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Sorry to hijack this thread but does anyone know of any extension that blocks / strips certain kinds of content. Use case: I am as guilty of mindless browsing

by zebnyc 6y ago

Sorry to hijack this thread but does anyone know of any extension that blocks / strips certain kinds of content. Use case: I am as guilty of mindless browsing as the next person but seeing news / click-bait headlines about certain celebs like the kardashians makes my blood boil.

colordrops 6y ago
If I may be frank it sounds like a deeper problem than browsing certain sites. May want to work on impulse control and contemplate why you are driven to these sites in the first place.
TheCapeGreek 6y ago
uBlock Origin has custom filters you can use. I'm guilty of the exact same thing (just not the same sites). Here's a sample of what I use: ||youtube.com/|$document,xhr ||youtube.com/?pbj*|$document,xhr The first blocks YT entirely. The second blocks URL loads (if you load the URL directly) AND SPA redirects. I mostly use these to use YT only for content I subscribe to and avoid the algorithms by impulse or accident. Note that not all SPAs work the same, so you'd have to do some digging. For example, 9Gag doesn't redirect from the same API endpoint but instead uses payload data, so it's more difficult to block that. You can still block direct pageloads, but not SPA redirects, so for sites like that you may want to just block the entire domain. I have a small list of content I try to avoid using this, mostly Reddit subs and "main" pages like r/all or r/popular. With this in mind, my ideal YT & reddit feeds are only content I explicitly want to see. Else, I'd recommend a feed curator like Feedly. You can set up custom site feeds and so you'll only see those. I started using it after Firefox killed its RSS. This way there's no algorithm except popularity of a given link from a feed, not what is on the feed at all. So the onus of balance is still on you, but way easier.

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Sorry to hijack this thread but does anyone know of any extension that blocks / strips certain kinds of content. Use case: I am as guilty of mindless browsing

by zebnyc 6y ago

colordrops 6y ago
If I may be frank it sounds like a deeper problem than browsing certain sites. May want to work on impulse control and contemplate why you are driven to these sites in the first place.
TheCapeGreek 6y ago
uBlock Origin has custom filters you can use. I'm guilty of the exact same thing (just not the same sites). Here's a sample of what I use: ||youtube.com/|$document,xhr ||youtube.com/?pbj*|$document,xhr The first blocks YT entirely. The second blocks URL loads (if you load the URL directly) AND SPA redirects. I mostly use these to use YT only for content I subscribe to and avoid the algorithms by impulse or accident. Note that not all SPAs work the same, so you'd have to do some digging. For example, 9Gag doesn't redirect from the same API endpoint but instead uses payload data, so it's more difficult to block that. You can still block direct pageloads, but not SPA redirects, so for sites like that you may want to just block the entire domain. I have a small list of content I try to avoid using this, mostly Reddit subs and "main" pages like r/all or r/popular. With this in mind, my ideal YT & reddit feeds are only content I explicitly want to see. Else, I'd recommend a feed curator like Feedly. You can set up custom site feeds and so you'll only see those. I started using it after Firefox killed its RSS. This way there's no algorithm except popularity of a given link from a feed, not what is on the feed at all. So the onus of balance is still on you, but way easier.