Jeff JohnsonNov 14, 2024

A semi-popular StopTheMadness feature request is to hide certain words or phrases on the web.

I'm not sure how it's supposed to work, though. The behavior is clear on a social network such as Mastodon or Twitter: hide the entire post containing the muted words. But the web in general doesn't come in such well-defined chunks.

If you visit a news story containing muted words, it's likely that the story is *about* the topic that you want to hide. Am I supposed to blank out the entire web page?

Show threadJeff JohnsonNov 14, 2024

Or do I just blank out the muted words and leave the rest of the web page intact? Both approaches seem somewhat pointless.

Indeed, either approach seems to draw undue attention to the blankness, the missing words. What you want is to not have your attention drawn to them.

Show threadDr. Juande Santander-Vela
@lapcatsoftware maybe only work on known search engines?
Nov 14, 2024 at 6:05pmWeb