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Personal customized filters are a great idea! Congrats! Here's something that might help others. On Whatsapp groups some users can become obnoxious, and one ca

by bambax 5y ago

Personal customized filters are a great idea! Congrats! Here's something that might help others. On Whatsapp groups some users can become obnoxious, and one can fall into the trap of responding to their trolling. Yet AFAIK it's impossible to hide contributions from a given user in a group; one can only leave the group. When using WhatsApp in the browser, a uBlock filter can hide contributions from a given user like this: web.whatsapp.com##div.message-in:has(div.copyable-text[data-pre-plain-text*="name_of_user"]) This hides text messages (even successive ones where the username isn't displayed) but doesn't hide messages with only images or other media. For those it's more difficult as the username is in a span that has no consistent characteristics; the username has to be unique and complete in order to not trigger false positives. Or maybe there's a better way. Suggestions welcome.

xvello 5y ago
That's the kind of filters I started this project for! I would not accept this template in the project though, as I am not willing to endorse usage of Facebook/Meta's websites. This is listed in the project limitations in https://letsblock.it/help/contributing https://letsblock.it/help/contributing
- _vbnz 5y ago
  Yet you include Google and YouTube? WhatsApp is hugely popular in Europe and Asia, I don't see including a filter as an endorsement.
  - tyilike 5y ago
    Including a filter for a platform could be seen as criticism. "Gotta use third party custom filters to make the platform useable."
    - EricE 5y ago
      Or how about not trying to read intentions into peoples actions (or reading their minds for that matter) and just providing a non-biased service? The hubris in "That's the kind of filters I started this project for! I would not accept this template in the project though" is just breathtaking. At least I now know not to waste my time with a project that can have such arbitrary and capricious restrictions based on the founders whims and personal biases. Maybe I don't like Facebook/Meta either but have something that requires their use - wouldn't being able to filter out the worst aspects of them still have significant value? Even more value? Pretending things will cease to exist just because you don't like them is beyond juvenile levels of reasoning.

by bambax 5y ago

xvello 5y ago

That's the kind of filters I started this project for! I would not accept this template in the project though, as I am not willing to endorse usage of Facebook/Meta's websites. This is listed in the project limitations in https://letsblock.it/help/contributing https://letsblock.it/help/contributing

_vbnz 5y ago
Yet you include Google and YouTube? WhatsApp is hugely popular in Europe and Asia, I don't see including a filter as an endorsement.
- tyilike 5y ago
  Including a filter for a platform could be seen as criticism. "Gotta use third party custom filters to make the platform useable."
  - EricE 5y ago
    Or how about not trying to read intentions into peoples actions (or reading their minds for that matter) and just providing a non-biased service? The hubris in "That's the kind of filters I started this project for! I would not accept this template in the project though" is just breathtaking. At least I now know not to waste my time with a project that can have such arbitrary and capricious restrictions based on the founders whims and personal biases. Maybe I don't like Facebook/Meta either but have something that requires their use - wouldn't being able to filter out the worst aspects of them still have significant value? Even more value? Pretending things will cease to exist just because you don't like them is beyond juvenile levels of reasoning.