automatically click "hide" on ads in hackernews

no-ads-hn.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name          No ads on HN
// @version       0.0.1
// @author        Chad Lavimoniere
// @grant         none
// @include       https://news.ycombinator.com/*
// @downloadURL   https://gist.github.com/chadlavi/888a0889dadf82a60ba0f32017a5e9cb/raw/no-ads-hn.user.js
// @updateURL     https://gist.github.com/chadlavi/888a0889dadf82a60ba0f32017a5e9cb/raw/no-ads-hn.user.js
// ==/UserScript==

document.querySelectorAll('td.subtext').forEach(cell => {
	const text = cell.innerText
	// ads don't have points listed in their subtext lines, so any subtext
	// line that doesn't contain the string "point" is proably an ad
	if (!text.match(/point/)){
		const links = cell.querySelectorAll('a')
		links.forEach(link => {
			if (link.innerText === 'hide') {
				console.log('clicking "hide" link')
				link.click()
			}
		})
	}
})