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It blocks unwanted news stories from appearing in your Google news feed. Add keywords and key phrases as patterns to block. Then, any headlines or leads that contain those patterns will be hidden from view. To restore them, either remove the pattern or click the “show” link at the top of the news feed.
Import my list as a starter – https://pastebin.com/dh9TuPsL
What’s new-
06/2018
– first word bug
– attempt to prevent overly simple keywords
05/2018
– started handling new layout
07/2017
– much faster
– can hide notification
– works with new redesign
– added “Silent Mode”
– UI tweaks
– now applies to all regions (*://news.google.*)
It largely borrows from Personal Blocklist (by Google)
Keyword muting, trump, kardashian, block
It does remove selected stories with blocked words, however, Google news only gave a few stories per category on the front page and these removed stories do no get replaced. so essentially you end up with a blank page if you block Covid, Brexit & Trump.
This extension is way too aggressive; it hides the entire card (group of headlines for a topic) when it matches a keyword in the card. Even the example images show entire sections have disappeared, like the whole Fact Check panel.
I’m so glad I found this, I really didn’t want to see Entertainment stories in my news feed. Thank you again
I would argue this is the single most important plug in available for Google News. I was getting spammed with Kardashian and Bieber BS so much I subsdcribed to the Epoch Times to get away from it all. With this plug in I can at least weed out some BS. I hate that Google took away the ability to remove unwanted news sources or articles. I do not need to see Sports or Entertainment- I do not get off watching men in tights hug each other for a ball and I care less than 0% what Hollywood celebs have to say. In fact I pretty much go against Hollywood by default. So until Google allows humans control their news feeds this plug will have to Suffice.
finally something that really works to clear out unwanted news topics. in fact, you can watch the articles disappear in front of your eyes as you input that specific key word. not having any interest in SPORTS, I entered sports as a key word and they whole SPORTS category under Google News is gone! Extension still allows you too see what articles have been hidden if you want – it’s tempting!
if you could make the same with youtube please
After filtering a few terms the articles disappear but clicking on any links below saved searches gives me a blank page. I will hang in to see if this gets fixed I would love reading the news without feeling sick.
was working well for a few months….now when i open google news the entire page in empty.
When it works, it’s awesome. However, it breaks quite a bit and the developer seems to have vanished. Keeping the Kardashians away was fun while it lasted though.
Since Google News removed the option to remove categories and stuff like that it’s become horrible. I was about to give up on google news after seeing many others sharing the same frustrations (and also giving feedback that just gets ignored). This extension is what google news SHOULD have built in. Now I no longer have to scroll past stories about sport or the kardashians. The “see fewer stories like this” has never ever even come close to working, I don’t think it actually does anything at all to be honest.
THANK YOU FOR THIS EXTENSION! Where google has failed, you have won!
NO MORE Infotainment and Newsvertising. Goodbye Kardashian Kanye Swift iPhone Markle Jenner iPad
I have been trying for years to get the team at Google to stop shoving sports news in my face as I don’t like sports, don’t follow sports and will never read a sports story. The pleading fell on deaf ears (Or blind eyes). This extension removed the entire sports section just by entering the world ‘sports’ into the keyword section. I wish I found this years ago. Thank You.
Says what it does and does what it says 🙂 Love it! Nice, clean context menus, too.
This app allows you to do what Google is unable or unwilling to do: actually “see fewer” of the stories you don’t care about.
You are my hero. So tired of the social media BS news stories and Googles inability to efficiently block them from my feed.
Love it. It is easy to use and does the job very well. Just enter the keyword you want to omit and click add. Thereafter, any news headline which contains that word will no longer show.
I wish I had Good News for real life.
Thank you so much for this extension.
Sanity restored. Thank you dev! THANK YOU!
Tried 3 extensions, this is the only one that works.
This has been great for blocking nonsense, BUT recently it’s been behaving differently. In Google News, it blocks news stories that contain the blacklisted words, but the slot where the headline would be is still there – it’s blank, and the image is still displayed. Weird! If this gets fixed I’ll add a star.
Worked VERY well until yesterday. Now the article text is removed but the images remain.
Thank goodness for this extension! Will Cloud Sync be supported in a later release? It’s the one thing I really would like from this extension. Thanks again!
Excellent. Very clean and non-disruptive interface that does exactly what it advertises. I highly recommend