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Yeah, this has been a pretty obvious change in the recent months/years. I started noticing tweets in my timeline that were there because it was something someon
by amatecha 7y ago
Yeah, this has been a pretty obvious change in the recent months/years. I started noticing tweets in my timeline that were there because it was something someone I follow had replied to -- and these tweets were often "outrage-worthy" or otherwise click/flame-bait. I have since written my own Chrome extension to hide all "suggested" tweets of that sort (as well as hiding all sponsored tweets, and the "Favorite" button).
There's a pretty long list of CSS classes you can just toss a "display: none" on, but unfortunately other stuff can only be discerned by checking that certain elements are inside a given container. I had to start writing actual JS to evaluate the contents of the page and omit/delete stuff that way.
- chipperyman573 7y agoOut of curiosity, why did you hide the favorite button? Couldn't you just not click it?
- amatecha 7y agoYeah, but I just don't even want to see it. It's a feature I would prefer had never been added to Twitter (just like the other stuff I omit using my Chrome extension). Visual noise distracting from the stuff I care about seeing. :)
- nkrisc 7y agoIf you're never going to click it, why have it there when it can be hidden?
- 333c 7y agoCan you share a link to this extension?
- amatecha 7y agoUnfortunately it's just a folder on my computer -- I didn't want to pay the $5 to publish the extension on the Chrome Web Store (plus I speculate that Twitter would ban me if I publish it).
- bluetidepro 7y agoShould throw it on gitlab or github for free to share! :)
- vqdwj 7y agoYou can trivially hide an element permanently using any ad blocker of your choice.
- 333c 7y agoI didn't suggest that I couldn't; however I figured that the work had already been done in the extension.
- vqdwj 7y agoRight-clicking the heart button and clicking "block element" is much easier and faster than downloading an extension, reviewing its code, then overriding whatever safeguards Chrome has to make it hard to install 3rd party extensions. Just my two cents.
- 333c 7y agoI think you misunderstood me. I want to block everything other than tweets and retweets from my timeline. No "so-and-so liked" or "so-and-so follows."
- nyuszika7h 7y agoOn the new Twitter PWA, you can just switch from "Home" to "Latest Tweets", though it has a habit of automatically switching back once in a while. Also, they use React with obfuscated class names that change whenever they update the site so customizing the appearance (e.g. hiding the like button) is pretty hard to do.
- nerdponx 7y agoThey probably have some kind of text classifier that's trained on `tweet_contents -> engagement`, with some suitable engagement metric (dwell time, likes, replies, etc).