/shutup

A style sheet to gently remove comments from your favorite sites by Steven Frank.

Shutup

shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet that can be applied to your browser to hide comments on many popular web sites without user intervention.

Installation

  1. Download the auto-updating shutup.css file to your system.

    If you don't trust a remotely-imported CSS file, or want to make customizations, you can download the source directly instead.

  2. In your browser's preferences, configure your browser to use shutup.css as a custom user stylesheet. In Safari for Mac OS X, it looks like this:

    Safari Preferences

  3. Enjoy a less comment-y web.

  4. If you make changes, or download a new version of shutup.css, quit and restart your browser to make sure it takes effect.

A list of known-to-be-affected sites is contained within the stylesheet itself.

Warning: The stylesheet blindly hides blocks with IDs like "comments", which could have unexpected side effects. (I'm told it hides the "discussion" section of Bugzilla installations, for example.) Disable shutup.css if you think you might be missing important page content.

Firefox users may wish to try the Stylish plug-in. Charles Stuart provided a Chrome extension.

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

  • Fork the project.
  • Make your feature addition or bug fix.
  • Commit.
  • Send us a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Credit

This was entirely Steven Frank's idea. We are just maintaining the repository.