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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?
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.
I would not be able to see this interesting thread?
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.
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..
Reasonable he isn't.
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
Yes, block out mentions of the first reasonable candidate to come along in 30 years.
Because "build a wall and make Mexico pay for it" and "ban all Muslim travel to the US and keep a database of all Muslim US citizens" both just scream out "reasonable".
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
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.
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!
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
http://boingboing.net/2015/07/...
btw, I hate rich assholes who think too much of themselves. hopefully our country does not go full retard (any more than they already have) and elect this chump.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
He didn't say that he wanted to keep a database of all born American Muslims. The reporter said that and - in typical Trump fashion -, Trump ignored the reporter and kept talking about what he wanted to talk about (the wall and databases on people coming over illegally.)
Any more crazy you need to get out of your system? Sadly as a current liberal no one has yet explained to me how I can stop loons like you from saying anything :(
Really - what's the obsession?
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I'm kind of liking the new Bennett Hasselton Blocker Slashdot seems to have installed. (Don't say his name three times, though.)
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!!!
In a couple months version 457 will come up and it will only be using Chrome extensions.
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.
Nah, we should build a wall, but clearly it's going to be paid for mainly with funds from the Chinese mafia. (Things to make sure: 1. it's not actually in Mexico; 2. it's not a tower a mile up into the air with bushes hanging mid-air; 3. don't build it while high on maca.)
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
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.
... 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. . . .
As a European, he sure is my favorite candidate. I don't trust anyone but the hairpiece to actually drive the US economy fully and irreversibly into the ground. With that Bernie guy I was for a moment worried that you might actually elect someone who could have ideas that might just work, but since that bullet has been dodged, your election bickering is great popcorn cinema for us across the pond.
What's left is a bitch with zero clue in economics and a hairpiece whose knowledge in economics should ensure that the US will never again be a place that siphons away our best and brightest because working there should become a veritable nightmare.
It's almost like you WANT us to take over as the economic powerhouse of the world.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
30 years? So the last reasonable guy was ... Reagan? Really? The man who needed his Secret Service to find his ass because he couldn't do it with both his hands himself?
The last decent president your country had was Eisenhower. And the country would sure need someone like him again. Level headed, upright and not least someone who not only dabbles in international politics and military but actually KNOWS what he's doing in BOTH of them.
Though I absolutely doubt that he could even survive the primaries in this day and age. You're electing muppets and freaks, showmen and comedians. Flashy gimmicks trump over content, pithy phrases are more important than sensible answers.
I always thought that democracies always get the government they deserve. But what have the US done, what heinous, unforgivable crime have they committed, to deserve this?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Because it is such a winning strategy to ignore one's opponent and pretend he doesn't exist.
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.
Yup.
I gotta tell ya, there's absolutely zero chance of my voting for Trump but the narrative and lies (I've checked to see what was really said and what was quoted) are really, well, amusing (for lack of a better word). This indicates, to my mind, fear. Why are you guys so afraid of Trump that you need to lie, misrepresent, take out of context, and then continue on with denigrating comments towards those who would show you the truth?
There are many things, perfectly valid things, that should keep Trump out of office. There's no reason to make things up, misrepresent, or otherwise censor. The dude's an absolute moron who has no business being in charge of ordering dinner, never mind leading a country. I don't even have to make things up in order to say that. He has catastrophically failed at almost anything meaningful that he's attempted. He's offered no sound direction. He's indicated that he doesn't understand the issues. He's not interested in anything other than fame and fortune. He has a history of doing borderline mentally retarded things.
There. You don't even have to lie.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Download the code, fork it, use find/replace and change "trump" to "sanders." Import it through the uncompressed extensions thingy or upload it to share with others. You should probably make a nice little icon and change the name - and follow the license, I'm guessing it is GPL so you'll be fine - just fork it directly to GitHub or grab a copy and hack it locally and upload the code where you prefer.
I'm guessing 30 minutes of work. The longest part would be making an image 'cause my image making skills are akin to that of a five year old on a combination of LSD and meth. Which is to say, not very good.
In short, you're on fucking Slashdot. Make your own! You need KGIII to make it for you? If you wish to remain willfully ignorant then, by all means, you could at least try to make the tools to do so on your own.
Err, the same goes for the ninnies that want to apply it to Clinton, Cruz, Paul, and whoever else. It's probably not a whole lot more complicated then find/replace. I'm willing to be that *I* can figure it out. That's saying something...
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
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."
You must be having nightmares w/ the US walking all over you w/ this Obamanation economy
If I can block: kardashians, paris hilton, miley cyrus, justin beiber, ....and a dozen more. Should cut down clutter by 50%.
The second one is definitely reasonable, given what happened not just in San Bernardino, but several places throughout the US and the rest of the world since 2001. The first one - at least the building the wall' part is - to prevent ILLEGAL immigration. The 'make Mexico pay for it' is hyperbole, and I'd definitely like to see how he does that. But even if he doesn't, that's one of the things that our tax money SHOULD pay for.
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.
Nah. It's true, we were worried for a brief moment when he took office. Then we noticed the fine print in "yes we can", i.e. that being able to do something doesn't mean actually doing it. When we noticed that the magical negro cannot or doesn't want to (frankly, either is fine with me) make his promises/threats true, things got a lot more comfortable.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
At last, a digital tool as useful as ad blockers.
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.
Still much better then stupid austerity (that's a pleonasm right there).