Since Tumblr never runs out of new ‘improvements’ to inflict on us, here’s a broad-blast Greasemonkey script that nukes any post on your dashboard by a blog you aren’t following. To use: install the Greasemonkey Firefox extension or the Tampermonkey Chrome extension, open link, click “install.”
Created to fix the latest BS where unmarked, unlabeled sponsored posts kept getting pinned to people’s dashboards, with nothing to distinguish them from regular posts except that they were random crap from blogs you’d never heard of. On the bright side, it should also whack the vast majority of posts from your saved searches that keep cropping up like dashboard herpes no matter how many times Tumblr has ‘helpfully’ shown them to you already. It won’t kill ads that aren’t actually Tumblr posts, but that’s what XKit and ad-blockers are for, right?
Only applies to the dashboard, so it won’t mess up search results or blogs in sidebar view. Unlike the Adblock-filter fix, it won’t block legit posts if (…when) Tumblr changes where the sponsored posts appear on the page.
Ping me if you run into any issues with it. I wrote it in one hour in a fit of pique and Tumblr randomly stopped doing the thing while I was testing it, so it may behave unpredictably in situations beyond basic dash-browsing.
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