If I’m following this correctly, Brave supports something similar natively:<p><a href="https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018039072-How-do-I-block-additional-page-elements-" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018039072-How...</a>
Cool! Just curious, why do you query 10 times per second for a feed? This seems kind of excessive and maybe a bit bad for battery life, especially since this could be running in several tabs at once.
I've been using an extension called News Feed Eradicator for like years now and its great! I was thinking of editing the code to put up like a math equation every time I need to disable it, but not sure if its open source. Seems like this tool might work!
people who like this kind of think might also like Clearspace [1] -- they've got some great tools to fight the attention-hijackers<p>[1] <a href="https://www.getclearspace.com">https://www.getclearspace.com</a>
For YouTube there's a great plugin called DFToutube (Distraction free YouTube)<p>One of my favourite plugins of all time. YouTube becomes what I want it to become; just a pure search engine for videos.<p>If you enable everything in the config, it's beautiful.<p>Source: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/df-tube-distraction-free/mjdepdfccjgcndkmemponafgioodelna" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/df-tube-distractio...</a>
You might be cooking something here, seems useful when you're on certain websites that stream sports and won't allow you to close the chat windows while watching.
Looks complex. What are the advantages compared to Social Fixer?
<a href="https://socialfixer.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://socialfixer.com/</a>
Content blockers like uBlock Origin can do this. The two included in this extension become these cosmetic filters:<p><pre><code> www.facebook.com##[role="feed"]
www.youtube.com###contents</code></pre>