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Ad-free Twitter with 1 line of CSS

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I would have paid for Twitter years ago if I didn’t have to see ads or recommendations, or anything else other than what I chose to follow. I swear, I’ve always wanted to see the stuff I was interested in and not all the other garbage.

These days, I only land on Twitter when I follow a link about an interesting topic. I scroll a bit and I start seeing politics, memes, posts, images, tweets, messages and all sorts of stuff that have nothing to do with the original topic I clicked on. Twitter would be pretty cool if this didn’t happen.

I don’t see any ads or recommendations, or anything else except exactly what I choose to follow: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/

was curious to see what the svg code drew, it is this https://i.jollo.org/O1Ux_wco.png

I currently pay for Twitter Blue; I would pay double for no ads. Hopefully that possibility is considered alongside “assigning an engineer to obfuscate the CSS”.

Wait, the Twitter subscription service doesn't remove ads already? That's wild, I guess I just assumed that it would.

It reduces the amount of ads, but isn't ad free

Twitter Blue didn't even remove ads? What the hell is the point then?

To get the blue tick. As of today, it now gives encrypted DMs too, but I can't see many people sharing sensitive data over a Twitter DM.

I think it also allows longer tweets. Not sure what their character limit is.

Oh yeah! 10,000 character limit for Twitter Blue users.

Also 1080p videos, which are surprisingly high quality. It seems like a much higher bitrate then Youtube or Instagram '1080p'.

The point is to make a monthly donation to show your allegiance to the world’s second-richest man. It’s like a cult membership fee. You get a little graphical badge to show you’ve paid, like a virtual lapel pin.

I heard someone use "blue tick wanker" as a real life insult the other day.

It was already used as an insult in many parts of the Internet, long before Elon Musk's buyout. It's just the blue check people from that era don't really realize how many people despise them.

It also acts as a great self-selector to filter out users who pay allegiance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blueliteblock...

Example: https://i.imgur.com/vgzTo5P.png

Blue ticks are helpful because you can identify and mute them with JS and the Musk-lead narcissism.

> What the hell is the point then?

You assume that there is one.

I do recall seeing some sort of promise of less ads. I think it said 50% less ads at some point in the process. (Personally I am paying for it for the same reason I pay for YouTube Premium and OpenAI Plus; I like the principle of paying for products I use - as much as possible, I want to avoid incentivizing companies turning my eyeballs into their real product.)

Is there any way I could add this line to my uBlock Origin chrome extension?

yes you can just block the same selector they use in the code here

Slight tangent: what is the current favorite tool to inject CSS into web pages in our browser?

Greasemonkey/ Tampermonkey ?

I use Stylus for injecting CSS: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

From the OP, there's also StyleBot: https://stylebot.dev/

How do I remove "more tweets" section which is always there when you open a tweet?

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