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thanks so much for this. desktop solution coming as fast as we can build it!



I work in AR, and am inspired to think how an app like Clearspace could help make AR something that enhances our mental wellness instead of degrades it. I feel like the stereotypical expectation is that AR will result in our views being cluttered by advertisements and digital content at all times. But I wonder, could "Clearspace AR" filter out the billboard over 101 I can see from my apartment? Could it help protect me from distracting, negative, plainly unhealthy ad and outrage-driven media content around me every day?

What I'm really hoping is, one day you can filter People Magazine out of the grocery store checkout line ;)


Would you mind open sourcing the browser extensions?

Something about installing closed source browser extensions with broad permissions like "Read and change your data on many / all websites" has always bothered me.

Too many have been bought up and then later injected with malware / ads / etc but that's totally opaque to the end user...


And there appear to be some bugs in the Chrome extension...

I just installed it and tested the 5 toggles for a few minutes, and found most of them only seem to work on the homepage of the site? Is that expected?

I mostly use these sites not by going to the homepage first, so I think blocking only one door into a house is an invalid assumption for blocking the site.

Also Facebook blocking doesn't seem to be working at all.


I would also like to, e.g., add more sites, say HN, beyond the currently supported list [^1].

[^1]: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit




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