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It depends on what you go on X for, I agree most people probably go on X to read some combination of politics or news but likewise I know many people like myself who just want to use it to read people talking about tech or business without all the politics BS.


Well if you set one of your filter tags to 'politics' it will block out ALL tweets related to politics regardless of left or right wing. Hope that helps!


Just checked your account, if you could press the button on the top right and make it look like the power (without the slash) and then save? since it looks like it isn't enabled on your end.

And yeah still very early will be improving the UI a ton and taking into account your suggestions for the next version.

In terms of youtube, currently we just take into account the title, sometimes it is visible before hidden/blocked but we usually process within ~700ms so vast majority of the time you wouldn't see it.


I tried again, and now it's working - and yes it is reasonably fast but i wonder once you start adding vision it will likely increase your response time, to the point that you may need to consider a temporary blur until the content is vetted.

Anyways good work on the tool, it has potential even at just blocking inline ads and spam.


What's your preferred browser/medium?


Firefox. Sorry for harsh comment but I'm increasingly annoyed by Chrome only approach on the Internet.


We are going to support images in the next version we release (ETA 1 week), in terms of videos not sure how we'd be able to do that currently but constantly experimenting. Have you tried the extension yet?


No I have not. This is the killer feature for me though. Text based stuff I can just ignore or block, but the videos/images are what actually bother me (the abundance of porn on the site is what prevents me from using it in public).


Honestly that probably is the best alternative, but I still like to see the occasional high-signal post on twitter.


Interesting, are you connected with them? what's the best channel to talk?


The founder and I are part of On Deck and we had communicated.


Agreed, one of my favourite blog posts is this Farnam Street one on why you shouldn't read the news

https://fs.blog/stop-reading-news/

Like that haitan story every one was talking about last week, no ones knows if it was real or just BS. Better to just block it all out entirely.


Loved the blog, I also built a version that used a local LLM but wasn't sure how to package that to a wider audience so went with openai instead :)


Agreed, I follow a ton of tech-bros on twitter and their constant ramblings of politics was one of the reason I built my extension in the first place.

We have a whitelist coming soon in the next version so hopefully you'll be able to follow your researchers without all the other stuff :)


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