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No News (is Good News!) browser extension for Google Chrome.

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Block Entries from Social Sites

PeteMichaud opened this issue · comments

This is a feature idea -- for given sites like reddit and facebook, you can embed news stories from the blacklisted sources. This plugin could scan those sites for entries that link to blacklisted sites, and zap them from the dom.

This request could be broadened: it could just disable all links to blocked sites. Only issue I see with this is it could be memory and time intensive, but even then, scanning all links and disabling those to blacklisted sites could be helpful. Donno. Need to think about this one a bit.

It would be potentially intensive, it's true. I like your idea, but I do think some special cases are worth considering, like a link on facebook also comes with a text summary that you'd probably want to block. Maybe we could try to solve for the general case, but again, it'd be heavy. When are we going to get threads in client js? 8)