Cool! Just curious, why do you query 10 times per second for a feed? This seems kind of excessive and maybe a bit bad for battery life, especially since this could be running in several tabs at once.
I've been using an extension called News Feed Eradicator for like years now and its great! I was thinking of editing the code to put up like a math equation every time I need to disable it, but not sure if its open source. Seems like this tool might work!
people who like this kind of think might also like Clearspace [1] -- they've got some great tools to fight the attention-hijackers
For YouTube there's a great plugin called DFToutube (Distraction free YouTube)
One of my favourite plugins of all time. YouTube becomes what I want it to become; just a pure search engine for videos.
If you enable everything in the config, it's beautiful.
Source: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/df-tube-distractio...
CSS override works too
I feel the same though, those thumbnails steal your attention when you go to YT to do something
This is cool.
I use uBlock Origin to block GitHub's feed (I find it surprisingly distracting, and often right when I need to remain focused).
It would be great if you could include a before and after screenshot of your plugin in action. thanks
I use a mix of Unhook and Focus Time to get rid of the feeds that annoy me the most.
You might be cooking something here, seems useful when you're on certain websites that stream sports and won't allow you to close the chat windows while watching.
Such a good idea. Do you have any plan to polish this up and publish to an extension store?
Looks complex. What are the advantages compared to Social Fixer? https://socialfixer.com/
Honestly, really good idea for work machines. I need to go to YT sometimes but I'd be lying if I said those feeds don't get me to click.
Definitely going to try this for StackExchange
new reddit with their feeds kills the web for me
YouTube has a setting to turn this off already.
does this remove an entire feed or selective content in feed don't want to see?
Content blockers like uBlock Origin can do this. The two included in this extension become these cosmetic filters:
www.facebook.com##[role="feed"]
www.youtube.com###contents
If I’m following this correctly, Brave supports something similar natively:
https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018039072-How...