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Chrome Extension Offers Trump-Free Browsing (usnews.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the out-of-sight dept.

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.

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  1. If I am using that plugin... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would not be able to see this interesting thread?

  2. Re:Liberals and willful ignorance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yea, I'm a left leaning liberal and this Chrome extension is just stupid. People blocking the front running candidate of one of our major political parties, wilful ignorance is the worst kind of ignorance.

  3. Jeter code, Trump code, bad link inside, oh my! by gavron · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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

  4. Can I have Jew propaganda free browsing too? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    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?