A Chrome extension that removes Pokemon from the Internet.
All of a sudden, a new mobile app called Pokemon Go got extremely popular (read about it on the Wall Street Journal!). Because of this, the internet is full of people talking about all things Pokemon - which can be a little annoying.
PokeGone removes Pokemon Go references from the internet so you can get to normal watching funny cat GIFs.
- Detects instances of Pokemon GO on web pages.
- Attempts to identify semantically sections of the page likely to contain Pokemon Go reference and removes them from the page.
- Sensitivity settings to customize the aggressiveness of the filter - remove single references, chunks or the entire page.
After I posted about the extension on Product Hunt things got a little crazy. From getting asked to go on radio which I declined!) in Canada and America, being in some printed newspapers, to even ABC News doing a small piece on the extension. Oh, and random messages from Pokemon fans going mad at me. Here are just some of the media attention it got:
To see the hundreds (or maybe even thousands) of other articles post about it, see the Google search for Pokegone.
Just install the extension from the Chrome Web Store!
Then surf the web as normal without worrying about bumping in to adults going mad about Pokemon.
Firstly, special thanks to Rob Spectre who made the Trump Filter! Open Source (which this extension is completely based off).
Want to hack on PokeGone? Sweet!
Here's a how to to get the source of the Chrome Extension running in your environment.
- Grab latest source
git clone https://github.com/JamieFarrelly/PokeGone
- Enable Chrome Extension in your Chrome install
Open Chrome. Navigate to Settings... Tools... Extensions. Click + on "Developer mode" Click "Load unpacked extensions..." Navigate to directory you installed PokeGone and click Open. Chuckle to self as you reload this page and significant chunks of it suddenly disappear.
- Make the world a safer place.
- Special thanks to Rob Spectre since he done all of the hard work, I just hit find & replace.
- This work is licensed under GPLv3.