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Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

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Post by petesergeant » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

wxw wrote: 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.

Been adding ad-hoc OFX export to more than one bank's site using Greasemonkey for exactly this. Scroll the page, suck up the transactions, I no longer need to wait on the bank to do shit properly. I am reasonably sure if someone can bundle all of these pieces up, there's a small subscription service in letting people configure the web through a chat window.

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

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Post by mmarian » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

apparent wrote: post #14

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.

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

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Post by rrr_oh_man » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

apparent wrote: post #14

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?

I use this: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/linkoff-filter-and-...

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

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Post by mmarian » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

MarkMarine wrote: post #6

I’ll never understand why LinkedIn is making these product choices. They have a legitimate moat, I and basically every other tech worker is exclusively on LinkedIn. They devalue their product by chasing engagement in service of ads, while allowing things like juicebox to scrape and steal their most valuable asset. This is short term, make it to next quarter thinking. You couldn’t pay me to use their AI product, they…

Most people genuinely want that, even if they say they don't. It's the only reason I can think of why low-value posts get so many likes.

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

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Post by mmarian » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

petesergeant wrote: post #10

These ublock rules work badly, but OK, if you don't want to install an extension: www.linkedin.com##[data-lazy-mount-id] www.linkedin.com##div[data-lazy-mount-id][data-component-type="LazyColumn"] LinkedIn makes this hard for some reason, and keeps updating how it works. The above is functional but also breaks some stuff.

My suspicion is that it's by design, to fight scrapers and extensions like this one.

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

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Post by rrr_oh_man » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC

andy99 wrote: post #7

I used to waste lots of time scrolling LinkedIn, I don’t really know why as it was never great but sometimes you learned something interesting. Now I find it the opposite of addictive because of how bad it is. It’s just AI slop, both the copy and the pictures, there’s virtually no hope of anything engaging. Maybe it’s just me, it feels like AI has broken their algorithm, there’s nothing at all worth showing. Even the…

The best Linkedin feature these days is the intrusive "DOWNLOAD OUR APP" popup on mobile. That makes me close the tab & browser 10/10 times.

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

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Post by tumidpandora » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 6:01 PM UTC

this was much needed, thank you.. the feed is a massive distraction

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

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Post by blancotech » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

This is still my preferred way on Safari, no extensions needed. It uses custom style sheets in the Safari > settings menu. https://x.com/BlancoTech/status/2061521432085955039

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

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Post by specproc » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 6:04 PM UTC

apparent wrote: post #14

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?

I'm not at my computer, but I've got such a thing. It's a ViolentMonkey script, something like LinkedIn Sponsor Block or similar. Does just what you need.

Re: LinkedIn Feed Blocker

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Post by joshdavham » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC

There's another way to get this exact same effect without a chrome extension and requires two steps:

1. Change your "Preferred feed view" to "Most recent posts" here: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/preferred-...

2. Unfollow every connection (N.B., this doesn't mean remove connection, just that you won't see their posts).

If you do this, it wipes your feed clean and will literally display "Something went wrong" where your feed used to be.

This has made LinkedIn truly blissful for me, but this only seems to work on the LinkedIn web app on my PC. Doesn't work on the mobile web app for some reason...