2) Open the Userscripts app, choose "Set Userscripts Directory." Click the three dots on the top right and select "New folder" and name it something like "Scripts." Choose open to set the script directory for Userscripts.
3) Go to https://pastebin.com/09HFVxUL and select download at the top to download the script to your device. Once the file is downloaded, select "Open in" and then "Save to Files" and save it in the Scripts folder you created in Step 2.
4) Now, open Safari. Select the AA icon in the address bar and select Manage Extensions and then enable Userscripts. You'll receive a security prompt and you'll have to select something like "enable for all sites."
Unfortunately Google doesn't support extensions on the mobile version of Chrome, so out of luck there. There are also apps that run user scripts on Android but I don't have one so haven't tested it yet.
Date: April 16th, 2023 9:38 PM Author: Bearded Ape
I will look into the feasibility of a feature that allows you to block posts by certain users. However, off the top of my head, there are some challenges with that given that users can rapidly change their name AND xo anonymizes posts after a few months.
Date: April 16th, 2023 5:47 PM Author: ponyboy curtis ( (If I May TP))
Chrome doesn't support extensions, but Kiwi Browser on Android does. I've got extensions for bypassing the NYT paywalls and now I have the nullospam-killer. Works great.
Date: April 16th, 2023 4:20 PM Author: Snowy aromatic coffee pot
Having read the code, it seems like this works by searching each thread for a small extract of the spam post. Would be easy to circumvent this by spammers changing their spam very slightly (e.g. adding extra space).
Date: April 16th, 2023 4:27 PM Author: Bearded Ape
Yes, absolutely. However there are more sophisticated strategies to mitigate that if it starts happening.
We could simply remove any post over a certain number of characters to eliminate long spam posts that make scrolling annoying. Or we could use a library that checks for text similarity (e.g. https://www.npmjs.com/package/string-similarity ), as was mentioned in the other thread.
Date: April 16th, 2023 11:54 PM Author: Bearded Ape
If they can then they should. This is just a client side solution that reduces the impact of spammers. I’m a long time poster and thought it would be a fun project given that spam is so common on here now.