[HN Gopher] Show HN: uBlock filter list to blur all Instagram Reels
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Show HN: uBlock filter list to blur all Instagram Reels
A filter list for uBO that blurs all video and non-follower content
from Instagram. Works on mobile with uBO Lite. related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016443
Author : shraiwi
Score : 79 points
Date : 2026-03-02 19:50 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (gist.github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (gist.github.com)
| apples_oranges wrote:
| i was hoping Instagram would add a toggle to get rid of this
| stuff!
| xeckr wrote:
| Too bad that would hurt their bottom line.
| in_a_hole wrote:
| On the mobile app you can tap the Instagram logo and there's an
| option to show only posts from your follows. It's not sticky,
| unfortunately.
|
| Also if you're on android I recommend:
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| distractionfreeapps.com/
|
| They make a bootleg version of the app with the ability to
| remove certain feeds, e.g. reels, discover, stories
| iib wrote:
| It's sticky on the web though:
|
| https://www.instagram.com/?variant=following
| kgwxd wrote:
| I did something similar for myself a few years ago:
|
| ||instagram.com^
| hmokiguess wrote:
| I don't use the app so I confess I'm a little confused, I saw
| your screenshot and it seems like the end result is just
| scrolling through nothing. Why would you want that? Isn't it
| better to just not open it altogether? Like, block the entire
| thing? Why scroll through a bunch of blur
| Forgeties79 wrote:
| Same reason people use app timers when they can elect to not
| use the app instead.
| shraiwi wrote:
| The screenshot was to demonstrate what blocked posts look like.
| I scrolled past the posts of my friends since I didn't want to
| dox them, but organic posts do show up near the top of my feed.
|
| The goal isn't to scroll through nothing, but rather have a
| clean feed that shows me just my friends and nothing else.
| SirMaster wrote:
| So why blur and not just hide?
| yard2010 wrote:
| It says in the post OP didn't want to fix the layout (and
| it is implied that empty space is less friendly than
| blurred content)
| maurelius2 wrote:
| > I'm trying to make Instagram be what my parents said Facebook
| was. Christ, I'm old.
| varenc wrote:
| From the gist:
|
| > I'm trying to make Instagram be what my parents said Facebook
| was
|
| This sure makes me feel old. It's a great goal though. I miss the
| golden era of Facebook when it was really just friend content.
| sodapopcan wrote:
| It took a nosedive the day the news feed was released. I
| remember people were angry about it and it's one of those
| things that didn't just take getting used to, it still sucks
| all these years later.
| kelnos wrote:
| > _I 'm trying to make Instagram be what my parents said Facebook
| was._
|
| Hell, you're trying to make Instagram be what Instagram used to
| be. Back in the early (pre-Meta) days, it was just a reverse-
| chronological feed of the posts from people you followed.
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| A decent part of why I bailed on Instagram back in 2019 or so was
| because it had stopped being this for a while (posts reordered,
| some not even shown, so many ads).
| hbn wrote:
| You can still get a chronological feed if you tap the Instagram
| logo at the top and click "Following"
|
| But you can't turn that mode on as a default, and it
| essentially kicks you from the normal app hierarchy into a
| separate barebones screen. I find it's all for naught anyway
| because my friends have long since stopped making regular posts
| on Instagram, it's more common to use stories.
| CincinnatiMan wrote:
| Do Stories show up differently than posts? Asking as someone
| that has not used Instagram beyond looking at a few specific
| profiles.
| deafpolygon wrote:
| My solution is rather simple: don't use Instagram.
| spike021 wrote:
| there are plenty of positive things that can come from using a
| platform like Instagram.
| dylan604 wrote:
| That's what they said about facebook. That's what they said
| about twitter. Not once has it actually been true for me.
| gutafoki wrote:
| I think this is already possible. You can snooze suggestions and
| then if you scroll to the top of Instagram, you can select
| "Following" instead of "For you". Maybe this is not possible in
| browsers though, I've only ever done this on my phone.
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