mguida22/buzzkill

:zap: Down with Buzzfeed

Buzzkill

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A google chrome extension to change clickbait titled articles. No more distracting links on Facebook or anywhere else!

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Philosophy

The goal of this project is to promote better news.

Sites such as BuzzFeed do anything they can to get views, at the cost of good journalism. Clickbait titles are used as a way to draw in readers, often using phrases that provide no information but spark someones interest. Once a user is viewing an article, they do not care about informing the reader about the issue. There is little content for articles, none of which is backed by facts and references. This does not help educate readers and further their knowledge. We aim to encourage readers to seek better news sources and authors to write better articles.

Running Locally

Feel free to run locally to make and test changes. We welcome all new issues and pull requests.

• Clone this repo to your computer
• Open chrome and go to chrome://extension to view all of your chrome extensions
• Check the box to turn on 'Developer Mode'
• Click 'Load unpacked extension' and locate Buzzkill
• To reload after making changes click the 'Reload' button under the Buzzkill name on your extensions page.

License

MIT

Icon used under MIT License from iconfinder

buzzkill's Issues

Setup Analytics

We can use the analytics package for chrome extensions

Support for regex matching

Allow for regex matching to capture combinations or phrases that might otherwise be hard to get. This can also help with similar phrases where only the subject changes.

Remove Clickhole

Some people have requested to remove Clickhole from the list of blocked sites.

Update on page refresh

Better storage of dictionary terms

Blacklist sites

Ex. buzzfeed.com, clickworthy.com

Style Popup

Add some style to the popup and make it look good

Whitelisted websites won't store without a backslash following URL

Faster Matching

This takes quite some time to match on different pages. We need to find ways to optimize it and be more selective with what we try matching.

FB Likes show up as 'Junk Article'

Multiple links should be replaced once

If there are multiple links (ex. picture and title on Facebook) they all get replaced. This makes a cascading effect which looks pretty bad.

Inserts slider onto page

The slider gets put onto the page here http://www.colorado.edu/

cc @agent-reed

Better README / Chrome ext. page

We need a more descriptive readme and chrome ext. page. This should include:

• Better description
• Instructions to run locally
• Screenshot(s)
• Philosophy/goals/plans
• How to help

Generate random titles

Let's replace articles with more creative names

Whitelist sites

Github, mail.google.com, etc. shouldn't get blocked.

Slider has no title

It's not clear what the slider does from looking at it

Need blacklist for Facebook (maybe other sites)

Facebook uses phrases such as 19 people liked this and 102 reviews and they get flagged as a clickbait style title. We need a way to distinguish what are good features of Facebook and what can still be blocked.

Revisit Url Blocking

Might be worth blocking, because it appears so frequently. We shouldn't just try to block this, let's find a better way to flag urls than the current solution.

On that first link there's probably some work we can do to improve the dictionary.

Ex:
http://diply.com/bartender
http://diply.com/bartender/article/cats-photoshopped-over-booze
http://theodysseyonline.com/southern-miss/6-things-for-the-man-marry/200613 (also the odyssey)