Rather
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Replace the things you hate on social media with things you'd rather see, like cats.
rather is a free, open source social filtering utility distributed under the GNU GPL 3.0 license.
Now you can block or mute:
Spoilers
Sports
Babies
Upworthy
Buzzfeed
Viralnova
Banksy
Weddings
Sonograms
Vacations
Twerking
Kanye
Football
Miley Cyrus
Cronuts
––You get the idea.
Features include:
-Global syncing across Chrome
-Multiple replacement content sources
-Global mute or replace
-Quickly turn rather on/off on Facebook/Twitter
"Thank god." - Vice
"They fixed the internet." - The New York Times
"Whoever made this deserves the friggin nobel prize." - Some chick on Twitter
Now get off this page and install rather and start blocking stuff.
Latest reviews
- Ben Noonan
- didn't work:[
- Stephane
- dont work, keep seeing the royal family and their baby archie everywere
- Julia Pasztohy
- It would have been a wonderful invention, except that it is not working!!!!
- Alex Beavers
- Doesnt work at all on FB.
- Guzz
- Preciso muito de um plugin desses, mas este infelizmente não funciona de jeito nenhum.
- Elizabeth
- This did not work at all. If I could rate lower than one star I would. My husband and I are struggling to have a baby, and I just couldn't stand to look at my feed and see all of the people that I know having children anymore. So, I was hoping that this would help. I put in the longest string of baby/pregnancy related words that I could come up with. No more than ten minutes later, I log onto Facebook to see the first post is about a pregnant co-worker's baby shower! I followed the instructions in the FAQ. I am extremely disappointed that this did not work, even following the creator's instructions.
- Autumn Fehl
- Couldn't get it to work at all. Followed the instructions in the FAQ and nothing.
- Anonymous
- Useless for Facebook. I've tried uninstalling & reinstalling, cache clearing, restarting... and all to no avail. Just wanted to block one simple word... Trump
- Bart Read
- Sad to say doesn't work at all in Chrome 55 on OSX. Tried to use it to filter out the deluge of Trump-related posts on facebook and it had absolutely no effect.
- Andrei Zdetoveţchi
- Does absolutely nothing to my facebook feed. Uninstalled, sorry... :(
- Irina Svetlowa
- Hi, I am interested in acquiring your extension "Rather". Please contact me at: [email protected]
- Adrian Flores
- I've still got Trump on my Facebook.
- Eddie Savage
- Update! Tried uninstalling and reinstalling again and it is now working. Thank you, thank you! You keep me sane! Hey, guys - this is super frustrating! The extension is installed (uninstalled and reinstalled) but it is no longer filtering my newsfeeds on Facebook or Twitter. Please help!
- Farrah Cañavera
- No volvi a ver a las Kardashian, se merecen 10 estrellas
- Marcy Harbut
- It worked for a few hours, and then just stopped.
- Mark
- If ever there was a right time for this to work I'd say around now with all the 'Pokemon GO' fever going on on Facebook. But it ain't helping me. Please MAKE IT STOP!
- claudia kapranos
- Thank you, fellas.
- AJ Johnston
- Doesn't work on Facebook for me.
- Candice B
- Useless for facebook. I've tried uninstalling & reinstalling, cache clearing, restarting... and all to no avail. Absolutely none of the filter lists work. I can't speak to its usefulness on Twitter.
- Grant Bacaltos
- My feed's a lot happier now. I can choose to replace things I'd rather not see with cute animals or Pokemon. A minor inconvenience though, is that the blacklisted word needs to be exact (except for casing I think). So if you blacklisted "Blah" then the word "Blah2016" will still be displayed on your feed. You have to include both on your blacklist.
- Jordan Khan
- Awesome! It's not perfect but man, It has saved me from all the baby pictured out there. Thank you so much. You've saved my friendships because now I don't have to block, un follow or resent them lol
- Marc Zero
- doesn't work.
- Luci Delazeri
- Cumpre o que promete :)
- Bjarb J
- It replaced content with pornograsphic images. I am pretty peeved seeing as I am at work and this could have been really bad for me. It was very offensive content from a porn website. I dont understand, but replacement list is very innocent, it includes alpacas, cats, animals, and sheep. I just wanted images of animals rather than the kardashians and I get something even more offensive than that!
- Stoo Sepp
- Doesn't seem to work.