Did you ever wish you could filter your Tumblr activity feed on your iPad? Are you, for example, a chick with big, dumb tits and thousands of followers, who would like to be able to look at a blog activity report without wading through 1,001 Likes from uninteresting randoms, but have no idea how to do anything for yourself? Or are you, like me, simply lazy enough not to think of this a year ago? Congratulations!
- Go to the App Store and buy 1Blocker (pictured above) or any other content blocker that allows user-defined rules.
- Launch your content blocker, go to Hide Page Elements (or equivalent), and create a new rule like the one in the screenshot. Make sure the blocker is activated before you leave the app.
- Jump into Safari, sign in to Tumblr, and navigate to your activity feed. All the Likes will be filtered out, leaving only Follows, Replies, Reblogs, etc.
- To bring the Likes back temporarily, press and hold Safari’s refresh button, and select Reload Without Content Blockers. To bring them back permanently, disable the rule.
Personally, I now hate life slightly less.
(The Tom Haverford in me wants to launch an IT support line for girls who like being told to shut up and follow directions. Our motto? That’s right, bitch. I said to turn it off, and then turn… it… back… on.)