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Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by apparent on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:44PM (#49224047)
I'd love to be able to filter the feed so it only shows me actual posts by my connections. I do not care about comments my connections made on strangers' posts, and I surely do not care about posts by strangers that my connections 'liked'.

Anyone know if such a tool exists?

Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by mmarian on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:55PM (#49224147)
Built one 6 years ago that I gave up on https://github.com/mihailthebuilder/simplyfeed. The problem was that so many posts were filtered out that the feed would just show up empty.
Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by Rendello on Saturday August 08, 2026 @04:00PM (#49225339)
I used a great one for FB until it stopped working, it blocked 95% of everything. Andrew Kelley had a good analogy in his Don't Take the Black Pill talk:

> the user-facing software of Facebook is categorically, fundamentally coercive. It's like an arbitrary code execution exploit running on our brains. Scrolling down is the program counter, and the content that pops up is the instructions.

https://andrewkelley.me/post/dont-take-black-pill.html#:~:te...

Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by flir on Saturday August 08, 2026 @07:38PM (#49226928)
Write a browser plugin/userscript that, every time you hit / on facebook, redirects you to /?filter=all&sk=h_chr

(In the age of AI it's better to DIY it, IMO, because it's one less bit of self-updating code you've downloaded from a stranger).

Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by Rendello on Sunday August 09, 2026 @01:39PM (#49233561)
Thanks for the tip, the hidden feeds are much nicer.
Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by pkhamre on Saturday August 08, 2026 @03:10PM (#49224886)
Tells more about the Linkedin-feed than the tool.
Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by IncreasePosts on Saturday August 08, 2026 @03:26PM (#49225021)
Sounds like a great feature!
Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by beezlewax on Saturday August 08, 2026 @04:23PM (#49225540)
Because nobody posts anything and it is 90% bots?
Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by fg137 on Saturday August 08, 2026 @07:57PM (#49227038)
> The problem was that so many posts were filtered out that the feed would just show up empty.

Sounds like

1) it's working as designed

2) your direct connections are normal human beings

Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by specproc on Saturday August 08, 2026 @02:04PM (#49224243)
I'm not at my computer, but I've got such a thing. It's a ViolentMonkey script, something like LinkedIn Sponsor Block or similar. Does just what you need.
Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by Azurealistic on Saturday August 08, 2026 @06:12PM (#49226373)
Are you able to get this script? Sounds delightful.
Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by specproc on Sunday August 09, 2026 @03:30AM (#49229239)
Not the author, but here you go: https://github.com/Hogwai/LinkedinSponsorBlock/
Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by ykthename on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @10:14AM (#49258752)
Hi. I'm the creator. It's available as an userscript (Violentmonkey/tampermonkey) and as browser extensions (firefox/chrome)
Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by specproc on Sunday August 16, 2026 @05:32AM (#49318419)
Thanks for your work there.
Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by morkalork on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:50PM (#49224099)
Right, there are real posts from people I know hiding amongst the crap of promoted and suggested content. Not much, but it's there. It would be a shame to miss something from someone reaching out after a layoff or posting a job position at their company.
Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by rrr_oh_man on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:56PM (#49224161)
Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by apparent on Saturday August 08, 2026 @08:17PM (#49227146)
Just tried it, and it's great! I like that the blocked posts are retained and minimized/greyed out. That way I can see that it's blocking 90+ percent of the posts.
Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by dakial1 on Saturday August 08, 2026 @10:29PM (#49227865)
You can custom filter this with uBlock origin but sometimes linkedin changes the content blocks (e.g. from “x commented” to “x left a comment”) so you’ll need to do some maintenance.

Also, if you filter all the junk linkedin throws you’ll get some delay as ublock filters everything out.

Re:LinkedIn Feed Blocker by ykthename on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @10:12AM (#49258732)
I did this months ago: https://github.com/Hogwai/LinkedinSponsorBlock It's more focused on promoted/suggested content