Show HN: Feed Remover • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Feed Remover

#11

Post by zukerpie » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 6:18 PM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #7

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

The main problem that I have with extensions is: "It can: Read and change all your data on all websites" Having my own, local extension I don't have to actually think whether I added some sensitive stuff to be exempt from permissions or not.

Re: Show HN: Feed Remover

#12

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

sailorganymede wrote: post #9

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

Unhook looks nice, since it's only restricted to accessing YouTube. Strange that I didn't stumble upon it while looking for options.

Re: Show HN: Feed Remover

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Post by assim » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 6:29 PM UTC

zukerpie wrote: post #11

chrismorgan wrote: post #7

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

The main problem that I have with extensions is: "It can: Read and change all your data on all websites" Having my own, local extension I don't have to actually think whether I added some sensitive stuff to be exempt from permissions or not.

At this point of time, uBlock Origin is probably more trustworthy than some browser (read Chrome) themselves.

Re: Show HN: Feed Remover

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Post by quotz » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 6:35 PM UTC

I've been using an extension called News Feed Eradicator for like years now and its great! I was thinking of editing the code to put up like a math equation every time I need to disable it, but not sure if its open source. Seems like this tool might work!

Re: Show HN: Feed Remover

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Post by aghilmort » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 7:30 PM UTC

does this remove an entire feed or selective content in feed don't want to see?

Re: Show HN: Feed Remover

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Post by zukerpie » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 7:45 PM UTC

aghilmort wrote: post #15

does this remove an entire feed or selective content in feed don't want to see?

The current version just grabs the whole feed and removes it from the website. If you can program, it won't be hard for you to extend it so you can remove only the content you want.

Re: Show HN: Feed Remover

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Post by ge96 » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 7:47 PM UTC

zukerpie wrote: post #3

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.

Injected a custom stylesheet via extension vs. removing elements. I messed around with YouTube before and they can detect when their dom changes. Not to say it's breaking but I thought it was interesting.

Re: Show HN: Feed Remover

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Post by cvhashim04 » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 8:01 PM UTC

You might be cooking something here, seems useful when you're on certain websites that stream sports and won't allow you to close the chat windows while watching.

Re: Show HN: Feed Remover

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Post by Beijinger » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 8:05 PM UTC

Looks complex. What are the advantages compared to Social Fixer? https://socialfixer.com/

Re: Show HN: Feed Remover

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Post by zukerpie » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 8:10 PM UTC

Beijinger wrote: post #19

Looks complex. What are the advantages compared to Social Fixer? https://socialfixer.com/

The advantage that speaks to me, is that I control everything. I'm not sharing my data with the developer of the extension so it's one person less that I have to trust. I can also very easily adjust it to my needs, but I can program, so it's not valid case for everyone.