Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19

Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by jasonv on Saturday April 04, 2020 @06:14PM (#22781986)

I keep a long list of blocked words in Twitter, Feedly, and I try... as much as I can, to only consume news on reuters.com (and 4 print weeklies). I block CNN and Facebook in my hosts file.

And yet, I'm barraged on the web with celebrity news, popular news, Tiger King (never clicked on it, never wanted it, can't get away from it), whatever the foamy coffee thing that's big right now.

I know about the shelters in place. I knew not to bring my re-usable bags to the grocery this morning.

The whole of media, content, everything you see when you open your browser and leave the house, is a monumental barrage of trending, overwhelming, unavoidable content. Memes you can't get away from but which you'll see hundreds, thousands of times.

Whatever people need to do to get away from it... you'll still get it, but if you choose and are aware of the filters you use, by all means.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by jacobwilliamroy on Saturday April 04, 2020 @08:03PM (#22782544)

I stopped reading the news entirely. Doesnt even matter what they're saying, I'll hear about it eventually.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by jobigoud on Sunday April 05, 2020 @03:48AM (#22784361)

If you go outside you need to know what is legal or not and that could change day to day though. Your city could have a curfew, require a form justifying your errands or whatnot. I normally don't read news at all but in this specific times some type of awareness is required.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by z3t4 on Sunday April 05, 2020 @05:48AM (#22784765)

You should read that sort of info directly from the source. eg. your city or goverment web page. Not spoon fed by facebook, news sites, et.al.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by nswest23 on Sunday April 05, 2020 @04:26PM (#22788394)

which source? do I have to scour all of the following on a rolling basis: city, county, state federal websites? Which departments at each level? seems a lot easier to just visit <mylocalnews>.com and get info displayed in order of (relative) importance.

edit: a word

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by jacobwilliamroy on Sunday April 05, 2020 @03:33PM (#22787925)

My address is well documented. If the government wants to tell me something, they know where to find me.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by twomoretime on Saturday April 04, 2020 @06:26PM (#22782046)

Frankly, that's why I consume nothing but torrents. There's no other way to avoid being assaulted by ads for the trash you describe.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by mavsman on Saturday April 04, 2020 @10:01PM (#22783145)

Torrents help you to _avoid_ ads? I must've been using them wrong back when I did. Sounds like you know the right site/app/workflow to use.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by twomoretime on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:44PM (#22796549)

Not sure how you consume yours but I do the same old search on pirate Bay + download with Deluge.

Deluge is a good torrent app, the frogs boiled slowly with uTorrent and BitTorrent as they were overcome, but deluge still appears to be ad free!

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by BiteCode_dev on Sunday April 05, 2020 @03:13AM (#22784251)

Stremio and popcorn time. It's netflix for torrent. No popups or animation. I think there is one banner somewhere, but it's so discrete I don't even remember.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by jobigoud on Sunday April 05, 2020 @03:52AM (#22784376)

uTorrent has a search tab for example.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by focodev on Sunday April 05, 2020 @05:02AM (#22784610)

We have come a long way from Limewire apparently.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by AznHisoka on Saturday April 04, 2020 @06:21PM (#22782015)

I saw the first episode of Tiger King, expecting to see some epic, thrilling dramatic series, given all the buzz. I was severely disappointed. Is this really what humans love to watch?

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by jm547ster on Saturday April 04, 2020 @06:47PM (#22782162)

It only gets worthwhile in the last episode when he’s giving the eulogy

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by laxd on Saturday April 04, 2020 @06:28PM (#22782059)

I'm on episode 4 as we speak, taking it for what it is (low brow entertainment). Still waiting for it to live up to the hype. I've seen far more engaging junk.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by mavsman on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:58PM (#22783129)

Gotta throw on one more to the pile here. My wife and I have had one episode left for a while now, not sure if/when we'll watch it. Mostly I'm wondering why they didn't just shrink this down to 1.5 hours of content. We basically knew about all the crazy stuff from the trailer.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by darkstar999 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:10PM (#22782915)

I wasn't super impressed with the first episode. But if you are generally into documentaries and true crime, the series as a whole is great.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by dawnerd on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:24PM (#22782987)

It was a bit of a letdown at the end. I was expecting more to it than just, well he's in prison how. Very anti-climatic.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by ChikkaChiChi on Saturday April 04, 2020 @11:37PM (#22783559)

The best description I read was that is was a perfect "Human Zoo"

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by surewhynat on Saturday April 04, 2020 @07:31PM (#22782371)

I don't think the comment was meant to exclude him or herself from humanity. I interpreted the sentence as inclusive of him or herself, but riddled with shame for our species, ie: why do you human beings like trash tv?

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by Waterluvian on Sunday April 05, 2020 @01:14AM (#22783885)

Tangentially: I have a ton of fun trying to figure out various events based on the memes and other references I'm exposed to. The most recent is Tiger King. My best guess at the moment is that he's a guy who went to prison for liking tigers the wrong way.

Surely there's other people who do this or some term for it. I feel like there's a fruitful cultural idea here. Kind of reminds me of how I know most of my dad's childhood TV shows because of the Simpsons.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by hetspookjee on Sunday April 05, 2020 @01:26AM (#22783930)

I used to watch the political discourse on tv during lunch in the hopes I'd find out what they're actually talking about before my lunch was over. Often I didn't guess. Was a fun game when a worked alone from home at the time.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by mettamage on Sunday April 05, 2020 @01:18AM (#22783897)

I don't use: Twitter, Feedly and have my main account of FB on another browser. HN is my only news website as it gave better aggregate content than my 200+ Feedly subscriptions.

That's how I do it.

Oh and I use YouTube for entertainment with 300+ subscriptions, sometimes news comes through. But my recommendation feed is more fun anyway.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by lethologica on Saturday April 04, 2020 @06:36PM (#22782102)

Genuinely asking out of curiosity, but at what point does it not become easier to just get off of those services than to maintain something to make them useable (only just by the sounds of it in your case)?

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by kordlessagain on Saturday April 04, 2020 @08:19PM (#22782620)

What we need is an AI agent that runs locally, crawls the web, figures out what you want to see, and turns off any javascript when you look at it.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by atoav on Sunday April 05, 2020 @02:05AM (#22784050)

I rely on the intelligence of my own mind to do exactly that, beeing able to observe yourself while you do things can be a invaluable skill (and it is in fact the foundation of all artistic skill)

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by trevyn on Sunday April 05, 2020 @12:16AM (#22783698)

The problem is connections to other people using those services as information sources. For example, there is some genuinely valuable stuff on HN, so I stay, but a lot of noise leaks in as well, and it’s non-trivial to separate. (And people vary on what they consider signal.)

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by obituary_latte on Saturday April 04, 2020 @07:29PM (#22782359)

Pi-hole has done wonders for my (and my family/friends) internet browsing experience. Just threw it up on a DO droplet and very occasionally ssh in to update.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by dkdk8283 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:39PM (#22783060)

I feel the same. Talking about my angst with fellow tech workers leads to a similar conclusion: we have nobody to blame but ourselves. We’ve all made this.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by obituary_latte on Sunday April 05, 2020 @09:41AM (#22785496)

Not sure you meant to respond here?

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by ThePowerOfFuet on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @04:10AM (#22801311)

It sounds like a subscription to The Economist is what you're looking for, vs the noise online.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Cov... by kickscondor on Sunday April 05, 2020 @12:34AM (#22783750)

This makes me think that you could use the Treendly site recently posted (discovers trends on the Internet) as a blacklist. :]

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