Ever want to catch up on Game of Thrones after it’s aired, but find that as soon as you hit the web you’re bombarded with spoilers? If you’re tired of stumbling onto spoilers for Thrones and your other favorite shows, then Google Chrome has a solution for you: a new extension called Spoiler Alert can scan online content and help block what you don’t want to see.
Spoiler Alert is free and available in the Google Chrome Store. To access it, you’ll have to create an account using your email address, a password, and date of birth. Once it’s installed, click on the new toolbar icon to get started. Spoiler Alert provides blockers for five categories: sports, TV shows, events, movies, and people. So you’ll be able to also avoid award show results, sports scores, and even Kim Kardashian.
With an easy-to-toggle on-off switch, it’s simple to start or stop a spoiler alert. You can also change the settings to specify alert end dates, to block your blabber-mouthed friends on social media, and whether you want Spoiler Alert to resort to a full page block.
According to CNET‘s review, one issue is that Spoiler Alert won’t work beyond the initial page-load. For example, if you scroll down far enough on Facebook and more content is loaded, then Spoiler Alert can’t block it. Another potential issue is that in some cases, Spoiler Alert will block an entire site, but for others may only block a headline while still showing pictures. Obviously, a picture can still give away a lot (e.g. Jon Snow dead on the ground).
Spoiler Alert is still in beta so for now you can only block TV shows and movies that are already in the software’s database. The software’s creators have confirmed that the ability to spoiler block additional shows should be coming soon. It may have some kinks to work out but for now Spoiler Alert is definitely better than nothing!
And if you live for spoilers, than kindly ignore everything said here.
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