Merlin
Block Twitter Promoted

Block Twitter Promoted

Block promoted contents including tweets, trends, and, follows, hide more annoying contents, switch to Latest Tweets for home page on Twitter. (Only support new redesigned UI)

What is Block Twitter Promoted?
Block Twitter Promoted is a Firefox add-on designed to enhance your Twitter usage. It effectively hides promoted contents including tweets, trends, and follows from your timeline, providing an ad-free browsing experience. The extension allows you to customize what you see on your feed and by default, only hides promoted contents. Other features, such as hiding suggested tweets and trends, can be enabled in the options page. The extension supports only the new Twitter UI. It respects your privacy as it does not collect any data or requires internet access to work.
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By: 田生
Users: 1,063 ▲ 6
Rating: 4.79 (14)
Version: 0.1.18 (Last updated: 2022-02-02)
Creation date: 2019-11-26
Weekly download count: 12
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • https://twitter.com/*
  • https://mobile.twitter.com/*
Size: 15.28K
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# 3059 ▼ 13
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Features

This extension may:

✓ Hide promoted contents (enabled by default) ✓ Hide suggestion tweets on timeline (e.g. Someone liked tweet) ✓ Hide modules on timeline (e.g. Who Follow) ✓ Hide cards in trends ✓ Always show Latest Tweets instead of top Tweets

Only Hiding promoted contents is enabled by default. You may enable / disable these features in the options page of this extension.

This extension only supports the new Twitter UI.

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Pros
  • Removes tons of ads from Twitter
  • Makes Twitter usable again
  • Can hide unwanted and promoted content
Cons
  • The add-on only hides promoted content, does not block them
  • The name of the add-on is considered misleading
  • It breaks the 'infinite scroll', allowing users to only see one page of tweets
Most mentioned
  • Removes ads from Twitter
  • Makes Twitter usable
  • Does not block promoted content but only hides them
  • Breaks the 'infinite scroll' feature
Recent reviews
by tophale, 2023-10-17
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Safety
Risk impact

Block Twitter Promoted is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Block Twitter Promoted if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Block Twitter Promoted has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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Block Twitter Promoted