Never-The-Same Reddit (beta) - a Google Chrome extension that deletes visited reddit links.
Have you ever wondered what reddit would be like if all links were always blue, all the time? Or, in other words, that links you had already clicked don't show up the next time you visit (or perhaps they even disappear right away)? This is actually one of the most popularly requested features on reddit, and yet until now there hasn't been a single technology that allowed for it. This is because recent improvements to javascript security make it impossible to detect what links a user has visited without writing a browser extension, and even browser extensions require jumping through many hoops to get it to work.
You might be wondering, if this is such a popular feature request, why doesn't reddit just support it? Of course they could detect what links you are clicking and allow you to choose whether or not you want to see them. We can only speculate, but the reddit developers probably feel that since you can choose not to see links that you've already upvoted or downvoted that their job is done, and they have more important work to do.
This, however, runs against the grain. The vast majority of internet users don't contribute content. Only a small minority contributes content, which you can easily prove to yourself by looking at the number of upvotes on posts on the front page (a few thousand per post at most) and compare that to the number of people who probably clicked that link - tens to hundreds of thousands or more.
Well, this extension is for the rest of us. I personally up and downvote sparingly. It's incomplete (see the issue tracker), but maybe we can make it into something nice and fancy. If you would like to contribute, please contact me - there are already bugs, such as some or all imgur links not getting nuked.
Brian Mingus brian.mingus@colorado.edu
== Instructions ==
This extension is still in development, so you must check it out and point Chrome to it.
Step 1) git clone https://github.com/brianmingus/nts-reddit.git
Step 2) In Chrome, navigate to Tools -> Extensions
Step 3) Click Load Unpacked Extension
Step 4) Navigate to the place that you checked out nts-reddit
Step 5) Click Enable
Step 6) Visit reddit!