"Block The Rich" is like an ad-blocker, but for obscenely wealthy people with overinflated egos.

aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.world – 1916 points –

About 8 months ago I got pretty tired of seeing billionaire spam online. I could not bear to read about yet another rich guy who launched themselves (or their $200,000 car) into outer space 🚀 . I did not care about their expert opinion on the latest meme coin back then. I do not care about their expert opinion on the dangers of AI today.

So... I developed a tiny, free, and open source Firefox browser add-on called "Block the Rich". It is completely local and private. No data is tracked. No data is phoned home.

The concept is pretty simple: whenever I load a web page, the extension quickly analyzes the content and intelligently blurs out any references to the Forbes Top 10 Billionaires. Some former and wannabe billionaires are blurred out of courtesy as well (I'm looking at you Trump and Kanye 🙄).

This project is a very early prototype that I built in the span of a few days. I have so many awesome ideas for enhancements but the truth is that the wind got completely knocked out of my sails when I put myself out there on Reddit many moons ago. There was absolutely zero public interest. To this day my wife and I are the only ones using the original prototype.

People of Lemmy, do you think there is a place on the internet for such a project, or is it time that I let it go?

Edit: I am blown away by the support from you all. Thank you! I am so excited to start polishing this baby up!

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I think you're supposed to get angry, not ignore them.

Nah, let's put our fingers in our ears while we get fucked in the ass.

I hope you stay up all night, every night, sitting around very very angrily. That'll show them!

Nah, let's look at daily screenshots of Elon's tweets while we get fucked in the ass. In the end, aren't we still getting fucked?

I'd rather schedule the fuckings for 9pm Sunday evenings when I disable my plugin for 30 minutes and catch up.

Why can't I do both? 😊

I am already protesting so many of their services and products.

I do not wish for their stream of consciousness to invade my internet 24/7. I can easily disable my plugin and get a general idea of what they've been up to whenever I feel like it.