I would like to block all political news online from showing up while reading/researching stuff online. What are tips, methods and techniques that i can employ to block such news/content?
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?
#2How 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.
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#3I would pay for this
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#4You 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.
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#5Just get offline
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#6You 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
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#7i 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
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Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#9First 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.
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#10You 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
It’s not as high as I’d like, but I’ll take it.