Google Chrome Extension Silencer Helps Facebook, Twitter Users Avoid Spoilers

Google Chrome users: Do you have Facebook friends that ignore your pleas to not reveal spoilers about your favorite television shows? Silencer may be worth investigating.

Google Chrome users: Do you have Facebook friends that ignore your pleas to not reveal spoilers about your favorite television shows? Silencer may be worth investigating.

Silencer is a browser plugin that enables users to add terms, phrases, names, or hashtags that they don’t want to read about, and it will hide content that fits those criteria from users’ Facebook News Feeds and Twitter streams.

The description of Silencer on the Chrome Web Store reads:

Silencer lets you mute and filter any content you want out of your Twitter stream or Facebook News Feed.

Avoid TV show or sports spoilers.

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