LinkedIn Ad-blocker

README.md

On LinkedIn, some of the posts in your "Feed" are ads. They carry a little indicator (by law) to tell you as much. This script looks for those indicators and hides it for you. It works by installing an event listener for when you scroll, and looks for newly promoted posts to hide.

Usage

Copy/paste the above script into your Console when visiting LinkedIn. You can use an extension to run the above script whenever visiting LinkedIn, such as "Custom JavaScript for Websites 2"

Changes

2023.10.31

Updated to handle "Promoted by ..." junk

script.js

/**
 * Hide ads on LinkedIn
 * 
 * This finds any mention of "Promoted" and hides the parent card
 * whenever the user scrolls. Effectively hiding every possible ad.
 *
 */

// Avoid triggering too frequently
// Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/scroll_event
let ticking = false;

function hidePromoted() {
  var spans = document.querySelectorAll('span[aria-hidden="true"]');
  
  for (var i=0; i<spans.length; i++) {
    var span = spans[i];
    if (span.textContent.startsWith("Promoted")) {
      
      // The post itself exists 10 levels above this "Promoted" indicator
      for (var j=0; j < 10; j++) span = span.parentElement;

      console.log("Hiding garbage Promoted material");
      span.remove()
    }
  }
}

document.addEventListener("scroll", (event) => {
  if (!ticking) {
    window.requestAnimationFrame(() => {
      hidePromoted();
      ticking = false;
    });

    ticking = true;
  }
});