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bjornstar / Tumblr-Savior

Filter your Tumblr dashboard
https://tumblr-savior.bjornstar.com
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Blacklist specific sponsored post accounts #47

Closed IBBoard closed 7 years ago

IBBoard commented 8 years ago

As an addition/alternative to #40, it'd be good if we could blacklist specific account names from sponsored posts.

For example, I've had an ad from The Sun newspaper about how the Great Barrier Reef is dying. In general, I'd be fine with a news outlet showing an occasional advert for an important story that they wanted to promote, but as The Sun is a hate-filled rag and not a source of quality journalism then I never want to see one of their adverts again.

Unfortunately, there was nothing I could block in this case. If I blocked "The Sun" then I'd get collateral damage of blocking other posts talking about astronomical bodies, and if I blocked words from the tagline then it'd probably do the same.

What I think it needs is either a separate block list or a different notation (@name?) to allow us to mute specific accounts (including when they are sponsored posts).

Thanks.

bjornstar commented 7 years ago

They're not accounts, they're not posts, they're advertisements. They do not participate in the community, you cannot reblog them, like them, block them, send them an ask or even @mention them. I'm not going to treat them like content.

IBBoard commented 7 years ago

Sorry, I was being lax with my terms. I realise that most of the adverts will be from groups that don't actually have accounts and that they're just made to look like posts so as to be in-keeping with the general dashboard display. By "account" I meant "thing that is in the account name position in an advert that is rendered as if it were a post".

IBBoard commented 7 years ago

In case anyone wants it, here's a patch I've been using for about three months without any problems: TumblrSavior.patch.txt It applies existing content matching rules to the content of ad-posts, and has an "@username" notation for the fake blog name (so "@eBay" blocks eBay ads without blocking someone talking about what they just sold on eBay).