I don’t click on any political links, and never have, so search engines, FB etc have pretty much stopped offering me any such links.
alexfromapex’s RSS suggestion is a good one too — I primarily use RSS for finding articles.
Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
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Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#22How is it possible to know if something is political or not? It's a spectrum, sometimes things are highly political and other times only lightly or mildly so.
For eg.
Yesterday’s F1 race was won by xxx.
Here’s how you build a deck in backyard
Here’s how you tune your audio system.
Best ikea furniture hacks. I’m guessing OP just wants this kinda stuff.
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#23You can block explicitly political stuff (I've seen some filter lists floating around that purport to do this for Google), but it will be hard to block implicitly political stuff without blocking 50% of the internet. As an easy example: looking up where to get a booster shot for COVID-19? That's very political, at least in the US.
>without blocking 50% of the internet Your terms are acceptable
Now enjoy spending a vast amount of effort finding which 50% of the billions of web pages have political content.
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#24Maybe pihole regex based ruleset?
Or a list of sites that can be added. It may not block videos from YouTube, it might simply not let you visit particular websites.
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#25How is it possible to know if something is political or not? It's a spectrum, sometimes things are highly political and other times only lightly or mildly so.
For eg. Yesterday’s F1 race was won by xxx. Here’s how you build a deck in backyard Here’s how you tune your audio system. Best ikea furniture hacks. I’m guessing OP just wants this kinda stuff.
So, ads?
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#26You can block explicitly political stuff (I've seen some filter lists floating around that purport to do this for Google), but it will be hard to block implicitly political stuff without blocking 50% of the internet. As an easy example: looking up where to get a booster shot for COVID-19? That's very political, at least in the US.
>without blocking 50% of the internet Your terms are acceptable
Which 50% to block is the problem. Which one is politics which one is not is controversial. Is politics related only to what government is doing?Then what about religion? Is that not political? If all that is political is VIM vs EMACS or WINDOWS vs MACOS also considered political in IT circles? Its almost impossible to decide where a line can be drawn, but even if you want to draw a custom jagged line for yourself then its going to take you years to do so and even then it wont be perfect as human mindsets keep changing and what was apolitical a few years ago can suddenly become a very POLARIZING topic(eg.Vaccines).
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#27i would like to go even wider and just block all news sites as they tend to push political agendas from their prospective which mostly is filled with speculation that often causes unnecessary stress
> i would like to go even wider and just block all news sites as they tend to push political agendas from their prospective which mostly is filled with speculation that often causes unnecessary stress
i would like to go even wider and just block all news sites
Fixed it
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#28It is a mighty high privilege to be so comfortable in the world that you can safely ignore politics. I would recommend analyzing that comfort and what it says about your position.
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#29It is a mighty high privilege to be so comfortable in the world that you can safely ignore politics. I would recommend analyzing that comfort and what it says about your position.
It sounds like you have opinions about OP's position?
For clarity, perhaps it's worth just stating those.
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#30First you say 'news' but then you say 'news/content'. I assume you mean like political parties and left/right politics, and not any topic that's political, since discussions of personal privacy and control of information flow, like this post, are political.
I don't watch tv news, don' t check Google news. The only news i see is from the weird political PR hash tags on twitter on the explore page.
But generally i don't want to see/read stuff that's political news(stuff that a party is doing, some political goon getting arrested.etc) unless i am seeking for it