Blocks unwanted news stories from appearing in your Google News feed.

Latest Version

Version
3.11
Update
January 31, 2019
Size
154KiB
Developer
Category
Users
3,000+
Rating
4.69298 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Tabs
*://*/*
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Good News Extension

It blocks unwanted news stories from appearing in your Google news feed. Add keywords and key phrases as patterns to block. Then, any headlines or leads that contain those patterns will be hidden from view. To restore them, either remove the pattern or click the \"show\" link at the top of the news feed.

Import my list as a starter - https://pastebin.com/dh9TuPsL

What's new-
06/2018
- first word bug
- attempt to prevent overly simple keywords
05/2018
- started handling new layout
07/2017
- much faster
- can hide notification
- works with new redesign
- added \"Silent Mode\"
- UI tweaks
- now applies to all regions (*://news.google.*)

It largely borrows from Personal Blocklist (by Google)

Keyword muting, trump, kardashian, block
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "author": "Seth Thompson", "background": { "scripts": [ "common.js" ] }, "browser_action": { "default_icon": "images/icon48.png", "default_popup": "manager.html", "default_title": "Good News" }, "content_scripts": [ { "js": [ "common.js", "content_script.js" ], "matches": [ "*://*/*" ], "run_at": "document_start" } ], "default_locale": "en", "description": "Blocks unwanted news stories from appearing in your Google News feed.", "icons": { "128": "images/icon128.png", "16": "images/icon16.png", "48": "images/icon48.png" }, "manifest_version": 2, "name": "Good News", "permissions": [ "tabs", "*://*/*" ], "version": "3.11"}
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User reviews

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Jeff Green (ID: 00000024e6144bd2) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 10/22/2023 When I added terms to it that I didn't want to see, it worked. However, I recently noticed that many of these terms were showing up. I didn't understand why, and I didn't check this extension to see what the problem was. Today, I saw a new item that I wasn't interested in, so I went to add it to this extension, and I noticed that ALL of my previous entries had been wiped clean. I don't know what happened, but probably two years or so worth of entries were simply gone. That's not acceptable. If that's a flaw in this extension, it means that this is an extension that doesn't belong in the Play Store. To sum up, when it was working, it was working just fine, but when I discovered that all my entries had vanished, that made this a really problematic extension. Edit: It happened a second time. I added terms back into the database, and w/in a few weeks, they'd disappeared. I'm uninstalling this addon, b/c I don't trust it not to harm my browser.

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Risa Pesavento (ID: 00000091e389c193) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/04/2023 Amazing

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Kris (ID: 0000000e96d6ced7) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/24/2023 Thank you very much! Works great. Now how can I get this on my phone?!

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Michael Lark (ID: 000000ade0fc8a70) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 10/05/2022 Not bad, but it doesn't seem to work for all words or phrases. For example, I downloaded this because for some reason Google thinks I am interested in a particular celebrity divorce. So I added the names of the celebrities, in several different configurations, and I am still getting those stupid articles. I wish it worked better.

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Kurt Reno (ID: 000000d8d39b6b81) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 05/24/2022 Brilliant! Google News "show me fewer" does nothing, but this extension rid me of every Kardashian story like magic! THANK YOU!