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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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      Post may contain irony: discontinue use if experiencing mood swings, nausea or elevated blood pressure.
    2. 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.

    3. 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?

    4. 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?

  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 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.

  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.

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

    I would not be able to see this interesting thread?

  5. 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