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epic bama logo Blocker? I hardly know her!

The BlueLiteBlocker plugin but BAMA-IFIED!

About

Look, this is a fork of a project and I got carried away lmfao - its main purpose is to delete promoted tweets instead of just collapsing them but it also has a reworked UI cos I felt like it and also a different logo because I'm a graphic designer so I enjoy that kind of thing and also a different name as BlueLiteBlocker sounds stupid im sorry. I dont intend for this to be a replacement or anything to the original its just a lil bit of fun as im not a programmer.

I'm also pretty sure this is very broken now but I'm still proud of my UI redesign and still want the world to see that












(og description from plugin)
This extension allows you to hide Tweets from Twitter Blue users you don't follow, if they have less than a set number of followers. You can customize the follower threshold and choose between collapsing or removing Tweets.

Currently Supports: FireFox, Chrome

Release Builds

Note: the WebStore take a while to approve extension updates. If the store version doesn't match the GitHub version, consider installing from source instead.

How to install from source

Latest Release Release Version
Source Code v0.0.0.9
Chrome Store v0.0.0.9
Firefox Store v0.0.0.9

Demo Video

example of Tweet collapsing

How To Install From Source

Chrome: chrome_install.md

FireFox: firefox_install.md

How It Works

The extension intercepts HTTP responses from Twitter's API and parses the tweet lists for Twitter Blue users.

Developing this extension required reverse engineering the Twitter API and client, so it may stop working if major changes to the platform are made. Please submit an issue to let me know about any bugs/suggestions.

Settings

Note: this extension will not hide tweets from people you follow regardless of Blue status.

Follow Threshold - don't hide Tweets from users with more than X followers (default 100,000).

Filtering Modes

Default - Tweets from Twitter Blue users will be collapsed in the timeline/replies as seen in the image below.

Note: this does not work for search/notification, so in those cases the extension will just remove the tweet.

Soft Filter Example

Hard - Tweets from Twitter Blue users will never show up in your feed. This is somewhat buggy and needs further testing.


Known Issues

Hard Filter Mode

  • may hit Twitter rate limit if lots of responses are from Blue users (seems like an API limitation, but may be fixable)
  • some issues with feed moving after loading new tweets, may be due to Twitter expecting more Tweets than we show

Soft Filter Mode

  • no apparent way so collapse Tweets in notifications or search. We currently use hard filtering on these.

Updates

Follow me on https://twitter.com/BlueLiteBlocker for updates.

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