Level 10+ can now block domains. | Poal: Say what you want.

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• 5mo (edited 5mo)

EDIT: there's a little bug on the production server. Working on it! FIXED

To block a domain simply click the one you want to block next to a linkpost's title and a red "Block" button will show up on the top of the domain page.

Posts from blocked domains will still show up when linked in content or comments, they just won't appear in your /home and /all/ front page anymore.

There's no limit on how many domains you can block, but you can only block domains that have been shared as a linkpost on Poal.

There's obviously no manual way to enter a domain name that has never been shared before.

To unblock a domain, go to your user profile and click "View blocked domains" in the sidebar.

Thanks @Ivanfor the suggestions

### EDIT: ~~there's a little bug on the production server. Working on it!~~ FIXED ---- To block a domain simply click the one you want to block next to a linkpost's title and a red "Block" button will show up on the top of the domain page. Posts from blocked domains will still show up when linked in content or comments, they just won't appear in your /home and /all/ front page anymore. There's no limit on how many domains you can block, but you can only block domains that have been shared as a linkpost on Poal. There's obviously no manual way to enter a domain name that has never been shared before. To unblock a domain, go to your user profile and click "View blocked domains" in the sidebar. Thanks @Ivan for the [suggestions](https://poal.co/s/IdeasForPoal/732843)

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5mo

(edited 5mo)

Sweet. I’m blocking Poal.co. I don’t want to see what any of those weirdos have to say.

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5mo

No don't! You're gonna create a black ho

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5mo

A black ho? As in Beyoncé or Stacey Abr

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5mo

Nice feature to have! Thanks AOU!

Level 10+ can now block domains

Everyone always said collecting fake internet points wasn't worth anything. They were wrong. Truth hurts.

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5mo

Sweet, brb I gotta find a gateway pundit post.

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5mo

So is this good for not wanting to be tracked with site cookies from shitty websites that are linked on here? Im not technical enough to know what this will do for me.

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5mo

Poal removes the referrers for external links, which means websites can't track you because they don't know where the clicks originated from. They only have the IP (you are using, ISP or VPN) and some of your browser informations.

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5mo

Ah ok. That's cool. Thanks for explaining it to me.

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5mo

Thank you! This adds another, more fine-tuned parameter in addition to users and subs. Eager to use it to get more of the content I'd like while not "throwing the baby out with the bathwater"!

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5mo

Pretty cool!

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(edited 5mo)

SWEET!

Edit: seems to work including unblocking domains.

Here's my list for now: https://pic8.co/sh/gdlBVa.jpg

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5mo

Fixing a stupid bug at the moment.

Feature will come back soon.

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5mo

Yep, just noticed the blocked domains are gone.

I don't know if this is a bug or if I was testing during a deploy, but when I blocked babylonbee.com, and then unblocked it, the option to block it wasn't there. That was probably just the fix in progress though.