| I made a simple greasemonkey script: https://gist.github.com/plotti/168f833a94cbd801c50ac7fc5bf280d3 It always runs when you visit a particular newssite. For me its the swiss news-site watson.ch You can define topics via keywords that you don't want to see on this page (e.g. putin, trump, influencer) and then the script finds that dom element that contains this text and simply hides it. When I started using it I realized how much of a website is news-junk that i am totally not interested in. See screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/HtxTynh Discussion: Obviously the filtering would need to be constantly updated to match the page layout, but with a community of people its not hard to do this, similarly like for adblock lists. I would love to find people who want to turn this script with me into a browser extension that allows people without coding skills to perform this sort of filtering. I also wonder if there are similar projects out there. How to use: 1. Install Greasemonkey extension 2. Add this script as a userscript and adjust for your needs. |
Yes, I've been using Tampermonkey for filtering and modifying sites I visit frequently for 5 years or more. Before that, Ublock to render the page to my preferences. I started with filtering unwanted items in Craigslist and it grew from there. Now, I even filter HN.
My filters mostly remove topics but I also highlight articles with topics of interest. I use this along with scripts and extensions to "white-out" any articles I've already seen.
As you mentioned, though the logic is generally the same, the script has to be customized for each site.
There are concerns that Manifest 3 will cripple adblocking and many userscripts so I've recently moved to Firefox (Crostini).