#4.69 / 227 rate

Good News

3,000 users

2019-01-31

MrSethT

mrsetht+GoodNews@gmail...

This extension is being deprecated because it doesn't follow Chrome extension best practices.

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Description

Blocks unwanted news stories from appearing in your Google News feed.

It blocks unwanted news stories from appearing in your Google news feed. Add keywords and key phrases as patterns to block. Then, any headlines or leads that contain those patterns will be hidden from view. To restore them, either remove the pattern or click the "show" link at the top of the news feed.

Import my list as a starter - https://pastebin.com/dh9TuPsL

What's new-
06/2018
- first word bug
- attempt to prevent overly simple keywords
05/2018
- started handling new layout
07/2017
- much faster
- can hide notification
- works with new redesign
- added "Silent Mode"
- UI tweaks
- now applies to all regions (*://news.google.*)

It largely borrows from Personal Blocklist (by Google)

Keyword muting, trump, kardashian, block

Reviews

Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Jeff Green

When I added terms to it that I didn't want to see, it worked. However, I recently noticed that many of these terms were showing up. I didn't understand why, and I didn't check this extension to see what the problem was. Today, I saw a new item that I wasn't interested in, so I went to add it to this extension, and I noticed that ALL of my previous entries had been wiped clean. I don't know what happened, but probably two years or so worth of entries were simply gone. That's not acceptable. If that's a flaw in this extension, it means that this is an extension that doesn't belong in the Play Store. To sum up, when it was working, it was working just fine, but when I discovered that all my entries had vanished, that made this a really problematic extension. Edit: It happened a second time. I added terms back into the database, and w/in a few weeks, they'd disappeared. I'm uninstalling this addon, b/c I don't trust it not to harm my browser.