This is an alternative solution but I would recommend getting an RSS reader because controlling where you consume content from can greatly reduce how much political content you’re exposed to
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?
#12Have you tried a blindfold? Or sticking your head in the sand?
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#13What's political?
"Humans are the likely culprit of rising global average temperatures" Is that political?
"COVID-19 vaccine side effects" Is that political?
"June 4th, 1989" Is that political?
"Russia" Is that political?
"Q" Is that political?
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#14this is more a hygiene and habits question . sit down weekly and review your habits like where you are spending your time and what apps you are wasting time on . then prune the low quality experiences .
you’ll also have to be willing to cut some good things out . like uninstalling twitter which is probably 90% unhealthy and 10% constructive content
you don’t need to read news or politics more than once a month . most of it is drama and regurgitation rather than developments and trends
as for tools you can use adblock custom filters to hide political banners but the ROI is low . install pihole and you can blacklist domains . the awesome lightweight list links to text only news which can help reduce news cravings
https://github.com/mdibaiee/awesome-lite-websites
when you do a review ask yourself “is this edifying “ and if not delete it
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#15Have you tried a blindfold? Or sticking your head in the sand?
you’re implying that news is informative but it’s at best soap opera and usually kayfabe .
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#16this is more a hygiene and habits question . sit down weekly and review your habits like where you are spending your time and what apps you are wasting time on . then prune the low quality experiences . you’ll also have to be willing to cut some good things out . like uninstalling twitter which is probably 90% unhealthy and 10% constructive content you don’t need to read news or politics more than once a month . most…
here is an example filter ruleset and you can find others on github. https://github.com/AllanChain/politics-filter
it’s nascent but with a few more contributors it should be usable
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#17More than likely you’d need to write your own plug-in and start filtering things, have bots scan front pages of top news sites and their political sections and help guide the ML that way.
It’s not easy, but I’m sure it’s doable as the big G and others have done much more sophisticated analysis.
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#18Perhaps a web extension could block such content, in a similar style to ad blocking.
Alternatively, you could utilise a closed set of resources: Dev docs, offline manuals, StackOverflow, man pages, arxiv, wikipedia, etc.
Wide platforms appear to inevitable blue the lines.
Re: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
#19How 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.
A massive and continually updated discriminative dataset used to train a language classification model. Build and update continually via mturk or similar and retrain daily. Audit raters (itr) periodically to ensure they're finding signal or at least not disagreeing.