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Chrome Extension Offers Trump-Free Browsing (usnews.com)
Earthquake Retrofit writes: A new Google Chrome extension lets you remove mentions of Donald Trump from your browsing experience. Trump Filter scans websites for references to the Republican presidential candidate, showing a blank void in the place of Trump-related content. "I am doing this out of a profound sense of annoyance and patriotic duty," the extension's creator, Rob Spectre, writes on the Trump Filter website. "[I was not] put up to this by the Republican or Democratic Parties, the Obama Administration, my mother or any other possible sphere of influence." Trump Filter's code is open source and can be found on GitHub.
do they have one for hillary and burnie as well?
so a non-Trumpish browser can be used with this idea?
Blocking out the opposing point of view. How Liberal
... Who is blocking trump but not blocking ISIS? Who would sit there and say "I can deal with people that nail children to the wall while their mothers are raped behind them... but Trump... Too much."... Who does that?
The term "safe space" referred to offering a safe harbor to emotionally unstable people so they could calm down and then go back out and deal with the real world. The term has been coopted largely by dishonest hipster idiots that think they can apply the term to anything.
The world is the way the world is... Trump is admittedly very unusual and quite obnoxious. But on the grand scale of shit in this world... if you need a safe space from him... then you're not ready to leave your parents basement.
Just let it go.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
... and I thought that the Bush Derangement Syndrome was bad... Help! I'm being microagressed by Donald Drump!
In other news, manufacturers of fainting couches are reporting increased business.
Should be a way to negate this plug-in so that you only receive Trump related content.
CAP === 'incense'
I would not be able to see this interesting thread?
Who don't want to believe anything outside their groupthink circle.
Yes, block out mentions of the first reasonable candidate to come along in 30 years. This is so indicative of current liberal culture: "I don't like what you're saying, so I'll just prevent you from saying it."
Some nasty malware that only allows for the viewing of Trump related content. Sadly, I have encountered more than a few people who I doubt would notice.
Brought to you by Carl's Junior.
Hey, this is great for the many with their heads in the sand.
That's another thing that leftists tend to do: falsely accuse anyone they disagree with as being a "troll", "liar", "racist", "sexist", "feminist", "homophobe", "bully", etc., etc., etc..
This is exactly why I am voting Trump!
Why do conservatives have the majority in Congress? I can't hear you Liberals? It's the same analogy as not watching your pet gold fish get flushed down the toilet. Liberals can't face reality because they live in a make believe world.
What happens if I enable the plugin and then post a comment mentioning Tru_+&^~.%`!*{#^ [NO CARRIER]
Human Rights, Article 12: Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence
However, there are many things I would much rather be eliminated from my news: 1. All news of Apple's latest gadget release or feature and of the antics of Apple fanboys desperate to get it a day or two early. 2. All headshots of and analysis of the background and motivations of the latest suicide bombers. 3. All mention of Paul Ryan and his latest scheme to gut Social Security and Medicare.
I'd gladly pay to have Sanders blocked. Not a day goes by that I'm not inundated with the rampant Sanders circle-jerk.
you could always just use a web extension to change all mentions of Trump to Darth Vader.
"Vader slams Obama for 'Star Wars' quip | TheHill" is a much better google result.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
I need to block The Kardashians, The Jenners and Marjorie de Souza.
If it is open source, and provides for multilingual/localization, i can modify to suit the needs of the spanish speaking people.
*** Suerte a todos y Feliz dia!
Or Firefox's?
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Can it get rid of all Jenner/Kardashian/Cyrus/GaGa headlines as well?
"Waaah waaah waaah! I don't agree with Trump! I can't deal with any challenges to my beliefs without getting the vapors!"
Wow all this anger and acrimony at someone's personal opinion.... Why are STEM people who are supposed to be "educated" and "intelligent" so intolerant and belligerent to different points of view? This is not the tech culture I envisioned when I got into this 30 odd years ago.
If the left did not have double standards, they would have no standards at all.
It's fun when you have meta threads like this, and it's possible to get Trumpnutsnutses,
Really - what's the obsession?
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If only because he's the most vocal to the obvious in an otherwise (both parties) corrupted/hopeless system.. Not that I think trump will change/do anything any different, but he might(has his own wealth that is hard to remove).
Studies have shown that it doen't matter who you vote for, IF it did, it would be possible to make projections based on who gets elected.. regardless of who is, the projections remain the same; fluff/distraction topics get the attention but ultimately mean nothing.
I'm kind of liking the new Bennett Hasselton Blocker Slashdot seems to have installed. (Don't say his name three times, though.)
If they had one that would remove all Luke Plunkett content
How about one that removes all Hollywood stars? Honestly, they are far more irritating and distracting than Donald Trump.
Yes. Because the way to deal with people we find offensive/unbearable is to censor them from our reality and pretend they don't exist.
What? Are we fucking two years old or something?
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
What I really want is something to block all Disney's Star Wars marketing crap!
What Spectre could have done was make it so you can filter for whatever you desire...Hillary, Trump, football teams, Kardashions, whatever. Then, he wouldn't have the aura of a political tool about him and instead been seen as allowing people to "actively ignore" anything they find annoying.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
The original code references a "Jeter" filter -- presumably Derek Jeter. (see README.md).
The Github link in the code and in the github readme says to do this:
git clone https://robspectre/Trump-Filte...
Actually you want to include the host name and do this:
git clone https://github.com/RobSpectre/...
It would have been nice if instead of replacing almost all references to Jeter with Trump :)
the code would have allowed entering any number of character strings, such as
Trump, Clinton, Kardashian, and Fogle
Ehud
Yet you care enough to feel the need to explain to others why they shouldn't care at all.
You should have skimmed the summary, said, "meh, don't care", and moved along.
Totally hides not only trump content, but the whole darn page. Slashdot was completely blank, except for the header assets. No words at all. Truly a vanilla web experience.
You know, no more 'politically correct' bullshit, no more news articles about how a 'celebrity' said 'the n-word' (shock, horror!), no more pro immigration articles, no more anti-white "Shame on you for not wanting your children to grow up as a white minority in a third world hellhole" articles, no more Jewish promotion of abortion, homosexuality, and general degeneracy?
... showing a blank void in the place of Trump-related content.
Just like the x-ray showing the space in his chest where his heart should be ...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Because it is such a winning strategy to ignore one's opponent and pretend he doesn't exist.
Caution. It works too well so I deleted it. Any page with his name is completely blank.
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It's disgusting, I don't want to talk about it. No, it's too disgusting. Don't say it, it's disgusting, let's not talk, we want to be very, very straight up.
There's usually a Stylish or GreaseMonkey script for that. I'm kind of surprised they made this an extension instead of just making it a script. It'd probably be easier and more cross-platform as a GreaseMonkey script.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Slashdot is a shithole now, turn to lobste.rs
If I can block: kardashians, paris hilton, miley cyrus, justin beiber, ....and a dozen more. Should cut down clutter by 50%.
Can you do this for Hillary Clinton? Not fair for one & not the other...can't stand the liar & thief
Can you do this for Hillary Clinton? Not fair for one & not the other...can't stand the liar & thief
There we go again. Yet another of those tired 'Islam-is-not-at-fault' memes.
Islam is the axis around which all Jihadi activity revolves. Why did not just Osama, but all Jihadis target the US? It's b'cos they regard the Arabian peninsula as land where non Muslims have no business being there. Why do they believe that? B'cos MOHAMMED decreed that - it's there in the Hadiths. Non Muslims are not supposed to be in a position of influence in the Arabian peninsula. But since the US is, they targeted the US, despite the (misguided, IMO) support of the US for the Jihadi insurrections against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Now, while that is the primary goal of the Jihadis, they do have a secondary and tertiary goal as well. The secondary goal is to reconquer all territory that was EVER controlled by Islam - be it Spain, Israel, India, the stans (which though Muslims are too secularized for their tastes) and bring that under Islamic law. No matter what concessions various governments give them anywhere. In fact, giving them any concessions is irrelevant to THEIR goal, which is 'Islam is to rule, and not be ruled'. That's why Israel, despite giving Palis so much of what they want, is still under threat. It's why Muslims, despite getting Pakistan and Bangladesh, still want to reconquer India. It's why Islamic propaganda talks about reconquering Andalus - their name for Spain, and entering Rome, and surpassing what the Ottoman sultanate achieved in Europe.
Finally, there is the tertiary goal - which is to conquer territory that was never conquered. Islam doesn't define any limits to what it must conquer, and despite conquering half of both Asia and Africa, they are not satisfied. And they'll never be satisfied, since their goal is not religious but geopolitical: to bring the entire world under the banner of Islam, and have a Caliph to which all Muslim rulers worldwide pay obeisance. Much like the Samanid and Khwarezmid empires during the Abbasid Caliphate paid homage to the Caliphs in Baghdad before the Mongols came and overran everything for a while.
But back to this. The McCains and Grahams and Darinbobs ain't the only people who have 'studied' this: ordinary people worldwide - whether in the US, Europe, Russia, Israel, India, Australia and several other lands have observed all Jihadi activity since 9/11, and read up more about it, and come to the conclusion that it's dangerous to have Muslims around in non Muslim countries. Biggest reason - there is no way of telling a Jihadi Muslim from an Atheistic or an Agnostic Muslim, given the principles of taqaiya and mudarat that they are allowed to practice - which is essentially lying in the cause of furthering Islam. So talking about the US, a lot of people have gone through this, learnt about it and for THAT reason have negative views on Islam and Muslims. As a result, they wish to have representatives who reflect that view, and would at least put that out there to be debated. Problem w/ McCain and the Islamophobia crowd on both Right and Left - whether it's McCain, Obama, Hilary, O'Malley, Sanders, Lindsay Graham, Carly Fiorina, Jeb Bush, George Patakis, Rick Perry - is that they are too protective of the feelings of Muslims and the reputation of Islam and less concerned about the security of Americans. Which is their prerogative, but let them not try to silence people who differ from that islamocentric view of theirs.
that blocks anything Kardashian and that truly warped cross-dressing dude "Caitlyn"???
He's practically filtered already because the media don't want billions taken out of politics: they benefit from the massive spending, and therefore there's nothing to filter.
At last, a digital tool as useful as ad blockers.
'Trump' (as in "the trump card") is a popular Youtube/Twitch.tv streamer who mainly plays Blizzard's Hearthstone, a trading card game. He chose his online handle long before Donald Trump announced his intention to run for President, and in fact has stated that he supports liberal Presidential candidates.
I would install this extension, except that it would probably modify my Youtube watch list to contain a video titled "[Hearthstone] goes 12-0 in arena" by the user "".
Where is the Hillary Clinton blocking extension?
I would love to block all of those damn "TransParent" ads on Amazon.
To defeat Donald Trump you need to hear what he says to counter it, not run away from it or ignore it. Ignoring him lets him continue to run wild like our government.
If your beliefs and what you value is truly worth anything when you get offended by ONE man, then get off your lazy ass and DEFEND YOURSELF. Stop running and hiding from those that offend you and defend your beliefs.
To defeat the other side you also have to LISTEN to them to understand their arguments to be able to counter it. Or is your view on the issue at hand so weak that you can't take a little criticism or in Trump's case a loud argument that has more holes in it than swish cheese? Trump may be loud, derogatory, and downright mean and offensive, but as an opponent on actual issues facing the country he's got next to nothing to stand on. It's all fear mongering. He should actually be EASY to defeat when it comes to the real issues and best part is you don't have to make him look stupid since he does it so well by himself.
Ignoring the issues so don't have to get offended or 'just not have to look at it right now' doesn't do any good. You can't just assume it'll go away on its own. That's already been tried in 2015 and it DIDN'T WORK.
Why is it that people aren't afraid to join movements and protests, but once someone dares to challenge them and have a debate they cover their ears and refuse to listen? If they can't take any challenges or criticism then their movements and rallies are worthless.
~Written by someone who will likely get blocked by the next chrome extension.
yes, a leftist filter would make life like a a quiet gentle breeze in comparison.....