<story><title>Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19</title><url>https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/phagocyte/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lhdj</author><text>I was literally developing the exact same thing (I called it Novid-19 [1]). While testing it out on HN, I saw a post filtered out.&lt;p&gt;It was this post...&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;christoshadjiaslanis&amp;#x2F;novid-19&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;christoshadjiaslanis&amp;#x2F;novid-19&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19</title><url>https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/phagocyte/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonv</author><text>I keep a long list of blocked words in Twitter, Feedly, and I try... as much as I can, to only consume news on reuters.com (and 4 print weeklies). I block CNN and Facebook in my hosts file.&lt;p&gt;And yet, I&amp;#x27;m barraged on the web with celebrity news, popular news, Tiger King (never clicked on it, never wanted it, can&amp;#x27;t get away from it), whatever the foamy coffee thing that&amp;#x27;s big right now.&lt;p&gt;I know about the shelters in place. I knew not to bring my re-usable bags to the grocery this morning.&lt;p&gt;The whole of media, content, everything you see when you open your browser and leave the house, is a monumental barrage of trending, overwhelming, unavoidable content. Memes you can&amp;#x27;t get away from but which you&amp;#x27;ll see hundreds, thousands of times.&lt;p&gt;Whatever people need to do to get away from it... you&amp;#x27;ll still get it, but if you choose and are aware of the filters you use, by all means.</text></comment>