Trump Chrome filter lets you block stories about you-know-who

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T rump filter on ChromeThose resolving to see less of Donald Trump in 2016 may have a new Google Chrome browser extension to install.

Dubbed "Trump Filter" by creator Rob Spectre, the open-source extension searches websites users visit and strips out any mentions of the Republican presidential candidate, claiming to scrub Trump "from all your web browsing without leaving the Internet."

POLITICO's page with all items tagged with "Donald Trump," for example, is blank with the extension installed.

On the Trump Filter website, Spectre wrote that he was not put up to creating the filter by either party, "the Obama Administration, my mother or any other possible sphere of influence."

"I am doing this out of a profound sense of annoyance and patriotic duty," wrote Spectre, whose site describes him as a Brooklyn-based "punk rock technolologist having a barrel of monkeys on the Internet."

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