Block the Blue – Twitter Verified Blocker
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- 24 minutes ago | 24 points | 0 comments
- URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/block-the-blue-twitter-ve/ppoilcngmmnmdhgnejcnpohiabajclgn
- Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37447892
- Summary: The Chrome Web Store offers an extension called "Block The Blue - Twitter Verified Blocker" which automatically blocks users verified by Twitter Blue. The extension ignores organizational verifications and will block any blue verified users, inspired by the #BlockTheBlue campaign. The extension directly interacts with Twitter's DOM and briefly shows pop-ups of the blocking interface. It has a maximum limit of blocking 125,000 accounts.

@Aleums
you paid $8 to eat my ass stupid, #BlockTheBlue

Ah. Que ahora la gente en 𝕏Twitter puede tener el :verified: oculto. Que guay.

Si ya estaba practicando masivamente el #BlockTheBlue cuando eran fáciles de detectar (y con una extensión de Firefox), ahora ya voy a entrar en modo paranoico y bloquear a quien simplemente parezca sospechoso.

Tuit extendido: block.
Tuit con negritas: block.
Y así todo el rato.

Para quien tenga la duda, ahora mismo en twitter soy lector pasivo con CERO interacción.

What's probably even funnier, is the reason he's most likely decided to scrap the block option.

Not only did #BlockTheBlue trend for days on Twitter after the $8 subscription service went live, with people blocking any account with a checkmark.
But one of the most blocked users on Twitter, is the Apartheid beneficiary himself.

Cross posting from #Twitter...

> Suddenly feeling like the best reason to #BlockTheBlue is so you don't have to scroll down through all the stupid comments by people so unreasonable they need to buy #BlueChecks to be heard when you just want to see what the average person thinks about a post a celebrity made...

https://twitter.com/RockstarRaccoon/status/1693455743746199988

-#Musk bietet den Verifizierungshaken zum Abo an

-Der Verifizierungshaken pusht Reichweite und Schmutz wird jedem in die Timeline gespült

-#BlockTheBlue entsteht um dem Müll noch Herr zu werden

-Reichweite von #TwitterBlue Abonnenten sinkt

-Musk will die Blockfunktion löschen

Teniendo eso en cuenta, estoy bloqueando todo perfil con verificador azul y todo tuit patrocinado que me encuentro en la red del pájaro. Ya sabéis, #BlockTheBlue y todo eso, para no dar, con mis visualizaciones, visitas y dinero.

That moment when you realize that #BlockTheBlue is real and you have to do something about it because the wave has grown into a tsunami.

🤔

@esvrld Because plenty of those calling for #BlockTheBlue are already presupposed to oppose sex work on moral or "exploitation" grounds; and because not having Twitter Blue does block a user from some features that are useful for outreach.

Although, given how much Musk has tainted the app with his own Nazi/Alt-Right brand and fetish, it's increasingly not worth either the cost nor the association.

@flexghost

#BlockTheBlue

@nth_anomaly
I believe someone has set that up. I found the following extension for chrome, though I haven't tried it since I don't use chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/block-the-blue-twitter-ve/ppoilcngmmnmdhgnejcnpohiabajclgn

#BlockTheBlue

https://twitter.com/JUNlPER/status/1667335784196612098

> looks like we are going to have to renew #BlockTheBlue, rightwingers are going to use outrage and baiting us to make money. whenever this ad payment gets implemented you have to block bluecheck onsight and do not engage with the bluecheck. if you must dunk, screenshot the post

Not something I need fuss with, because I'm not planning on posting there again.

If you must be on the #hellsite KEEP ON speaking truth to power and BLOCK the BLUE CHECKS. #BlockTheBlue

Mal auf #Twitter unterwegs gewesen. Ist ja krasser als ich dachte, 95% der #twitterblue Nutzer sind wandelnde Klischees. Da denkt man schon über #blocktheblue nach... oder bleibt einfach hier bei #mastodon

A line was crossed today.

#twitter #elonmusk #twitterbuyout #blocktheblue

Some important caveats about the #BlockTheBlue movement on Twitter, and some of the marginalised groups who are using paid accounts there, though not necessarily displaying the blue badge, and why:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/02/sex-workers-explain-why-blue-check-stigma-and-blocktheblue-arent-so-straightforward/

Even more reason to #BlockTheBlue

Verified Twitter Accounts Spread Misinfo About Imminent Nuclear Strike https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjd4y/verified-twitter-accounts-spread-misinfo-about-imminent-nuclear-strike

Sex workers explain why blue check stigma and #BlockTheBlue aren’t so straightforward https://tcrn.ch/44ofaVm #press

Sex workers explain why blue check stigma and #BlockTheBlue aren’t so straightforward https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/02/sex-workers-explain-why-blue-check-stigma-and-blocktheblue-arent-so-straightforward/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Sex workers explain why blue check stigma and #BlockTheBlue aren’t so straightforward https://tcrn.ch/422tK35 by @asilbwrites #press