ClickbaitBlock
blocks you from going to a clickbait site!
What is ClickbaitBlock?
ClickbaitBlock is a Chrome extension that blocks your access to clickbait sites. It helps you avoid deceptive and misleading content by implementing a block feature. Get rid of clickbait and stay focused on quality content with ClickbaitBlock.
Extension stats
By: Tiago Medeiros
Rating: 3.80
(5)
Creation date: 2016-02-04
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- webRequest
- webRequestBlocking
- http://*/*
- https://*/*
Size: 24.52K
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Extension summary
Blocks your from going into clickbait sites.
See this for more information on clickbait : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait
This Plugin is open-sourced under the GPLV2 License : https://github.com/medeirosT/clickbaitblock
Any suggestions welcome! Last update from Github : February 5th, 2016
User reviews
innefective
by 
Michal Palczewski, 2015-07-02
Michal Palczewski, 2015-07-02I'm happy it's open source and can be improved, but it doesn't work very well in blocking clickbait because it's often shorturl'd and this only runs before page load - doesn't stop you from seeing or clicking the links.
Would be much more effective if it would find links, resolve their hosts, and then style those elements away. Even better if it handled social media in a sexy way, such as overlaying ontop of the expanded twitter and facebook links rather than just the text url.
Food for thought, would be way more work than this was to make and I don't have the patience to do it myself :p Thanks for the cool extension though, might use it as a starting point to learn how to make extensions of my own...
by 
A Google user, 2015-05-12
A Google user, 2015-05-12Well executed, needs more options, like adding own sites to block list. You wouldn't believe how many click bait sites Sweden has....
by 
Georgy Sabanov, 2015-02-12
Georgy Sabanov, 2015-02-12Extension safety
Risk impact
ClickbaitBlock requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
ClickbaitBlock has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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