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Need Internet Browser blocking tech
Fookschplat
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I wish Google, IE, Firefox etc could invent some sort of add on or blocking software that you can tailor yourself. So you can type in a name of a person and never see a story about them again on news sites or any other site for that matter.
You can't read the Mail, Express, Telegraph, Mirror, Observer, Sky News, Metro and on and on and on... without being bombarded with all the Kardashian's, Jenner's, Katie Price, Kerry Katona, anyone from Towie, anyone who has gained or lost weight, who has pulled what of their ear this week, who's flaunting their body, what's hilarious when it's not...
Online news sites are an absolute joke now, there is barely any actual news... it has truly reached epic levels of crap... I must have seen Kylie Jenner's midrift a thousand times, Kardashian's fat ars* about a thousand times... it is cringeworthy journalism.
and before all the "but why do you click on the stories", I don't but the thumbnails are always there on the sites, you can't escape the crap. Can we block them please, or can we have a news site that doesn't bow down to these narcissistic rubbish
You can't read the Mail, Express, Telegraph, Mirror, Observer, Sky News, Metro and on and on and on... without being bombarded with all the Kardashian's, Jenner's, Katie Price, Kerry Katona, anyone from Towie, anyone who has gained or lost weight, who has pulled what of their ear this week, who's flaunting their body, what's hilarious when it's not...
Online news sites are an absolute joke now, there is barely any actual news... it has truly reached epic levels of crap... I must have seen Kylie Jenner's midrift a thousand times, Kardashian's fat ars* about a thousand times... it is cringeworthy journalism.
and before all the "but why do you click on the stories", I don't but the thumbnails are always there on the sites, you can't escape the crap. Can we block them please, or can we have a news site that doesn't bow down to these narcissistic rubbish
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kardashian-filter/kbnhlagadnlfihhgjkmcaffjadkadoap?hl=en
Thanks Jason..I had no idea this was actually possible, just clicked on it and it seems to be a real thing... ha ha, that's so cool... Need to try and keep up with thing's better, am 38 and have realised over the last year that I am falling behind in stuff as I have a 17 year old nephew and an 18 year and 16 year old niece... and they are coming away with thing's I have never heard of... a filter you could add your own names to would be great though
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/silence-of-the-celebs/aiieldihphpjggpihpgggmmkjgigjnpd#
I tried this out on the Mail and it said it removed 64 references to the K family. Wonderful.
It also removed all posts on here mentioning the K's so I couldn't quote your post to say thanks. I wondered if it can be turned off for certain sites.
I just installed that. I hope it works! I'm sick of seeing z-list celebs and extremely trivial news about them on websites. Does anyone really care about that rubbish?
Twitter
NYTimes
CNN
Huffington Post
Google News
Gawker
Mashable
TMZ
With the possible exception of Twitter these are all basically cesspit sites anyway so its not like you would be missing out on anything.
Anyway, who are the Kardashians?????
I wouldn't consider CNN to be a cesspit site. I always thought of it as a serious news site, or has it changed recently? CNN on the telly is a very serious news channel.
It was only the other week they made a big song and dance about a supposed ISIS flag at the London Pride (found via Twitter). They had several "anti-terror experts" flapping their gums until eventually another Twitter user gave the game away and pointed out it was actually just the symbols of various sex toys
Well I don't watch it all the time at the moment but I thought they used to be a serious channel. I can't stand Fox News. I watched it at a friend's house in 2011 and I thought it was very amateurish. All I could do was sit there and laugh