Comment on Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value

• snek@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Will try now and report back!

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  • snek@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It blocks these:

    Block List Steve Ballmer Jeff Bezos Michael Bloomberg Sergey Brin Warren Buffett Larry Ellison Bill Gates Kanye “Ye” West Elon Musk Larry Page Donald Trump Mark Zuckerberg

    Immediate observation: really cool, also blocks comments about Elon Musk (including my own lol) Sadly doesn’t block images

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    • BobGnarley@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah thats a great way to stay up to date with technology, just pretend they dont exist!

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      • baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What ever would we do without updates on technological marvels such as:

        • Fraudulent car
        • Fraudulent train
        • Low-poly cosplay truck
        • Animal abuse brain microchip
        • Kepler syndrome ISP
        • Self-destructing rocket to mars
        • Social media for Nazis?

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      • snek@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You forgot the /s!

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    • Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does it block the word “Musk”? Is it case-sensitive? Honestly curious, especially since some of these last names can refer to either the person or a noun.

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      • snek@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It does not block “Musk” or “Elon” when they aren’t in the same sentence It seems to block “musk” or “elon” or “elon musk” in lowercase.

        One problem I noticed is that it slows down the loading of other pages, like Protonmail via the browser, so I had to disable it for some web pages. I don’t think you can individually disable it for certain pages though, so I’d have to turn it on/off.

        One awesome feature that I’d like to see them ad is allowing custom names. I don’t only dislike Elon Musk, but also Taylor Swift and all the other rich people who make it into my news and my brain every single day on every single news outlet… If it’s not about world economy, there really isn’t a reason why Taylor Swift would be on Reuters. There is no reason at all for Elon Musk to be on the news, and when the news is about the lives he ruined, they should put a picture of THEM up, not of his shitty face.

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      • snek@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, it doesn’t block “Elon” or “Musk” individually, only when put together. Another issue I’m facing is that I had to disable it when loading some web-pages, seems like it caused the loading of the page to slow down

        I can already see how such an extension could be improved with some Named Entity Recognition, it’s easy to tell from context which Musk or Elon we are talking about :/

        test: elon musk

        test: musk

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