How to avoid Game of Thrones and Avengers: Spoilers Endgame

The internet is full of spoilers, making it a dangerous place to hang out if you try to avoid what is happening in Avengers: End game, Game of Thronesor other TV shows, movies or video games that you are catching up with. Even when you think you're in control, Google's AutoComplete feature has already been ruined. URLs can also contain spoilers.

In addition, trolls can incorporate spoilers into unrelated content. When Star Wars: The awakening of the force Release of the movie, the biggest plot of the film was hidden in a deceptive video titled "LMAO funny Madden 16 glitches." (Needless to say, there was no funny movie Madden problems to find.)

Of course, the most logical suggestion to avoid them is to simply log out indefinitely, but this will not happen.

There are many ways to stay without a spoiler without restricting the use of your computer or your phone. If you spend a lot of time on Twitter, mute keywords is a simple but granular solution. Facebook does not allow the filtering of specific keywords, although you can repeat the groups you follow for 30 days if there is one that usually shares spoilers.

If you want more extensive protection on the Web, it takes the form of browser extensions. With support for major browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, these allow you to draw the line on what you want to see online.

You deserve not to be spoiled, and these extensions can help you.

Spoiler Protection 2.0

This extension can be installed on Chrome and Firefox (including Firefox on mobile phones) and allows you to add keywords that you want to block, wherever you are online.

Once installed, click on the extension to open a window allowing you to customize it. The page allows you to add specific keywords to block, as well as the action you would like to take when you come across this keyword. You can also disable the images and videos badociated with this keyword.

Spoiler Protection 2.0 is really aggressive for blocking things, so it's a good sign that it works. But when videos and photos are turned off, the impact on your spoiler's keyword is more important. YouTube still works, but most other photos and videos are stopped loading.

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• Free
• Available for Firefox, Chrome

As my colleague Thomas Ricker said while trying to avoid Star wars spoilers in 2015, Unspoiler is the "scalpel" method of blocking spoilers online. Against Spoiler Protection 2.0, which is no longer a blunt tool to remove any trace of a spoiler, it is a lighter and more accurate solution.

Once you have activated Unspoiler in your browser, enter the keywords you would like to remain happily unaware. This extension allows you to censor titles and block certain images related to your keywords. There is a good chance that you stay without spoiler, even if it does not block everything. A search on Google, for example, has revealed several images and the synopses of websites are not hidden.

How to block spoilers on your phone

There are actually countless ways to block spoilers on your browser, but if you are looking for a mobile solution, your options are more limited. In addition to the aforementioned Spoiler Protection 2.0 add-on, the only other satisfying product that I have found is an Android application called Spoilers Blocker, which acts as Spoiler Protection 2.0 by applying a solid color block on each element of page mentioning your spoiler keyword. . It's a little radical, but it's cool to be able to use all the applications you have installed on your phone.

The spoilers do not bother everyone, but if you're like me, you'd rather stay in the dark until you can enjoy a new movie, a TV show or a TV show. A game with a new look. These extensions are not a perfect solution, but they are certainly useful for keeping spoilers out of sight until you are caught.

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