ClickbaitBlock

blocks you from going to a clickbait site!

ClickbaitBlock - Block Clickbait Sites

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.
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Extension stats

Users: 181
Rating: 3.80
(5)
Version: 0.0.12 (Last updated: 2016-02-05)
Creation date: 2016-02-04
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
Size: 24.52K

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Extension summary

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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

I'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

Well 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
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Extension 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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