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Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

#51
post #13

My feed is filled with startup/VC/recruiter people liking vibe-orientated junk economics or junk science more than AI. Would love to see a browser like Orion or UBlock Origin just build this in as a feature.

> My feed is filled with startup/VC/recruiter people liking vibe-orientated junk economics or junk science more than AI.

so basically it's /r/linkedinlunatics/ ?

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

#52
post #32

Why do people use LinkedIn? I think I had an account for 10 years and all I got was recruiter spam. Coworkers all use it. For what I don’t know. None of them were hired from there.

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Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

#53

Just add this to uBlock origin: ``` linkedin.com##main#workspace section:has(div[componentkey*="container-update-list_mainFeed-lazy"]) ```

or via stylus

new style for feed -> paste:

[data-testid="mainFeed"]{display:none}

in full:

/* ==UserStyle==

@name www.linkedin.com/feed

@namespace github.com/openstyles/stylus

@version 1.0.0

@description A new userstyle

@author Me

==/UserStyle== */

@-moz-document url-prefix("https://www.linkedin.com/feed/")

{

    [data-testid="mainFeed"]{display:none}

}

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

#54
post #13

My feed is filled with startup/VC/recruiter people liking vibe-orientated junk economics or junk science more than AI. Would love to see a browser like Orion or UBlock Origin just build this in as a feature.

Or, and I know this is novel to the subliterate Wall Street types, just show me my network. I'll even give up on chronological feed if they'll just show me the people I want to see. I don't care what an HR Recruiter for a regional organic pet supply company in western Canada has to say about crypto.

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

#55

My version of a feed blocker was to delete my account. Realized i was getting no value by being there, finally just let it go.

I just unfolllowed everyone I’m connected to. It says, “Something went wrong,” and, “we’re having issues loading this page,” in the app; but, I still see suggested posts or some shit on the mobile web. I don’t see anything on the desktop site, however.

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

#57
post #22

I'd love to be able to filter the feed so it only shows me actual posts by my connections. I do not care about comments my connections made on strangers' posts, and I surely do not care about posts by strangers that my connections 'liked'. Anyone know if such a tool exists?

Built one 6 years ago that I gave up on https://github.com/mihailthebuilder/simplyfeed . The problem was that so many posts were filtered out that the feed would just show up empty.

I used a great one for FB until it stopped working, it blocked 95% of everything. Andrew Kelley had a good analogy in his Don't Take the Black Pill talk:

> the user-facing software of Facebook is categorically, fundamentally coercive. It's like an arbitrary code execution exploit running on our brains. Scrolling down is the program counter, and the content that pops up is the instructions.

https://andrewkelley.me/post/dont-take-black-pill.html#:~:te...

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

#58
post #12

The web, at least on the interface side, is really easy to customize these days. Agents are pretty good at spinning out Chrome extensions. e.g. you can easily reduce the intensity of feed-based UI by removing thumbnails, grayscaling, etc.

I spun up an extension to open links in incognito, something that wasn't possible with the native desktop webpage that would always refer you back to a linkedin link to redirect.

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

#60
post #32

Why do people use LinkedIn? I think I had an account for 10 years and all I got was recruiter spam. Coworkers all use it. For what I don’t know. None of them were hired from there.

It’s nice I can send LinkedIn instead of keeping my resume up to date and redoing it

I have gotten jobs through contractions on it, which materially improved my life.

And I have old acquaintances that I like to know what they’re up to/to keep options open.

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