While I agree with the sentiment, I don't understand how this helps: all of these platforms prioritize sort order based upon likes/popularity/engagement. You're just putting yourself at an information disadvantage by hiding the metrics while doing nothing to remedy that you're still primarily consuming content based entirely on likes.
Is Firefox support on your roadmap, DK? I'd use this in a hurry, as someone who meticulously hides social 'like' elements via Ublock Origin for the same reasons as described on your page.
This is a good idea in theory, as it will reduce your <i>fomo</i> and probably jealously. But I bet if you try this for a week, you'll remember why the like/votes metric is important...<p>The reason voting sites are so popular with people like you and me, is that it's an objective measure of quality from like-minded people.<p>My link-clicking experience has taught me that if something is <i>old</i> (>8 hours) with a low vote count, it might not be worth the time to look at it. By hiding this metric, you're essentially clicking randomly in the dark...
I LOVE THIS!!!<p>I've hidden my score/points on HN via UBlock Origin. I've also hidden the downvote button so I can't downvote anyone (one reason I wish I could run another browser on iOS so I could do the same there)<p>I want to see reasons responses to my comments not just downvotes which 5 out of 6 times seem like ideological downvotes which is not what downvotes are supposed to before. I'm tempted myself to click the downvote button if I strongly disagree hence the reason I hid them from myself.<p>Likes are not as bad is dislikes but I hid all the points/scores on those stack overflow too. An answer should be valid based on it's content not the it's score or the point rep of its answerer.<p>I agree that there's some maybe usefulness to ordering but I'm not entire convinced it outweighs the downsides of popularity where a celeb user gets up votes or a popular opinion gets upvotes effectively drowning out any valid criticism.<p>I really wish HN would get rid of the Q&A voting system. Bad faith comments can be flagged. And ideally bad flaggers can be disciplined.
See also Ben Grosser's Facebook[1], Instagram[2], and Twitter[3] Demetricators.<p>[1] <a href="https://bengrosser.com/projects/facebook-demetricator/" rel="nofollow">https://bengrosser.com/projects/facebook-demetricator/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://bengrosser.com/projects/instagram-demetricator/" rel="nofollow">https://bengrosser.com/projects/instagram-demetricator/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://bengrosser.com/projects/twitter-demetricator/" rel="nofollow">https://bengrosser.com/projects/twitter-demetricator/</a>
It's so hard today to constantly remind oneself how much that crap influences our experience. It's an incessant poisoning of the well. To me the habit I need to check most often is reading comments. If I read comments first I engage less critically with the content, as I've already formed some opinion and seem to know what it's about. If I read comments after I'm generally appalled and confused by the responses and remind myself again to never read comments.
I made an FF add-on for myself that applies css styles to elements matching a given regex. Currently, I only use it to apply visibility: hidden to elements containing text or attribute values matching domains I've blacklisted, including facebook.com, twitter.com and instagram.com. Because I have it enabled, my version of hidelikeseverywhere.com looks like this [1]. Bonus, I won't be able to see this comment on HN because I mention domains in the list :)<p>I also have the blacklist in uBO, but I was getting sick of accidentally clicking links I didn't realize went to sites I already knew I never wanted to visit.<p>[1] <a href="https://i.imgur.com/xHF0GcX.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/xHF0GcX.png</a><p>Edit: I guess this plugin has a different purpose than what I use mine for, it assumes you want to be on the site but not be influenced by the numbers. Because I didn't read TFA, I was thinking it was for "Follow/Like us on Site.com" type links.
I <i>seriously</i> wonder where our society would be today if likes/followers/retweets/pins/hearts were not a thing. I know way too many people who take 10 photos in their best clothes on one day, then spread them across their social media with witty captions over the next 90 days. Why? For who? What do you gain?
Here are some recommendations on how to take control of your device/apps: <a href="https://humanetech.com/resources/take-control/" rel="nofollow">https://humanetech.com/resources/take-control/</a>
These metrics are signals. Interestingly, we already have an extreme information asymmetry between platforms and users. The softened version of these moves is to make the experiences more authentic, the less soft version is to increase the information asymmetry even more.<p>You as an individual will be a bit sharper, if what you do is not just herd behaviour - but more coming from your true self, you know.<p>Anyway, the idea is still ok and the site looks nice, congrats on putting it out there.
This won't prevent you from being manipulated by vanity metrics. All of the metrics have already been crunched -- the 20 posts at the top of /r/all are there because they've been validated by everyone else using the site (in the form of likes, activity, and other metrics). Hiding some divs and spans won't change the posts you see at the top of /r/all.
Even if you are strong willed, seeing the number of likes and reshares will endup influencing you in the long term. However, hiding those numbers is putting a band aid on it.<p>If you are at a point, where you think those numbers are influencing you so badly that you need an extension, try to re-evaluate how how you are spending your time. Maybe you need to work on avoiding those websites in the first place.
If you use StyleBot you can add css to sites to remove particular elements such as like counts. It might be fun to just start zapping away lots of stuff that you don't want to see.
The downside is this hides who reacted to what, and in what way. Usually that's more important to me than the count. If I know several pretty sharp people (dis)like something, and I disagree, I stop and ponder why. It doesn't mean they're necessarily right, but helps me identify potential holes in my thinking.
This is a cool idea.<p>Gameifying popularity in virtual environments is a cringeworthy trend in the modern world. Nice to see a little push back.<p>Reminds me of Myspace's "Top 8" that everyone tried to gameify and took way too seriously back in grade school. People that had removed it altogether were usually more pleasant people to interact with in person.
This is a seriously great idea and looks well executed.<p>Just to add to the chorus of Firefox requesters. I’m sure you have limited dev resources but the spirit of this concept is very aligned with Firefox and less so Chrome. So it might be worth your time even if chrome has greater market share.<p>Look forward to seeing where you go with this project.
It would be good if this only requested permission to read the relevant sites, instead of all sites. I tried using Chrome's options to manually restrict the allowed sites but the extension could not tolerate it and stopped working.
Hiding likes to avoid bias towards "liking" a post is good. Preventing likes is not good. This seems like a good balance - still allows for ppl to unbiasedly like and for the algos to try to send me good stuff.
Resaturating HN text would be a useful feature to support (the worst part of this innovative practice is that when you highlight it to try to make it more readable it becomes even less readable)
The name, Hide Likes Everywhere at a first glance seems like a grammatical error. Once I understood it, it reminded me of this Groucho Marx saying:<p>Time flies like an Arrow.
Fruit flies like Banana.