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Life & fun · September 23, 2015

Shut Up: Comment Blocker

Hides comments on many popular websites.

Shut Up: Comment Blocker launched on September 23, 2015 with 78 votes, #614 of 3,463 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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What it does

Shut Up hides comments by default on most websites, and you can show comments with the click of a button. This may help you avoid being drawn into protracted arguments, or being exposed to statements that instill anger or sadness.

Comments are awful. Shut Up hides them by default, sparing your sanity and preventing you from getting sucked into a world of hurt. For the sites where discussions can be more constructive – like GitHub , Dropbox , or Stack Overflow – you can show comments by default. Shut Up is an app you can install on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, and a browser extension you can install in Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Opera. At its core is a stylesheet by Steven Frank called shutup.css . The extension injects the stylesheet's rules into almost all of the pages you visit. Rarely, you might find that Shut Up inadvertently blocks legitimate page content, or doesn't block comments properly. Please contact me if you…from rickyromero.com

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