#content blocking

[jessicameleon]

it would be so cool if people tagged the things i don't wanna see so i wouldn't have to see them since they would be under my blocked tags but because they're untagged then i have to see them anyway because they're not tagged appropriately the op decided they didn't want to tag their post so that when me, someone who doesn't want to see it, sees it come on my dash i do have to see it rather than it being blocked thanks to the blocked tag feature this website has so that you don't have to see things you don't want to see causing me to see it because it relies on other people tagging the things i have blocked in order for me to not see it

[netscapenavigator-official]

Goddamnit. Staff combined the Tumblr Live URL with the main one, so now NoScript can't block it at the top of my dash. Booooooo.

[khajittink]

Anyone having issues with Tumblr blocking certain content, there is a section in settings where you can turn it off :)

[kapitaali]

Hear me out guis: V-chip but for ads

I just want to not see any ads.

[bitchatar]

So I got an ask about how I filtered out product posts because the tagging system only works if it's tagged as product. Here's a step by step for mobile

So that's it! It's been working great for me to block all those unnecessarily long product posts haha

[pauperism]

Distraction-free Pinterest (PC)

I use Pinterest to discover interesting content. It sorta works as long as it’s content linked from an external site. It’s these external sites I’m interested in.

Unfortunately Pinterest is full animated content and ads which don’t play well with my attention disorder. But it’s easy to disable auto-play for videos.

Under Settings → Privacy you can untick “Auto-play videos on desktop”. Now it’s click to play, so I’m not missing out on anything, but it’s also not drawing my attention.

Another improvement is to disable notifcations. This is under Settings → Notifications. Untick all the boxes or click “turn off all”.

Finally, get rid of the promoted pins by adding the following to your uBlock Origin (Firefox / Chrome) blocklist:

pinterest.*##[data-grid-item]:has([data-test-id="oneTapPromotedPin"]) pinterest.*##[data-grid-item]:has([aria-label="Product Pin"]) pinterest.*##[data-grid-item]:has([data-test-id="oneTapPromotedPin"]) pinterest.*##[data-grid-item]:has([title="Promoted by"]) pinterest.com##[data-grid-item]:has([data-test-id="oneTapPromotedPin"]) pinterest.com##[data-grid-item]:has([aria-label="Product Pin"]) pinterest.co.uk##[data-grid-item]:has([data-test-id="oneTapPromotedPin"]) pinterest.co.uk##[data-grid-item]:has([aria-label="Product Pin"])

Other content blocking software that uses the same syntax, like Adblock Plus, will also accept the above instructions. I could probably make them cleaner but it works.

The final suggestion is to fine-tune your feed. You can do this under Tune your home feed. You can also see suggestions only inspired by a specific board you’ve made.

You can always see why Pinterest is suggesting a pin to you: click the three dots to see why. Just looking at a pin without pinning it, is enough to start getting weird suggestions. Screenshots of text seem to be the worst.

Enjoy your distraction-free pinboards!

[ourwitching]

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