FilterOut - LinkedIn Content Filter

About

FilterOut - LinkedIn Content Filter helps you focus on what matters by intelligently filtering unwanted content from your LinkedIn feed. With a clean, minimal interface and advanced phrase matching, take control of your professional networking experience.

Key Features:

🎯 Precise Phrase Filtering
- Add single words or complete phrases (e.g., "legal tech" matches only that exact phrase, not "legal" or "tech" separately)
- Case-sensitive or case-insensitive matching options
- Word boundary detection prevents partial matches

⚡ Smart Auto-Filtering
- Built-in filtering for Promoted and Sponsored content
- Detects promotional posts automatically
- Toggle filters on/off instantly with one click

👁️ Reveal & Hide Controls
- Elegant "Post filtered for quality" indicators
- Click to reveal filtered posts without disabling filters
- Click to hide again for clean feed viewing
- Visual connectors show relationship between controls and content

🔒 Privacy First
- 100% local processing - no data leaves your browser
- No external servers or data collection
- No tracking, analytics, or user monitoring

⚙️ Professional Design
- Minimal interface that integrates seamlessly with LinkedIn
- Fast, lightweight, and efficient
- Preserves LinkedIn's original layout and functionality
- Smooth filtering without page disruption

Perfect For:
✓ Professionals wanting to reduce feed noise and distractions
✓ Users avoiding specific topics, buzzwords, or clichés
✓ Job seekers filtering irrelevant content
✓ Anyone wanting a more focused LinkedIn experience

How to Use:
- Install the extension and visit LinkedIn
- Click the extension icon to open controls
- Add keywords or phrases you want to filter (e.g., "excited to announce", "crypto", "NFT")
- Enable/disable quick filters for Promoted and Suggested posts
- Toggle filtering on/off anytime with the main switch
- Reveal any filtered post temporarily by clicking "Click to reveal"

Technical Highlights:
- Advanced regex matching with word boundary detection
- Phrase-aware filtering - distinguishes between "AI" and words containing "ai"
- Dynamic content detection - filters posts as you scroll
- Mutation observer - catches dynamically loaded content
- Optimised performance - minimal resource usage

Recent Improvements (v1.1.3):
✨ Enhanced phrase matching for exact multi-word filtering
✨ Improved layout preservation and display handling
✨ Better timing for content detection and filtering
✨ Full-width input field for easier phrase entry
✨ Cleaner, more intuitive user interface

Note: This extension requires permission to read and modify content on linkedin.com for filtering purposes. All processing happens locally in your browser.