Want a Kardashian-Free Internet? You Can Have That Now

[joeybee12]

Log onto the Internet and fire up all your favorite social media outlets, and, if it's an average day on the web, you're bound to be bombarded with Kardashians. But what if didn't have to be that way? What if you could log into Facebook, click through your favorite site's articles, check who your ex-boyfriend is dating, and see who from high school didn't age well... and do it all without hearing about Kim's latest antics or Kylie's lips? It sounds crazy, right? Dreams are simply dreams.

However, some people's dreams can become reality. According to The Daily Beast, a 21-year-old British fellow named James Shamsi is seeking to change that. He's developed an extension called #KardBlock, which does exactly what its name claims it does: it blocks the Kardashians from your Internet browser. As he puts it on the website for the service, it's like "an AdBlock version for the Kardashians."

According to #KardBlock's website's mission statement, the service wants people to no longer be saddled with fluffy Kardashian news (save for Bruce Jenner's groundbreaking news about his gender identity, which can't be called fluffy at all). It would rather —per #KardBlock's website — show real news and raise awareness about real issues, such as the recent earthquake in Nepal.

As Shamsi put it to The Daily Beast, "The concept here is to replace Kardashian links with ones to charitable causes of all kind ... But our ultimate goal is even bigger than just that. We are looking to disrupt the entire digital advertising space. We want to replace all advertising with donation links and important news widgets."

https://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/kardashian-blocker-163540179.html

[guillaumeb]

1. all well and good,

but what do the Kardashian's think about Nepal?

[Exilednight]

2. Someone has been watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

[guillaumeb]

5. have never heard of John Oliver

do you have a link?

[Exilednight]

7. Here you go

https://m.

[guillaumeb]

9. I know about the Armenian genocide because of the kardashians!

amazing. I could not play your link but you tube has it.

Thanks. Oliver is quite good here. I will follow him.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. John Oliver was a regular on The Daily Show.

Then hosted the Daily Show for a few weeks while Jon was directing the movie Rosewater.

He proved so popular that he got his own show, which is a huge hit..
On Sunday nights, late.
Brilliant stuff.
you can catch his show also on YouTube.

[TexasTowelie]

3. So I guess that further reports about Bruce Jenner's transformation

will still be considered hard news?

[seveneyes]

4. Holy river of shit that just flowed Kard* effluent into this domain

Waiting for the decay ...

[Warpy]

6. When their looks go, so will they

After all, there is no discernible talent to sustain them into second careers playing Vegas.

[LiberalElite]

11. Their looks (such as they are) won't go -

they'll just keep getting "augmented."

[Terra Alta]

8. Cool idea.

Can he develop a similar program to block the Duggars? They're all over my FB news feed.

[BrotherIvan]

12. eew

[onehandle]

10. Famous because of a sex tape. No talent or value whatsoever. nt

[Kelvin Mace]

13. Are the Cardassians still causing trouble?

[Kalidurga]

15. Only for the Dominion

and possibly Klingons.

[Aerows]

14. Adblock taboola and outbrain

and you block 90% of the annoying things you didn't want to read about anyway!

[steve2470]

16. a drastic solution but it works: blocking by keyword in your router