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.
Haha, that should be definitely possible, but would require a bit more knowledge :)
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#22Cool! Just curious, why do you query 10 times per second for a feed? This seems kind of excessive and maybe a bit bad for battery life, especially since this could be running in several tabs at once.
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#23Cool! Just curious, why do you query 10 times per second for a feed? This seems kind of excessive and maybe a bit bad for battery life, especially since this could be running in several tabs at once.
This is just the straightforward idea of waiting for some element to appear on the website. But once the element is found, this thing stops. It won't stop for YouTube if you are on Facebook though but it's just a first implementation and it could actually be very easy to recognize the site. Thanks for the helpful suggestion!
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#24Content 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
LinkedIn:
.scaffold-finite-scroll__content { display: none }
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#25Cool! Just curious, why do you query 10 times per second for a feed? This seems kind of excessive and maybe a bit bad for battery life, especially since this could be running in several tabs at once.
Added a quick domain check to avoid the issue that you've mentioned :)
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#26Such 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…
There isn't really a special protection if you install a extension in developer mode.
More the opposite because you have to totally trust the source.
Web stores search for certain malware patterns and get at leat some.
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#27Cool! Just curious, why do you query 10 times per second for a feed? This seems kind of excessive and maybe a bit bad for battery life, especially since this could be running in several tabs at once.
Added a quick domain check to avoid the issue that you've mentioned :)
I believe you could use a sub tree mutation observer instead of polling.
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#28For YouTube there's a great plugin called DFToutube (Distraction free YouTube)
One of my favourite plugins of all time. YouTube becomes what I want it to become; just a pure search engine for videos.
If you enable everything in the config, it's beautiful.
Source: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/df-tube-distractio...
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
There isn't really a special protection if you install a extension in developer mode. More the opposite because you have to totally trust the source. Web stores search for certain malware patterns and get at leat some.
You're not wrong, but in this case the total source code is like 30 lines long so it's not hard to verify what it's doing yourself
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#30I'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!
News Feed Eradicator is open source:
https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator/
(and indeed great)