This is nuts, every news page I go there is a Musk story. It's like their PR department's budget is billions of dollars. Can someone please make MuteMusk.com as a proxy? I'd love to pay for this service.<p>Then you can expand into other Mute services, like select your least favorite celebrities, billionaires, etc.
Simple build-it-yourself solution:<p>- Find a good RSS reader<p>- Add your favorite HN feeds via the unofficial RSS feed: <a href="https://hnrss.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://hnrss.github.io/</a><p>- Block every article including '<i>Musk</i>' or '<i>Elon</i>'. Maybe throw in '<i>Twitter</i>' for good measure too.<p>If you'd pay for this, I'd love to make it. It's legitimately effortless to set up.
It can be done with uBlock [0] writing custom filters though one would have to write a filter for each domain as the stylesheets differ.<p>Here is an example of how to do this on HN in about:addons -> uBlock Preferences -> uBlock My Filters tab<p><pre><code> # top (title / url)
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(musk|elon|twitter)/):upward(tr)
# bottom (stats / comments)
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(musk|elon|twitter)/):upward(tr) + *
</code></pre>
Or if you just want to replace text, there is the FoxReplace addon. [1] One could rename him to whatever brings a smile.<p>[0] - <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...</a><p>[1] - <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxreplace/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxreplace/</a>
As opposed to:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26198472" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26198472</a>