control-panel-for-twitter

They stopped emailing me eventually when I started responding with silly replies, these are some of the emails I got about Control Panel for Twitter (~220,000 users on Chrome): https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-twitter/issues/38... Some of them work in the open, I've had emails from the people behind this scam: https://palant.info/2024/10/01/lies-damned-lies-and-impact-h...

For mobile, “Control Panel for Twitter” has a paid safari extension for iOS or a free user script version for any browser that supports a user script manager. Unfortunately solutions like these only work on the web app, rather than the native app. https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-twitter

For extensions which primarily add functionality to a target site, you can usually run the exact same extension code in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. The latter two have API differences from Chrome - e.g. using the `browser` namespace for extension APIs instead of `chrome`, and Promises instead of callbacks for async functionality - but for the sake of compatibility they also implement Chrome's version of these APIs [1][2], so if you just use the Chrome APIs and don't venture into the more browser-internal APIs such as bookmarks, the same extension code will likely run everywhere, with some specific differences/incompatibilities noted in the docs below. If you were to create a new cross-browser extension today, one of the main issues would be that Chrome Web Store no longer accepts new MV2 extensions so you have to use MV3 for it, but MV3 i

In terms of a browser extension for Twitter, I highly recommend Control Panel for Twitter. It works as a browser extension as well as on some mobile browsers. It is highly customizable to filter out who/what you don't want to see and is fully open source if you feel the need to tweak. It's updated regularly and the creator is highly active on Twitter to provide updates and answer questions - @ControlPanelFT If you decide to use it, drop the guy a donation, they work hard on it! https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-twitter

Control Panel for Twitter can already put them back [1] ^1 ^2 [1] https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-twitter/releases/... ^1 while Twitter continues to put the headline in the aria-label on the link, given there's no accessibility team left to protect it ^2 unless you're using Firefox, as Firefox Add-ons now takes ~4 days to review new versions

While I realize this does nothing for mobile (RIP third-party clients), Control Panel for Twitter [1] has been nice for me to use as a browserscript. Defaults/hides "For You" and tweaks a bunch of other stuff (hideable trends, etc). [1]: https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-twitter

The Userscripts extension [0] and the user script version of Tweak New Twitter [1] (standard "I made this" disclaimer here) are both open-source, used on top of the web version that'll give you a forced non-algorithmic timeline (and more) [0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/userscripts/id1463298887 [1] https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter

I love the section on "Earning the pixels", as this is something I also put a lot of time into in extensions, from the target site itself to the options page in my extensions having per-browser CSS to make sure it fits in with the browser's own options UI (and in light and dark mode). With Twitter, earning the pixels in the site UI is even more fraught as it's a React Native for Web app, so you really don't want to touch the app's own DOM directly, as it will most likely get wiped out on the next render. e.g. The latest version of Tweak New Twitter [0] keeps you on the "Following" timeline, gets rids of the new "For you" tab and adds a new "Retweets" tab - to highlight the Retweets tab as active when the user clicks it, I had to add a styling hook class to <body> and use that to manually style the Retweet tab as active and override styles

https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter/ adds a lot of these UX tweaks.

Brecht contributed this feature to Tweak New Twitter [1] if you want to turn your timeline off and have to intentionally turn it on again, so you can't casually browse it - it's in the Experiments section at the bottom of the extension's options. (At the time of writing I'm still waiting for addons.mozilla.org to approve a new version which fixes issues caused by a markup change Twitter made yesterday, so in the Firefox version you can't currently see the separate timeline Tweak New Twitter moves Retweets into by default) [1] https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter

https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter/ If you need it for mobile, on my mobile (Android) I downloaded Kiwi Browser so I can install that plugin.

Tweak New Twitter [0] can automatically keep you on Latest Tweets and hide the new timeline tabs, even if Latest Tweets is "unpinned" [1] (as long as the implementation hasn't changed significantly since the last A/B test they did of timeline tabs on web) [0] https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter [1] https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter/issues/78