Facebook apps Unbaby Me and Unpolitic Me are now a unified Google Chrome extension called Rather. The Rather congif is now accessed via a discreet grey “r” on your Web browser’s toolbar. Adding new keywords is very clunky, and needs to be better handled. Setting up the replacement cats is also a pain: http://instagram.com/tags/tabbycat/feed/recent.rss from your old UnBabyMe doesn’t work, it has to be #tabbycat. Even when #tabbycat is accepted, replacements don’t seem to be made. I might go back to Unpolitic.me, frankly, as it seems a lot more straightforward.
But for those willing wrestle with it, Rather is claimed as…
“the most robust system ever created for blocking the things that bother you on Facebook and Twitter by replacing them with things you’d rather see, like cats.”
by David Haden
05 Nov 2013 at 00:36
Ugh, now the makers have updated the old Unpolitic.me, and added a script that hijacks my browser home page and directs it to a huge ad telling people they have to upgrade to Rather. Foul behaviour, even before you discover that Rather can access “all your data on all websites”. I deleted Unpolitic.me, and won’t be using Rather.
by David Haden
05 Nov 2013 at 01:05
Found a good alternative for keyword blocking, which I had all the time, F.B. Purity. Doesn’t replace content with cats, though…
http://www.fbpurity.com/