Comment by mfrisbie
8 days ago
I kept catching myself scrolling down their idiotic feed and wondering what the hell I was doing. Mindless dreck, all of it. Yet I still get cold inbound from it that turns into business, so I can't just abandon the platform entirely.
I wrote a ~50 LOC browser extension that always redirects away from the feed to your profile. Works great, sideload and forget.
Nice. I use one in the chrome store called News Feed Eradicator. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/news-feed-eradicato...
Looks nice, but that extension is a high-value acquisition target for bad actors, and there's nothing but an email for contact information.
Sideloading eliminates this risk completely.
Dev of the mentioned extension here, I've been getting emails from bad actors offering to "buy" the extension for years. It really has made me far less trusting of browser extensions.
If I can be bothered replying, I tell them it's open source, they can just use the code for free. Eventually if I push them on it, they tell me they just want to acquire the users, and don't care about the extension. I wonder just how many extensions are compromised this way, it's a mess.
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