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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. good but.... by indy_Muad'Dib · · Score: 5, Funny

    do they have one for hillary and burnie as well?

    1. Re:good but.... by hey! · · Score: 4, Informative

      do they have one for hillary and burnie as well?

      There's only so much you can expect an extension to do; it can't read your mind.

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    2. Re:good but.... by bluelip · · Score: 2

      Sounds like Rob Spectre hates America too. Rob, if you're reading this, shoot me your info. I'll buy you a first-class one-way ticket out of the country you hate so much.

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    3. Re:good but.... by will_die · · Score: 4, Insightful

      No need for one for Bernie since the press is already ignoring him. He gets more coverage on fox news than sites pushing for a democrate president.

    4. Re:good but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      When Bernie said that the illegal Clinton email server and the illegal use of a private (and illegal) server wasn't anything of importance, Bernie signed his defeat statement and gave it to Hilliary. Bernie is only in for the drama and the show. Bernie has already given up.

      Regrettably, the Bern-ites haven't figured that out yet. Are they in denial?

    5. Re: good but.... by konohitowa · · Score: 2

      Your mean a place with opinions different from yours? I'm pretty sure it happened when they put it on that internet thingamajig.

    6. Re:good but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      "Dirty Lying Rich White Career Politician"

      Just a FYI but that also applies to most of the republican field of candidates.

      Three of the top 4 Republicans aren't white.

      That's gotta hurt, doesn't it?

      I guess you're going to go all superior and claim they aren't "authentic" blacks or Hispanics?

    7. Re:good but.... by unixisc · · Score: 2

      Except that Trump's appeal is way beyond the GOP. The people you describe above have mainly rallied to the likes of Cruz and Carson, and others below. They make up the bulk of the GOP base. While Trump does have evangelists, libertarians and Tea Party activists, his gap w/ them over his rivals is actually LOWER than his overall margin in the GOP.

      Reason being that he has attracted Democrat Blue Collar workers - mainly the Union guys - to his rallies. THOSE are the people who throng his rallies - not the Bible Thumping, pro-Life activists. The latter had previously mainly rallied behind Carson, and since the latter's statements about that CO shooting incident, Cruz. Trump's support comes from the Union guys who see Obama and the entire Democrat establishment giving them the shaft in preference to the Environmentalists worried about climate change drowning out the Maldives and a few islands in the Pacific, while signing the TPP and the Trans America Highway and a whole boatload of other measures that put foreign workers above Americans. Those people would NEVER vote for a Bush, a Christie or even a Cruz: they are more the type who'd vote for a Perot, a Buchanan, a Ventura or this time, a Trump.

      Trump's support on the Right comes from Conservatives who've seen themselves get betrayed by the likes of Bush, McConnell, Boehner and now Ryan. Some of that support goes to Cruz as well - particularly from those who are unconvinced about the authenticity of Trump's conversion to Conservatism. For everybody who's been screaming about Trump rallying the GOP base, one would think that all Conservatives would be solidly behind him. Yet, some of the most influential Conservatives are split on him. Brit Hume & Charles Krauthammer oppose him, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter support him, while Debbie Schlussel sits on the fence about him. That's hardly what it would be like if his support was just Conservative.

    8. Re:good but.... by Darinbob · · Score: 2

      The concept seems wrong. The country is already full of people hidden in bubbles, refusing to hear or even acknowledge contrary views. Then they walk around thinking the entire country has the same views they do, or else they split the country into those who they agree with and the enemy. People need to hear contrary views.

      Blocking Trump, Hillary, or Bernie is counter productive (though see the Christmas special of Black Mirror). What happens if Trump wins the election and all these people say "Trump, but I never even saw his name in any of the news, if I had known he was so popular I'd have gotten out and voted"?

    9. Re: good but.... by indy_Muad'Dib · · Score: 3, Insightful

      If you want to see liberals acting stupid the comments on Huffpo are the best place.

      you've never been on reddit have you?

    10. Re:good but.... by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 2

      The DNC candidates, all three of them, are white. Dirty, lying, rich, career politicians.

      The Republicans, white non-politican (Trump), Two Hispanic Politicians, a Black Neurosurgeon, a White woman. Granted, they're all rich (Rubio maybe not). So there are at least three non-politicians running

      The Left loves to cry "diversity", and mock the GOP for being "white" but this election cycle, there is nothing clearer than the fact that the DNC Plantation is in full force. People of Color need not apply. You may now proceed with crowning Hillary your candidate, because she is a woman (no other reason comes to mind).

      Meanwhile, I'll continue to vote for people who can't win, simply because I won't vote for people who don't deserve to win.

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  2. Liberals and willful ignorance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Blocking out the opposing point of view. How Liberal

    1. Re:Liberals and willful ignorance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Right... and the Liberals aren't responsible for doubling the debt in the last 7 years

      Well, the Republicans control Congress and the purse strings, so you tell me who's responsible? We had surpluses under Clinton. As soon as Bush took office, that changed quickly.

      the complete mess that the Middle East became with premature pullout of troops

      We never should have had troops there to start with. Thanks, Conservatives.

      the mess that the healthcare industry is in

      The only people that are complaining are on the far right.

      It's all obviously Bush' fault.

      No, it goes all the way back to Reagan, and probably much further. Bush was a moron but he didn't mess it all up himself.

      Hillary? The epitome of Rich White Corrupt Career Politician?

      I don't really care for her either, never have. We don't need any more Bush's or Clintons in the White House.

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

      Actually, the Republican echo chamber is much more effective than anything the Libs have. The only way conservative ideals make any sense at all is if you have a bunch of other idiots that are as stupid as you are pumping their fists in agreement with you. The moment logic is applied, it all falls apart. The solution? Don't try to apply logic.

      Greece.

      Venezuela.

      Detroit.

      Do tell us about "liberal" and "socialist" logic: tax and spend your way to prosperity.

      Explain to us how it wasn't a "liberal" in NY that tried to ban large sodas - all because it isn't a "liberal" idea that the government knows what's best for everyone. Oh no, "liberals" don't know what's best for everyone, nor do they think they're better then everyone because "they care".

      Tell us that the stupidity of "microagressions" and "check your privilege" and campus speech codes aren't from "liberals".

      Or are you going to pull the "no true liberal" bullshit?

      After you've arrogated to yourself what "caring" means? Such that anyone who has any type of policy difference is a "racist" or "sexist" or some kind of "hater". Because "liberals" are better then everyone, right?

      Echo chambers? Do you have the balls to tell us what happened to the 2000 Democrat VP candidate after he expressed some policy differences with "liberal" orthodoxy?

      It's "liberals" who want to pitch the First Amendment overboard because someone had the temerity to actually criticize Hillary! before an election - all the while lying about it by saying all they want is "money out of politics" - while hypocritically taking hundreds of millions of dollars a year in campaign contributions from forced-membership public employee unions.

      Nah, you're a "liberal". You don't have any balls. That's why you're willing to utterly ignore the Constitution - guns are skeery to "liberals".

    3. 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.

    4. Re:Liberals and willful ignorance by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: 2, Informative

      Right... and the Liberals aren't responsible for doubling the debt in the last 7 years

      Well, the Republicans control Congress and the purse strings, so you tell me who's responsible? We had surpluses under Clinton. As soon as Bush took office, that changed quickly.

      The surplus under Clinton was because we had a Republican Congress that wasn't afraid of telling the President "No.". So tell me who's responsible for budgets.

      The current Congressional leadership is so afraid they'll be called racists by your open-minded liberals they can't piss without getting White House approval first. Add to that, today the Republican party wants most of the same things the Democrat party wants, just with a different set of voters.

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    5. Re:Liberals and willful ignorance by BillCable · · Score: 3, Informative

      Well, the Republicans control Congress and the purse strings, so you tell me who's responsible? We had surpluses under Clinton. As soon as Bush took office, that changed quickly.

      We had surpluses under Clinton up until the dot.com bubble burst. The government ran deficits the last three years Clinton was in office. The projections of surpluses going on forever were all based on fantasy.

    6. Re:Liberals and willful ignorance by dywolf · · Score: 2

      wait, so now your just completely ignoring that the bulk of that money was spent fixing the economy that imploded under bush, and financing the wars that started under him too? your just completely ignoring that lil ol' recession now, and the extended summer camps in Iraq and Afghanistan? what buffoonery.

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    7. Re:Liberals and willful ignorance by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 2

      The Economy under Bush failed primarily because of 9/11 and liberal mortgage laws passed by Frank Dodd under Clinton to create the whole sub-prime mortgage fiasco. The Bush wars didn't help either. But if you're going to go down that road, then blaming six bad years under Bush as all Bush's fault, then we can blame all seven years of Obama economy on Obama.

      OR you can realize that it is really the whole R/D cabal that is to blame, and realize that both parties are "fixing it until it is really broken". Why we think the Politicians who are bought and paid for are capable of doing what is right for ALL Americans is beyond me.

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  3. Safe spaces... by Karmashock · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... 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.

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    1. Re:Safe spaces... by N1AK · · Score: 4, Insightful

      ... 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?

      Me for starters, even when you poorly try to misconstrue the position like a true keyboard warrior. Nothing about the coverage of Trump is news; it can all be summed up as "Populist ideologue says something half-considered and offensive" (depressingly similar to what a lot of ISIS's populist ideologues spout I imagine, though admittedly with less calls for beheadings). You don't appear to be responding to someone who mentioned safe spaces, or a summary that mentions safe spaces, so god knows why you went on a rant about hipsters. You also got the origin of the term wrong, which is odd given how much its imagined misuse bothered you.

    2. Re:Safe spaces... by thegarbz · · Score: 2

      ... 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?

      Personally I have not seen ISIS propaganda, and definitely I've not seen anyone nailed to the wall or raped. Trump however I can't seem to get away from, and I'm not even bloody American.

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

    I would not be able to see this interesting thread?

  5. Re:Head In Sand by Nidi62 · · Score: 2

    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".

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  6. Slashdot Extension by SenorPez · · Score: 2

    I'm kind of liking the new Bennett Hasselton Blocker Slashdot seems to have installed. (Don't say his name three times, though.)

  7. Missed Chance by sycodon · · Score: 2

    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.

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    1. Re:Missed Chance by sycodon · · Score: 2

      That's why he has the aura of a Political Tool.

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  8. 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

  9. Tried it! by originalGMC · · Score: 2

    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.

  10. Re:Head In Sand by KGIII · · Score: 2

    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.

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