Show HN: Feed Remover

#1

Post by zukerpie » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 4:54 PM UTC

Your own browser extension to get rid of unwanted social media feed! 5 minutes to setup, hours saved.

Show HN: Feed Remover
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#2

Post by ge96 » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 5:31 PM UTC

CSS override works too

I feel the same though, those thumbnails steal your attention when you go to YT to do something

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#3

Post by zukerpie » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 5:36 PM UTC

ge96 wrote: post #2

CSS override works too I feel the same though, those thumbnails steal your attention when you go to YT to do something

Do you mean the local overrides from the console? Or something else? It would be cool to learn about some different approach.

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#4

Post by jawmes8 » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 5:50 PM UTC

Definitely going to try this for StackExchange

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#5

Post by theptip » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 5:55 PM UTC

If I’m following this correctly, Brave supports something similar natively:

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018039072-How...

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#6

Post by zukerpie » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 5:59 PM UTC

theptip wrote: post #5

If I’m following this correctly, Brave supports something similar natively: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018039072-How...

You are right. I'm using Brave and didn't know about it until now. I will give it a try as well.

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#7

Post by chrismorgan » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 6:05 PM UTC

Content blockers like uBlock Origin can do this. The two included in this extension become these cosmetic filters:

  www.facebook.com##[role="feed"]
  www.youtube.com###contents

Re: Show HN: Feed Remover

#8

Post by shepherdjerred » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 6:09 PM UTC

Such a good idea. Do you have any plan to polish this up and publish to an extension store?

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#9

Post by sailorganymede » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 6:12 PM UTC

I use a mix of Unhook and Focus Time to get rid of the feeds that annoy me the most.

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#10

Post by zukerpie » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 6:15 PM UTC

shepherdjerred wrote: post #8

Such a good idea. Do you have any plan to polish this up and publish to an extension store?

The whole point is to actually have installed locally so you don't share any data with the developer of the extension. The problem with extensions is that in many cases the access that you give them is way too broad. If you install it by yourself, you control everything. The only thing that I thought about is maybe some kind of configurator that would allow you to pick some already existing rules that the users would share through github.