Great idea. Could be cool to blacklist people. Say you’re reading an article and think to yourself “damn, that man or woman is a muthafucka!” Then you just highlight their name, right click, and bam! The summaremoved ain’t be seen agin.

I also have several projects where I’m the only user, but I wouldn’t let that stop me from adding features for fun and exercise.

It’s not for me though. But I want to stress it’s not because I dislike it, but I find that seeing something blurred almost highlights something that’s gonna annoy me is here. Otherwise my brain would just kinda blank it. Good job tho, and I hope folks here are more interested.

Yes, dammit. In fact this is the final nudge I needed to reinstall Firefox after many years. Yours will be one of the first plugins in the install queue. Thank you, good sir.

I feel like any time you’re on establishment media, it’s all just an ad for the billionaires who own and control the outlets.

This is exactly what I need! Thank you. I’m sick of hearing about these few people, who think their word is better than ours because of their wealth and inheritance.

How about instead of blocking them it offers recipe and serving suggestions for rich people?

My only request would be to have a version that not just blurs the parts but completely removes the DOM elements where they are mentioned.

Will you be providing how many times each rich asshole was blocked, perhaps a monthly report? Because that’s the icing on the cake.

It’s in a bit of a strange position.

It blurs the Images, but doesn’t block the article or text?

Maybe for some people it can mean something, tho for me it’s a bit of a not interesting feature. Like what is the purpose of bluring the image if I still get spammed with the article?

And this may be the real issue where you didn’t get traction. The feature pretty useless for the majority of people.

I like the idea behind this extension and would love to use it. However, I would really appreciate the ability to tweak the blocklist. Not that I enjoy seeing or hearing about Trump everyday, but I do want to stay in the loop with the ongoing court cases he's getting rammed with. If I never hear or see Elon, Zuck, etc. again then I'd be happy.

I love the concept!

For me, the button of the extension doesn't work to toggle it on or off, so I can't find a way to view the blurred text without disabling the extension completely. So that would be a bit frustrating - sometimes I might want to read it, as in this post. If it's upgraded with an easy on/off toggle I'll probably start using it. :)

Blurred text also makes me somewhat curious by nature - a feature request would be to keep blurring images, but instead of blurring the text just changing the name of the person into "some asshole" or something like that. So that you get the substance of the headline without having to deal with the people.

If you could find a way to funnel the blocked content’s address to pi-hole it would just never load which is better imo

your list of aliases could be turned into regexp’s couldn’t they ? To shorten/simplify and then be turned into a config

Back when Reddit was good because Apollo still worked, I had all kinds of keywords blocked (Trump, Elon, John Cena, Kardashian). The idea of being able to bring that to the entire experience of browsing the web is very appealing.

Bro I thought this was satire!💀This is real??? I need this plugin!

Very cool add on. I don’t really browse on a standard browser usually, but this is something I would add to my browser if I did. I feel the same as you, tired of billionaires thinking their hoarded wealth makes their opinions more valid or worth hearing.

Can it auto unblock when the news is that they are going to prison? I want to read and re-read those types of stories

I think you should be able to block people and companies. I’m tired of hearing about Tesla, people hyping Tesla, people doubting Tesla, bragging, complaining, questioning. I’m just done hearing about it.

I need the opposite haha... Gimme content for !eattherich

I love this! I also wouldn’t mind to never hear from many of these buttholes again. Though I don’t mind hearing from Gates, so maybe would be nice to choose which ones.

Thank you for this, @[email protected]! I added this extension to my Firefox install because I am really sick of the same thing.

i like this idea because when i go to read the news i do not care about what rich people are doing.

Create a filter for uBO maybe? I run a number of specialized filters in uBO. A “block the rich filter” would be good. The advantage there is content can be removed from view completely, not just blurred.

Lolz, it is crazy what one needs to do to prevail sanity these days

I have been looking for this but for a customized list of celebrities and politicians whose opinions carry little weight in the real world.

Is there a Chrom[e/ium] version by chance?

Count me in

Instead of simply blurring them, it’d be technically possible to feed their images through a stable diffusion prompt, like “humanoid lizards” or “frantic lemmings”…
Also, I understand that a large language model could be made to rewrite articles about them with a matching prompt.

That would be very silly, of course.

I’ve always believed it would be useful to have a thing like this but for brand logos.

But instead of blurring or blocking the brand logo like an adblocker what it does instead is show you the face of the top shareholder in that brand. Remove the brands and show the assholes that own them. Where it’s not a single person you replace that brand with the name of the hedgefund or bank that owns the investment.

Isn’t it important to keep tabs on what the obscenely powerful are up to? I.e. to try to hold them accountable, to be informed on what you’re protesting and criticizing, to prepare for what they’re going to do next that may affect you?

This is awesome. I made a block list for all the Trump domains for similar reasons.