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| // // https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data/twitter_interests | |
| // Lots of discussion and improvement of the original script in the comments | |
| // Here's the best version that works well | |
| // Because Twitter stops the script working after unchecking 50 interests, so you will almost certainly have to run the script multiple times | |
| function sleep(milliseconds) { | |
| return new Promise(function (resolve) { | |
| return setTimeout(resolve, milliseconds); | |
| }); | |
| }; | |
| Array.from(document | |
| .querySelectorAll('input[type="checkbox"]')) | |
| .filter(checkbox => checkbox.checked == true) | |
| .slice(0, 50) | |
| .forEach((checkbox, index, array) => | |
| sleep(1000).then(() => { | |
| console.log(`${index + 1}/${array.length}: Unchecking "${checkbox.parentNode.parentNode.innerText}"`) | |
| checkbox.click(); | |
| })); | |
It'll pull this nonsense after one uncheck. They really don't like users disabling these things.
Yeah, just manually did ~90 of them and twitter took a solid 15 minutes with the page open and un-refreshed to clear them all.
To be fair they use it for forced tailored ads. But, that's specifically why I'd want them gone.
That said, wish I'd found this script sooner
I am not so internet savvy that I understand what any of you are saying - but I am greatly consoled to see this effort of investigating what/why twitter is doing what they are doing. I am one of those people who went through the long list and unchecked each box, and then a day later wondered why I was still being recommended topics on my home timeline. More than 2/3 of the boxes were re-checked, and any effort to continue unchecking boxes prompts me with this error message at the bottom of my screen:
"Twitter is at capacity. Please wait a few moments and try again." Even if I've only unchecked one box, about 10 seconds later I'm shown this.
I'm offended at how blatantly twitter disregards their users wishes for an untampered experience. To me, it's appalling. I'm going to keep watch of this thread to hopefully see that one of you have come up with a bypass to this awful data trap design. Thanks in advance to you guys.
Can you imagine someone manually unchecking hundreds of checkboxes and finding most are still checked next time they load the page?
Yeah… imagine my anger…
… so, how do I run this? Copy/paste the entire script into the developer console? (This is with Firefox)
Update: apparently, yes. Though periodically a popup about a script making the site slow appears… sigh but better than nothing.
Update 2: wow, the long script from this gist actually worked! My “interests” are empty, as they should be!
Here’s to hoping I won’t be annoyed with “topics” every third tweet now.
Update 3: after three days, Twitter has registred me with no less than 196 new “interests”. I guess I have to run this script every day…
@ibrahimab Uncaught TypeError: document.querySelectorAll(...).filter is not a function for your short scriptlet.
@mirabilos. It was missing Array.from() around the document.querySelectorAll(...)
I've updated the gist with @ibrahimab's cleaner version with the Array.from() fix as well as a sleep function that might help some people with timeouts and some nicer logging
You can avoid the API lockout by making sure the wait is actually between each unchecking, and extending the timeout as well. With the below I could do 100 in one go, maybe a longer delay would let you go longer (or possibly it's because I've been messing with this for a bit).
Change
sleep(1000).then(() => {
To
sleep(5000 * index).then(() => {
Yes, but if you aren't doing this multiplication then every execution starts at the same time, just offset by 1000 from when the script is executed. Only with the multiplication is it delaying the same amount between each click, to simulate clicking them manually.
Rewrote it to divide the checkboxes into chunks to run the script in batches to prevent hitting twitter's API rate limits.
let chunks = [];
let source = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('input[type="checkbox"]:checked'));
while (source.length) {
chunks.push(source.splice(0, 20));
}
const event = new MouseEvent('click', {
view: window,
bubbles: true,
cancelable: true
});
let minutes = 10; // amount of time to wait between batches
let interval = setInterval(() => {
if (chunks.length === 0) {
clearInterval(interval);
return;
}
chunks.splice(0, 1)[0].forEach(i => {
i.dispatchEvent(event);
});
}, minutes * 60 * 1000);
People should realize that twitter does not remove the interests, and will continue to add/enable interests whilst using twitter.
Almost funny how this excellent gist is not the first result in Google, but it is the first result in Brave Search for "twitter clear interests"
Unfortunately, this did not work in Chrome or Edge.