I love how the apparent solution to Tumblr being "too confusing" is to just make it look as much like Twitter as possible. Are Twitter users truly so stupid that you have to completely wash away Tumblr's UI identity so they can figure out how to use the damn site? Maybe I'm too hopeful, but I sincerely think Twitter users could figure it out??? There are certainly things that could be streamlined and change is inevitable etc but did they have to make a change that so radically changes the CORE tumblr experience??? good lord
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XKit on mobile and ad free tumblr experience
So with Google making adblocking basically impossible soon and Youtube also being a pita with the adblocking on Chrome and also me seeing so much griping around the tumblr app, I wanted to show everyone how to get an XKit enhanced, ad-free experience on mobile.
This works as of December 2023.
Please note that this tutorial is for Android, as I don't use iOS, I'm not sure how it would work there. Although I'm sure some trial and error will help.
This will only work with Firefox Nightly or Firefox Beta. I'm personally using Firefox Nightly, but it really doesn't matter that much.
Go to "Settings" and scroll down to "About Firefox Nightly". Tap on the logo 5 times in order to enable debug mode. A popup will tell you that debug mode is enabled.
When you go back to "Settings", a new item will have appeared, "Custom Add-Ons Collection". You want to open that. Then you type in 18195107 for the collection and name is "tumblr" or something similar.
Note: This is my collection. You can make your own collection very easily! I've just done this for my own convenience regarding wanting to have all the add ons I'm usually using in one place for mobile. Go wild with whatever you want to add here.
This collection contains:
µBlock Origin
XKit Rewritten
Tampermonkey
The app will be restarted automatically.
Now you can go to the add ons section of Firefox and enable the apps that you want.
Done!
Under the cut I'm showing what I filter for µBlock Origin, how to export XKit Settings from desktop to mobile. I'll talk about Tampermonkey in another post.
XKit Settings export
If you don't want to enable all your XKit stuff again on mobile, it's very easy to export from desktop. Go to your XKit Settings, then Backup and either download it or copy it all and paste it into a draft email or whatever:
Then pick the Import function on your mobile browser and paste it there. Done! So easy! No more ads, quick reblog enabled, and all your other settings there!
µBlock Origin Filters
For mobile, I don't usually use the dashboard unfucker, because the new tumblr layout doesn't annoy me that much....except for tumblr Mart etc. (tumblr Live gets taken care of by XKit, thankfully) So to get rid of those go to your µBlock Origin Dashboard -> My Filters
Enter:
! 2023-12-14 tumblr.com - Navigation
! Hide "Explore" menu item
tumblr.com##li:matches-attr("title"="Explore")
! Hide Live menu item
tumblr.com##li:matches-attr("title"="Live")
! Hide TumblrMart menu item
tumblr.com##li:matches-attr("title"="TumblrMart")
! Hide "Get a domain" menu item
tumblr.com##li:matches-attr("title"="Get a domain")
! Hide "Go Ad-Free" menu item
tumblr.com##li:matches-attr("title"="Go Ad-Free")
If you want to hide blocked posts (XKit does this as well, so it's unnecessary, but just in case):
!hide blocked posts
tumblr.com##article:has(.W0ros)
I mostly use the built in filter lists:
As well as the Bypass Paywall Filters list (you import this at the bottom of this tab): https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters
And yeah, that's it! Much better experience than the mobile app. I only use that to track notifications, really, but for browsing I use the browser only. This is partially to avoid triggers, because this way I don't even have to see the ominous "This post was filtered because it contains X trigger, we just re-traumatized you, you're welcome!" message tumblr is so fond of when filtering posts.
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interest tracker
this is a super casual, super easy interest tracker. i kinda pop in here and there all throughout the day, sometimes on my phone, sometimes from the work laptop, sometimes from home, and because of that, i see a lot of activity but i have the worst time keeping track of who's mutuals and who isn't and who might be waiting for me to break down that awkward door to start something and who wishes i'd just shut up.
so consider this a no-pressure, super casual interest check. give this post a like if you:
want me to send memes
want me to send unprompted ic asks
want character questions/headcanon prompts
want me to like/comment on posts
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