I’m wondering how hard it would be to write a firefox extension that blocked individual Lemmy posts based on the presence of words in a block list.
I’m pretty famiiar with Python, but have only done a little bit of hacking of JS, so was hoping the brains trust could provide some insight.
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You should be able to do that with a ublock origin filter.
Maybe ask on the community: !ublockorigin@lemmy.ml
Should be pretty doable, even if you don’t have much JS knowledge yet. You might want to look into TamperMonkey for this, it’s a sort of framework for making custom browser plugins!
TamperMonkey is closed source. I’d recommend ViolentMonkey instead, since it’s open source and is practically identical to the other *Monkey extensions.
edit: To add, the developer of TamperMonkey has also shown themselves to be not worthy of trust; see Wikipedia under Controversy.
Did you actually read the “controversy” section?
A malicious adware media player - not related to Tampermonkey - installed Tampermonkey on your device to do bad stuff. And they could have done the same with any other userscript extension, like the suggested Violentmonkey. The wiki section even states:
This does not mean that Tampermonkey is malicious, but rather that a malicious program is utilizing a legitimate program for bad behavior
It’s fine to advocate and promote open source software, but why do that with lies and slander?
I second tampermonkey. I believe the lemmytools user script available in greasyfork does this already though.
Lemmytools is what I was hoping to find. Thank you! Installed and working great. I’ll never have to see another Trump post again.
