Technology @lemmy.world uranibaba @lemmy.world 12mo ago

How to block posts about Elon Musk (or other custom string) on computer

Using uBlock Origin, you can add your own filter. This filter will block any post with the text "Elon Musk" (not case sensitive), modify as needed.

lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/elon musk/i"))

div.post-listing is the element to block
:has(args) returns elements where args evaluate to true
span is the element with the title text
:has-text(needle) returns the element if it has the next needle, supports regex with \needle\ and remove case sensitivity with i

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I wish I could block Elon Musk from reality.
- I think he is doing it to himself imho.
  
  Not quickly enough
Did this with Kim Khardashian on my pc, if I can do it for mobile too that would be lit.
- uBlock works on Firefox mobile, filters can be set.
- Sync for Lemmy has keyword filtering! :)
What I really want is a browser plugin that replaces any mention of "Ron Johnson" with "Ron Johnson, THAT fucker"

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/19/ron-johnson-spending-blockade-puts-government-shutdown-in-focus/70895824007/

"Ron Johnson, THAT fucker's blockade of spending measure puts government shutdown in focus"
- There are so many other people that could and should be applicable to.
Too late.
I have been wondering how I could do the same for X (formerly known as twitter). I'm tired of reading about it every day. I don't know how to filter it out since it's just one letter and it'll filter out everything just containing an X in a word
- You can use the regex: /\bx\b/i
  
  It'll catch 'x' surrounded by word boundaries (stuff like spaces, dashes/hyphens, commas, etc.) but not 'x' with other letters on either side, so it won't match e.g. "sax" or "boxer", but it'll match "x.com" and "Elon's X" and stuff. It's probably not perfect though, so use with caution.
  
  Stuff about X-rays will be filtered, for example. You could probably go a little safer with the regex.
  
  It's sadly not perfect as @Mananasi@feddit.nl also states, and since I like maths related stuff too and science it'll likely filter out too much stuff. But I appreciate your efforts. An ai algorithm or a community created blacklist is probably the only solution.
And I heartily encourage people who loathe Elon Musk to do this. Perhaps then it will be easier to discuss subjects like reusable rocketry or electric cars without so much "but the Twitter!" digression.
- He’s not designing the rockets, dude. He’s on ketamine posting rot about The Jews. The world does not need Elon Musk to have technological progress.
  
  He's very much involved in the designing of those rockets. That's a fact, not opinion
  
  So doesn't that make it even more reasonable to not constantly jump in with how awful Elon Musk is when discussing SpaceX's rockets?
- His rockets suck and his cars suck.
  
  His cars really suck, the amount of build quality problems on those cars is way too high for a car that costs as much as it does
Neat! I follow Lemmy communities in an RSS feed so I can just filter right in my RSS reader. It's pretty nice.

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