[HN Gopher] Show HN: XDeck - An ad-blocking client app for macOS...
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Show HN: XDeck - An ad-blocking client app for macOS, like
TweetDeck
Hi everyone, XDeck is an client app for macOS as a TweetDeck
alternative, with Ad-Blocking! I developed this for myself after
feeling disappointed that TweetDeck has become a paid service. I
hope you find it useful too.
Author : morishin
Score : 60 points
Date : 2024-06-13 15:51 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| genericacct wrote:
| I miss tweetdeck... maybe not $8/mo miss, but maybe 9.99/yr miss
| it
| greggh wrote:
| If the ads on Twitter were even close to relevant I wouldn't mind
| just scrolling past them. But every ad I see lately is just
| right-wing idiocy like PragerU.
| askl wrote:
| Who else would still want to advertise on twitter?
| LukaD wrote:
| I don't understand why people even use twitter at all at this
| point.
| 2malaq wrote:
| Bubbles, my friend.
| walthamstow wrote:
| Addiction to scrolling
| acheong08 wrote:
| That's probably not it. I still have Twitter because the
| people I follow are on there (mostly music artists). I've
| never opened the algorithmic feed. There is also a huge
| chance that much of the activity you see are bots. I have
| 0 posts and 2000 followers somehow. No way they're human
| walthamstow wrote:
| It's not it for you, but it sounds like you are more of
| an edge case. I think it is true for a lot of people.
|
| I don't see any activity myself, I don't use Twitter any
| more. I had an addiction which peaked with the UK 2019
| election and I had to quit after that. It's an awful drug
| which gives no high and terrible side effects.
| jeffhuys wrote:
| Please be aware that the both of you don't know, unless
| you're not mentioning any studies on purpose. You're both
| projecting your own subjective experience onto an entire
| community.
| acheong08 wrote:
| You're right. Did some googling and it seems I'm wrong.
|
| https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/doomscrolling-
| impact...
|
| > 53% of Gen Z "doomscroll" and 31% of adults in general
| do so.
|
| Now I understand how Facebook/Twitter are worth so much.
| This is crazy
| itsoktocry wrote:
| > _I don't understand why people even use twitter at all at
| this point._
|
| Because it hasn't really changed for me. Some things are
| better (less censorship), some things are worse (bots and
| spam). But the overall signal is the same.
| zogrodea wrote:
| All my friends are on there and haven't switched to another
| site. Some nice features are definitely getting removed
| from it though (like being able to hide a tweet so only a
| subset of your followers can see it).
| henriquecm8 wrote:
| I use mostly to follow indie game devs, to follow their
| progress and not miss announcements of release dates, and
| also a few artists.
| huimang wrote:
| Japan's crazy mascot, Chiitan, the god of advertising
| itsoktocry wrote:
| > _But every ad I see lately is just right-wing idiocy like
| PragerU._
|
| Any ideas why the algorithm is feeding you those ads?
|
| I agree the ads suck, but I'm mostly getting drop-shipping junk
| and crypto.
| bluish29 wrote:
| I really think the question is why wouldn't you block those
| ads using something like ublock origin or adguard (admittly
| you will lose using the app which is better for some people)
| but you solve your greatest point of pain.
| jeffhuys wrote:
| I think the original question is valid here - I also don't
| get any right-wing ads. I guess that is because I never
| interact with those kind of post, also not negatively,
| exactly BECAUSE I want to see less of them.
| dwighttk wrote:
| Twitter still allows you to mute/block any advertiser...
| I've seen fewer big companies that make a million
| throwaway accounts for advertising to make it hard to
| mute. Any ad account I notice more than a couple times
| gets muted, Twitter asks me if I want to upgrade to paid
| and I ignore that.
| thedumbname wrote:
| It show me white screen, is it expected?
| thedumbname wrote:
| Totally forgot that X is blocked in my country, but app does
| not aware and does not display any connection errors
| sdfhbdf wrote:
| Pakistan?
| rcarmo wrote:
| Well, I certaintly find it useful since I've removed X from my
| phone but still want to peer inside on occasion (a few people
| whose posts I value refuse to move to Mastodon and I don't want
| to use Threads or Bluesy), so this is pretty useful. The ads have
| become so obnoxious that being able to just have "Following" open
| without hassles feels refreshing.
| dwighttk wrote:
| Refuse? Or tried and it was so complicated it didn't work?
| kstrauser wrote:
| If you can use Twitter and email, you're capable of using
| Mastodon.
| rcarmo wrote:
| Tell that to the folk who are still on Twitter...
| kstrauser wrote:
| I can't. I deleted my account when it went sideways.
| swores wrote:
| "Capable of" isnt the same as "is willing to".
| dwighttk wrote:
| It's been ~three years since the last try, but I've made
| multiple mastodon accounts and none of them took
| adleyjulian wrote:
| Are you saying this is due to not having an interest in
| the people posting on Mastodon or due to a difficulty in
| using Mastodon itself?
| 1oooqooq wrote:
| mastodon is beyond broken. also, network effect.
|
| it's fine for cyber security content and furry con.
| besides that, everyone's on meta or xitter.
| TheCleric wrote:
| My feet are capable of walking 100 miles. I'm still not
| going to do that.
| brianjking wrote:
| Are we violating TOS by using this?
| mtnGoat wrote:
| If you are hiding ads, chances are high you are violating TOS.
| phoronixrly wrote:
| I wouldn't have it any other way
| 1oooqooq wrote:
| barely. you're more helping them by keeping the network effect
| going despite how hostile to users they make it.
|
| for one high quality person they retain thanks to this, they
| can abuse other one thousand who will also stay because of that
| person.
|
| basically, they will moan it will be shut down but there won't
| be any true effort
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| As Twitter and Reddit were going user-hostile past the point of
| no return last year I fought it for a while with actions like
| these. But eventually giving up and ditching them completely was
| unavoidable and, in hindsight, freeing.
| dotcoma wrote:
| The same is true of Facebook, Google etc.
| prmoustache wrote:
| For some reason, the fight of most social media against any
| third party way to access them comfortably helped people like
| me finding the motivation to get rid of them altogether.
| kstrauser wrote:
| Same. I left Reddit when they killed Apollo. In retrospect it
| was a blessing.
| Groxx wrote:
| Yep. Instagram has been so hostile up logged-out people that
| it drove me away, and I actively recommend businesses avoid.
| Prior to this, quite a few small businesses I ran across used
| Instagram as their website, but it's completely useless if
| people can't see anything.
| soylentcola wrote:
| Pretty much. I ditched my Facebook account in 2017 and
| never really messed with IG. At some point I just wasn't
| seeing much of what I liked about the site initially (a
| feed of what friends and acquaintances were up to) and
| didn't find it worth the tradeoff - lots of companies are
| skeevy, but I might continue using their products if I get
| something out of them. Didn't find FB to be worth it.
|
| But still, I'm in a few long running group chats with
| friends and maybe 60-70% of the links people post are to
| Meta sites. Can't access even though it's almost always
| just something reposted from a (openly accessible) website.
|
| The bots and the spam ruining platforms is bad enough.
| Putting such a large chunk of actual online human
| conversation behind login-walls has seriously put a dent in
| things. I feel like this is the other half of the whole
| "search engines suck now because of ML-generated/SEO-
| optimized junk" argument. There's nothing to balance that
| stuff out because you need a sketchy persistent,
| personally-identifiable account to access the rest.
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