While some "Star Wars" fans are tepidly venturing onto the online world for the next few days, others are swearing off the internet completely - at least until they are able to watch "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" for themselves. While most sites are gracious enough to include spoiler warnings for fans who do not want to know anything about the movie, others are not so understanding, or perhaps just too excited not to share major plot details about the seventh "Star Wars" installment.
Can't live without the internet? Fear not - you don't have to isolate yourself to Dagobah just to avoid Star Wars spoilers. Various browser extensions and other handy tools are available so that you can stay online and spoiler-free for the coming days as the countdown to Star Wars comes to a close.
Chrome Extensions
As previously reported, a free Google Chrome extension created by Alex Jumašev and Max Al Farakh blocks potential Star Wars spoilers by concealing the screen with a message asking users if they want to proceed with browsing to the site.
Another nifty Chrome Extension is Unspoiler, which covers Star Wars content with a red box on all sites - including Facebook and Twitter - which can then be uncovered or saved to the Unspoiler website for later viewing. Unspoiler does not just work for Star Wars either. Users can configure the extension, customizing which spoilers they want to be protected from.
Although Facebook still doesn't have a Newsfeed filter feature to keep unwanted posts from appearing, another Chrome Extension has been doing that job for years. FB Purity allows users to put in a keyword or string of terms that will be barred from appearing in their feeds. The extension apparently got some heat for allowing people to filter out any news relating to Donald Trump. Of course, it can be used just as well to filter out any Star Wars-related spoilers and content.
The downside is this app will only work on browsers so Facebook mobile app users must still tread onto the social media site carefully.
Already, excited fans who have seen screenings of "The Force Awakens" cannot contain their excitement and are flooding Twitter with "Star Wars" news and, yes, dreaded spoilers. Now there's an app to shield you from those. Both TweetDeck and TweetBot 4 allow users to block content from their Twitter feed based on their inputted terms such as #TheForceAwakens #StarWars or even #WheresLuke
While the aforementioned apps and extensions still won't protect you from Spoiler Trolls of the "SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE" variety, they are guaranteed to keep your online life sans "Force Awakens" spoilers until you finally get to watch the movie.
