October 11, 2019 03:50 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/IAXBaWEjJsc/stop-maxing-my-engagement.html
A plugin to force Twitter to respect your settings and stop showing you "top" tweets
Twitter has a setting that (nominally) allows you to turn off its default of showing you "top" tweets (as selected by its engagement-maximizing, conflict-seeking algorithm), but periodically, Twitter just ignores that setting and starts nonconsensually eyeball-fucking you with inflammatory headlines.
Kent Brewster has created a free/open plugin for Chrome and Firefox that undoes this reversion and shows you the Twitter you've expressly asked for. Read the rest
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/IAXBaWEjJsc/stop-maxing-my-engagement.html
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