Mostly used for productivity rehab, the tool can block just about any leak/spoiler source for the next 10 days.īe safe, be wary, and most importantly, be spoiler-free.2021s The Block. Need a nuclear option? Strip down your internet usage to the bare essentials using Block Site. uBlock Origin is another handy app, which can be rewired from an ad-blocker to be a spoiler blocker (and Reddit’s most cautious users are happy to walk you through how). To mass-block on desktop, try the Keyword Blocker or Video Blocker Chrome extensions, which can mute pages or keywords with the tap of a few keys. Simply opening the video site/app is a recipe for spoiler disaster - if you’ve watched Marvel or Marvel-adjacent videos in the past, there’s a very strong chance that someone’s leak reactions or spoiler dissection videos will be auto-populating your recommendations bar. What a life! Rik Harink/Keyword Blocker Hiding spoilery videos on YouTube Our best practice suggestion: Stop reading the comments, and maybe pick a fight with every hyper-political relative you have at your disposal to clog your feed with unrelated posts.
There’s no dedicated mute tool, so users should either hard-mute or snooze precarious accounts in anticipation of leak sharing, or install the Social Fixer extension to mute preloaded keywords and phrases. Avoiding spoilers on FacebookĪs on Tumblr, minimizing spoiler interactions on Facebook becomes a curation game. A pop-up will appear and ask you if you want to remove the tag.Īll this being said, not every Tumblr user tags their posts! Be warned as you venture forth, and perhaps begin to tag your own reblogs. Unlike desktop, there is no remove button, so to remove a tag from your filter list, just tap the word again. Tap “general settings.” The last option before the “Uploading & Downloading” section will be “Filtering.” Tapping that will lead you to a nearly blank page, where you’ll hit the “+New” button in order to add tags. Once you’re there, click the settings icon at the top right. If you’re a mobile user, click the human icon to navigate to your blog page. If you follow accounts likely to share Marvel images, GIFs, and videos, you can also censor them using the magnifying glass icon on mobile, finding an account name, and using the Follow drop-down to find the “block” option. Users can also install the Tumblr Savior extension to create a blacklist of keywords and phrases. Type the phrases and words you want to block (“Avengers,” “Endgame,” for instance) and select add. To filter tags on Tumblr, navigate to “Account Settings” by clicking the little human icon at the top right of the screen and selecting “Settings” from the drop-down menu. To mute these channels from appearing in your feed, find the “filter” button on r/all and add the names of the subreddits.īrie Larson says Avengers: Endgame is ‘personally dear to’ her, even compared to Captain Marvel Avengers IP, Assemble: how Marvel reclaimed X-Men, Spider-Man, and more Filtering tags on Tumblr Currently on the radar and known for past infractions:
There are handful of subreddits that will be busting out the spoilers before Endgame’s release, and trolls will code spoilers using unrelated tags (as we documented around Infinity War, subreddits like r/ImGoingToHellForThis were filled with Star Wars: The Last Jedi posts that actually straight-up spoiled the Avengers threequel). To take the silence to the next level, consider muting one-word hashtags (“#AvengersEndgame”), emoji (a hammer in place of Thor’s name), and blanket terms (“footage,” “trailer”) until you’ve really ended the game, so to speak. If, for example, you don’t want to know anything about Thanos until Endgame, your muted terms page could look something like: From there, you can input certain terms, phrases, and individual words you don’t want to see on your timeline. Select “settings and privacy” from the dropdown menu, and then click on the “muted accounts” tab to the left. To snap your fingers, log onto Twitter and click on your profile. Not only can you hard-mute any potential spoiler-slinging follows off your timeline, but keyword targeting makes it easy to wipe out the pre-release talk. How to mute Twitter phrasesĪnyone fearing leaked Endgame plot points should wield Twitter’s mute function like an Infinity Gauntlet. But how can purists put their heads down in the age of social media algorithms and auto-populating videos broadcast by leak-fueled talking heads? It’s a chore, but here are a few recommendations for anyone navigating the increasingly tricky spoiler minefield. In theory, trust should be the force that binds Avengers fans. #DontSpoilTheEndgame /YZhbrwcijJ- Russo Brothers April 16, 2019