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Installing this extension will block all websites that Rupert Murdoch controls.
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NEW FIREFOX VERSION: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/bye-rupert/
Every day hundreds of thousands of Australians read online content that has been designed by News Corp to manipulate their readers views in order to push a political agenda. We've seen it in the past with the 2013 Federal Election, the National Broadband Network, the 2018/2019 Australian bush fires and more. When it comes to politics, Australians deserve an unbiased, fair report of proceedings, NOT low quality "journalism" that aims to make a man who renounced his Australian citizenship more money.
I made "Bye Rupert" in an attempt to stop giving his online businesses pageviews. Less pageviews lowers the amount of inventory the websites can sell which means revenue will drop. It will also allow users to support smaller websites that compete with News Corp who report the real facts without an agenda whilst having respect for their readers - something News Corp has long gone without. Put simply: installing this extension will block all websites that Rupert Murdoch controls.
Created by @matcarpenter
Latest reviews
- (2024-11-15) T B (Avatar): I don't normally write reviews for extensions, but this extension is doing the world a great service. A GREAT service. edit, is there going to be an update for this to deal with chrome's "best practices" update?
- (2023-05-10) Colby Stearns: This is great! Should be done for every major corporation really but Rupert Murdoch's influence is especially vile.
- (2022-08-31) Marc Raynor: It's important to block Rupert Murdoch and everyone should do it. It's like wearing a mask in the covid ward at the hospital, you don't want to get infected.
- (2021-12-09) Hex: Great little extension, install it on your parents computer so they stop talking gibberish!
- (2021-11-27) Spoony Mac: https://decider.com/ nol blocked. works ok
- (2021-10-30) Nintendo Dringus: Brilliant
- (2021-10-01) Jack McSomeone: It's really good, but I would like to be able to customise what sites are blocked. The only Murdoch owned service I will ever pay for is Kayo Sports, unless the Murdoch monopoly on sports coverage in Australia becomes no more
- (2021-09-23) Tan R: This extension is brilliant. I was clicking on many sites without knowing they were owned by Murdoch. I refuse to give money to a man who has done so much damage to democracy.
- (2021-08-15) Andrew J (rnodern): Thanks! I don't want to support anything owned by that POS. This makes boycotting so much simpler :)
- (2021-07-14) Lee Stevens: Should come as standard on every browser
- (2021-02-25) Kris Anderson: What a brilliant idea and a service you are doing our country.
- (2021-02-01) Awesome job, thanks!
- (2021-01-25) Some Man: giving it 1 star because you guys have broken the back button and if i am web searching, click on a link which is on the blacklist, i can't go back to the searches. do you guys not even use your own extension?
- (2021-01-22) Tarique: This is great! Is there something similar for fairfax?
- (2021-01-19) Luke: Installed for a better Australia, great idea dev.
- (2020-12-11) Alexander Cochrane: Great idea, works well, wish the block looked friendlier or had some humour to it! The block message feels very spammy
- (2020-11-13) Kath Beck: Losing one star because it blocks jobseekers from actually finding work which Seek doesn't have via careerone.com.au which jobactive uses . Need to start a whitelist option even if we don't like him.
- (2020-11-02) Cameron Bonde: Might be cool to highlight Murdoch sites in google searches. I also 2nd the idea of a button to show the archive.org or similar site
- (2020-11-01) PC Sanity Jeff Threlfall: Excellent extension! Works very well. I couldn't believe how many websites Murdoch controls - about 86!
- (2020-10-30) Jørgen Smith: Amazing. The list of sites it has access to checks out.
- (2020-10-28) Dr Frogga: It would be good if this came with Chrome by default :-) To allow one site, you need to manually select all other sites, would be good if the devs could fix that.
- (2020-10-05) Daniel Hanley: Just had a "Stokes" page blocked by this extension. PerthNow. Just lost 4 stars for me. Was 5 before this happened.
- (2020-09-22) Jess Varey: Amazing! Be-gone gutter trash journalism!
- (2020-09-11) Lisa: Love the premise, but just had to remove it because it blocks realestate.com. It's be great if you had a pause feature.
- (2020-07-02) Ahmed E: Thank you!
- (2020-04-14) Nick McKenzie: Awesome idea, great job!
- (2020-04-08) Toby Fothergill: Genius. Rupert is a verucous pustule of vitriol, nothing more.
- (2020-04-01) Mike Medhurst: Good to see. Sharing it.
- (2020-02-25) Philip Cheeseman: Great idea. Can you add the option for similar sites (From a UK point of view Daily mail/Express/Telegraph - They are equally vile and controlling)?
- (2020-02-01) Dan Muir: News.com.au is owned by Murdoch? still coming up in searches. Be great if you could get this working properly.
- (2020-01-22) Luke Mcgibbon: Great idea. Could we get a list of the sites it blocks? I'm not quite sure which media he owns. I just assume it's all the shittiest papers.
- (2020-01-20) Andris Dinsbergs: May this be a popular trend!
- (2020-01-19) Jarrad Thornton: Would be good if it had an option to direct links to archive.org or something that doesn't give them clicks.
- (2020-01-17) Jonathon Straz: Thanks for helping to rid the world of this corrupt scumbag and all he stands for. Let's all do our part to boycott #newscorpse
- (2020-01-16) Daniel Hillier: Stop Spreading Murdoch Lies with this extension!
- (2020-01-15) James Hudson: Fantastic idea. It's even more important with the Murdoch press's ongoing climate change denial in the face of real consequences. BTW, as of version 1.0.3 I checked this extension for any malicious code, but I did not find anything; additionally I think it's a well-programmed and slick Chrome extension.
- (2020-01-14) Kill Banquo: Amazing idea, needs an update for 2020 100%. funny how many people i know who've downloaded this in the passed couple of months even though its 2+ years old
- (2020-01-14) Chris Loch: This has made my life much better. It has reduced the amount of non-science claptrap and ex-furniture sales people's prognostications considerably. I also sleep easier knowing I am not contributing a single cent of revenue to an incredibly corrosive proto-fascist organization. I would have given the app 5 stars but it does not stop Rupert or his minions from continuing to poison the well of public discourse, both in Australia and abroad.
- (2020-01-13) Sam: Works perfectly. Going to spread the word far and wide about this little gem.
- (2020-01-13) Steve Werner: Brilliant - helping increase world intelligence :-)
- (2020-01-13) T Hooks: Absolutely love this and recommend frequently. Would love it to be updated as there's a few sites still not added to the block. Great work xxx
- (2020-01-10) Brint Paris: A stupidity blocker. I love it.
- (2020-01-08) Nathan Budd: Exceptional, useful tool for helping you avoid fake news and reporting rooted heavily in a single bias.
- (2020-01-07) Jordan Durzi: Please update to add all of the new sites too
- (2020-01-07) Emma Grogan: More reason than ever to get Rupert off your computer
- (2020-01-06) Angus Nicholls: A very necessary plugin. Time to block EvilCorps propaganda
- (2020-01-06) NinjaRhys: Share
- (2020-01-06) Corey Hellwege: Awesome! News Corp's vile propaganda should have no place online.
- (2020-01-03) iben Dover: This needs to be more popular
- (2020-01-02) ArcanaTXT: A few years ago I was hit with terminal canccer. Now after installing this extension, I am expected to make a full recovery.