Why detect Text?

[laiyanyi]

Is it possible to use the symbol(emoji?) before "promoted" text to detect ads? (they seems to using same pic in different lang)
And is it possible to apply to "What’s happening" Tab?

[ryanckulp]

thanks for the suggestion, i believe you're referring to the "up and to the right" arrow SVG? i'll investigate and respond here.

[ryanckulp]

@laiyanyi i hacked this together quickly but it seems to work well, and i also extended it to both "what's happening" promoted topics as well as "who to follow" promoted accounts.

here's a demo that shows a promoted topic + follow being removed once i begin scrolling my feed:

next steps

• before rolling this out to 5,000+ users i'd appreciate some beta testing
• are you comfortable setting up the extension + pointing it to this branch, locally on your computer?

[laiyanyi]

it works well on myside (traditional chinese)

[Lazza]

@laiyanyi you gave me a very nice idea for an ad-blocker compatible filter.

Thank you!

https://gist.github.com/Lazza/50af7eb641a0262931bca910c52fc6c6