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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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.