Removes inferred interests from Twitter https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data/twitter_interests

remove_twitter_interests.js

// // 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();
        }));

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(() => {

Alex Marshall dixit:

sleep(5000 * index).then(() => {

index can get into the multiple hundreds though… bye, //mirabilos -- Gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert. Ich hatte nicht damit gerechnet, darum bin ich blutverschmiert… wer konnte ahnen, daß SIE so reagier’n… gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert~~~ (as of 2021-06-15 The MirOS Project temporarily reconvenes on OFTC)

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.

Alex Marshall dixit:

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.

Ah, indeed, so they aren’t cumulative. I had good-ish success with running the script a few times with an hour pause or so in between, in the meantime… the crap site insists on piling on more and more abstruse “interests” though. bye, //mirabilos -- Gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert. Ich hatte nicht damit gerechnet, darum bin ich blutverschmiert… wer konnte ahnen, daß SIE so reagier’n… gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert~~~ (as of 2021-06-15 The MirOS Project temporarily reconvenes on OFTC)

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"