Filter tweets from Twitter Blue users without having to block or mute them.
What is BlueLiteBlocker?
BlueLiteBlocker is an innovative Chrome extension that empowers you to customize your Twitter experience. Just by installing and enabling the extension, you can easily stop seeing tweets from Twitter Blue users you don't follow, without needing to mute or block them. Further customize the tweets you see with an option to only allow tweets from accounts with a certain number of followers. Stay updated and get support by following @BlueLiteBlocker on Twitter.
Extension stats
By: MalwareTech
Users: 3,000+
Rating: 4.75
(44)
Creation date: 2023-04-26
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
Size: 40.68K
Email: co*****@malwaretech.com
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Extension summary
Hide tweets from Twitter Blue users you don't follow without needing to mute or block them.
Customizable to allow tweets from accounts with more than a set number of followers.
Follow @BlueLiteBlocker on Twitter for Updates/Support.
User reviews
Pros
- Improves Twitter experience by filtering unwanted content
- Saves brain cells by removing pointless tweets
- Very helpful and works effectively when functional
- Genuinely life-changing for users
- A must-have for a usable Twitter experience in 2023
Cons
- Currently non-functional due to domain change from twitter.com to x.com
- Users need to manually update the extension from GitHub
- Recent changes have caused Twitter to stop loading for some users
- Confusion due to multiple versions of the extension
- Lack of updates from developers despite user requests
Most mentioned
- Doesn't work due to the domain change
- Manual workaround available on GitHub
- Improves Twitter usability
- Preserves brain cells
- A good extension when functional
Recent reviews
Currently, this extension does not work as-is, due to the domain updating from twitter.com to x.com, BUT there is a way to make it work, via a fixed extension from GitHub.
See the review by boopidoop for full instructions. Before following the guide, I recommend that you remove the current BlueLiteBlocker extension, as it's not needed for the new extension to work, and since the two icons can easily be confused, making it hard to know (at that point) which one to remove.
Then follow the instructions to install the fixed extension.
Useless for a while now, since it does not work on the "x.com" URLs.
Took me 5min to update the app locally, it's a damn shame devs won't do the same, despite people asking for it on the git page.
Very good extension, but doesn't currently work due to the recent URL change ("twitter.com" -> "x.com")
There's currently a GitHub pull request that fixes this, requires manual installation but doesn't have any malicious code in it, just changes all references to "twitter.com" to "x.com"
https://github.com/mark-ignacio/BlueLiteBlocker/tree/domain-change
Install instructions:
1. Click the link above, then the green "Code" button and "Download ZIP"
2. Unzip the downloaded ZIP file, then navigate to where you unpacked it
3. In the "BlueLiteBlocker" folder, delete "firefox_manifest.json" and rename "chrome_manifest.json" to "manifest.json"
(Optional) Open "manifest.json", remove lines 29 to 34 and save the file (these are only used by Firefox, and leaving them in will only produce warnings in Chrome's console but won't actually affect anything)
4. In Chrome, go to "chrome://extensions" (or click the 3 dots in the top right corner, then go to "Extensions" and click "Manage Extensions")
5. Click "Developer Mode" at the top right of the Extensions page, then "Load Unpacked" in the top left
6. In the Explorer window that opens, navigate to where you unpacked the ZIP file, click the "BlueLiteBlocker" folder and click "Select Folder" at the bottom right
7. There should now be two BlueLiteBlocker extensions listed on the page, one with an orange circle overlapping its icon. Find the one without the circle, and click either "Remove" or the small switch on its bottom right corner
8. To test if the updated extension works, find a popular post (eg. one on x.com/ElonMusk, or one on your "Following" or "For You" page with hundreds of replies) and scroll down. If it is still showing users with blue checkmarks, click the extension's icon (top right of the Chrome window, or click on the "Jigsaw Piece" icon and look for it in the list), double check the settings, click "Save Settings", click back on Twitter and hard-refresh the page (Ctrl+F5)
Extension safety
Risk impact
BlueLiteBlocker requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
BlueLiteBlocker has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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