Promute

Promute automatically mutes twitter accounts sending promotions to your timeline as you scroll by.
What is Promute?
Promute is a Chrome Extension that automatically mutes Twitter accounts sending promotions to your timeline as you scroll by. It identifies and mutes promoted tweets, providing a seamless browsing experience without unwanted advertisements.

Extension stats

Users: 21 ▼ -5
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 1.0.10 (Last updated: 2023-08-29)
Creation date: 2020-12-25
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 26.73K

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Extension summary

Promute is a Chrome Extension that automatically mutes twitter accounts sending promotions to your timeline as you scroll by.

It does the simplest thing that could possibly work. Within a scroll listener, it ...

  • ... identifies promoted tweets by the 'Ad' label at the top of the tweet,
  • ... opens the tweets context menu,
  • ... and clicks the mute button

Extension safety

Risk impact

Promute requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Promute has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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