I want to block accounts of the promoted tweets I get. If enough people did that...
I tried that for a long time. The exercise got old after a while.
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#22Edge has a store?
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#23Space Karen free labor task force... assemble! Form of... a Chrome extension.
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#24I want to block accounts of the promoted tweets I get. If enough people did that...
Am I the only person this works for?
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#25Space Karen free labor task force... assemble! Form of... a Chrome extension.
Well actually, we're the Twitter Product Decisions - Good For Their Bottom Line (yes, that turned out well), Bad For Humans Who Like Their Brain To Feel Good free labor task force, Est. 2018 [0] when Old Twitter started mixing algorithmic tweets into the main timeline (and when we discovered moving Retweets out of the main timeline is a _massive_ QoL bump)
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#26I want to block accounts of the promoted tweets I get. If enough people did that...
There is a longstanding Tweak New Twitter bug (forgot to add a case clause to a switch statement) which someone finally found this week and submitted a PR for, which was accidentally causing all promoted tweets to be hidden. Handing my programmer card in as we type.
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#27Author here, this the website where you go to get customer support from Google, right? /s Was everyone who reviews extensions at Google part of the cohort who were suddenly given a cardboard box and shown the door recently? The extension has been blowing up in Japan over the weekend (user numbers more than doubled from 29,000 to 68,000 over the last few days) so I internationalized it to add a Japanese locale (and in…
my experience with shipping updates to the google chrome store is that you typically are waiting days if not weeks, depending on the time of year. 24 hours seems incredibly fast! hopefully it will get approved soon, good luck!
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#28The Elon acquisition forcing me to finally break my Twitter habit was awesome. Whenever I go back, I started to wonder why I spent so much time there. Mastodon has been positive in other ways - I'm posting less there than I did on Twitter, and the people there are generally less toxic overall (though I've been carefully curating who I follow this time around). I think we'll continue to see social media fracture and f…
> Whenever I go back, I started to wonder why I spent so much time there
What about same question posed to yourself (and myself), but for this website (Hacker News) instead of Twitter? :)
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#29I don't want to use another extension. If it could be done inside uBlock Origin, that's about the length I'm willing to go. Barring that, I've found myself simply going to twitter.com far, far less on desktop. And not at all on mobile.
It can't be done with uBlock because Twitter randomized pretty much all DOM element class names. You really need to parse the content, then climb up the tree and trim grand/parent nodes to remove all the junk. Used to be much easier few years ago with descriptive class names, but they changed that. * I'm not the OP, but I made a similar extension.
It's a React Native for Web app, so it's kinda like a reverse Tailwind - you write your styles using the usual CSS property names (instead of having to learn new shorthand names for all of them), then it deduplicates everything at build time and generates one-property-per-selector class names.
They've handily left a bunch of data-testid attributes on some of the major elements you need to identify, like the primary column.
Since it's a React app, manually removing stuff from the DOM will either have your changes get blown away the on the next render, or cause issues on the next render. A good trick is to add your own descriptive classes to for the current screen so you can limit the scope of some of the incredibly gnarly CSS selectors you'll need to use to hide things.
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#30The Elon acquisition forcing me to finally break my Twitter habit was awesome. Whenever I go back, I started to wonder why I spent so much time there. Mastodon has been positive in other ways - I'm posting less there than I did on Twitter, and the people there are generally less toxic overall (though I've been carefully curating who I follow this time around). I think we'll continue to see social media fracture and f…
> Whenever I go back, I started to wonder why I spent so much time there What about same question posed to yourself (and myself), but for this website (Hacker News) instead of Twitter? :)
Personally, I find the average quality of discussion on Hacker News to be much higher than the average quality of discussion on Twitter. There are fewer incentives for flame wars, and fewer bots trying to get me to buy random T-shirts.