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You Should KnowEnglish · 3 months ago

YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words

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YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words

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You Should KnowEnglish · 3 months ago

You can use uBlock Origin to block certain keywords in posts!

Why

If you’re like me, you’re really tired of seeing the lemmy homepage and every community fill up with really bad news from the US.

How

First, open the uBlock Origin dashboard, navigate to My Filters tab and add the appropriate line.

# lemmy.world
# thanks to /u/zkfcfbzr
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Musk|ICE|Vance|slop|Microsoft|Grok|Republican|Democrat|Republicans|GOP|Democrats/i)

# lemmy.zip
lemmy.zip##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Musk|ICE|Vance|slop|Microsoft|Grok|Republican|Democrat|Republicans|GOP|Democrats/i)

Because the Lemmy HTML is generally the same on each instance, the above should work if you change the first part to the Lemmy domain. Then replace the | pipe separated keywords with your own list.

Here are some other things you can do:

# filter comments
# thanks to /u/Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
lemmy.world##article.comment-node:has(div.comment-content:has(p:has-text(/trump/i)))

# filter posts with certain words, with exceptions
# thanks to /u/zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3/i):not(:has-text(/word4|word5|word6/i))

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whack-a-moe

That’s pretty clever
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  Can’t say it’s original, I definitely stole it from someone else here who had the same grievance.
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    If you didn’t say anything, I wouldn’t have known, and you could have taken credit

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