Tools to shield against the 'spoilers' in the network

Tools to shield against the 'spoilers' in the network

Internet and social networks offer tools so that a movie or series can not be gutted to the viewer
At this point it would be strange that you would not have crossed paths with someone who had not commented on the premiere of the last season of 'Game of Thrones'. It is possible that you even have a faithful follower in your office, class, a WhatsApp group or on Facebook who has stayed up late to watch the last chapter broadcast.


The problem comes when you count the hours to get home and plug the TV and that fidelity becomes an excessive desire to comment on what happened and end up revealing something essential.

They are the feared 'spoilers', the English word that has been popularized to refer to the fact that someone eviscerates a book, a series or a movie. Avoiding them is not always easy. In your work you can establish the law of silence under threat of monumental anger, but in networks it does not always work. The issue has reached such a dimension that even MIT has designed an algorithm, pulling artificial intelligence, capable of creating 'spoilers' on success series.

However, there are options and tools to avoid them. If you are the administrator of a page on Facebook, the social network allows you to create a series of filters from the 'Moderation' section, within the configuration menu.

If you are a normal user you will have to download an extension called 'FB Purity' . What basically allows is to create a list of words or phrases so that those publications or states where they are mentioned have no place in the wall of our account. The best, which is compatible with all browsers.

Twitter also has a powerful option to 'censor' that which speaks of your favorite series. Also accessing the configuration options, you can choose if silence affects only the people you follow on the platform or any user. You can determine a list of words - your work there is to choose well which ones - and set a time: 'forever'; '30 days ',' 7 days 'or '24 hours'.

Another very different thing is when it comes to avoiding what is published on websites. Your first tool is your common sense: do not browse through pages where they usually talk about these topics. In recent times has installed the 'deference' of placing a notice at the beginning of the articles in which it is going to reveal an important aspect.

If it does not seem enough, you have an extension for Google Chrome: 'Unspoiler' . It works exclusively in this browser and blocks all the content that has to do with the selection of words and concepts that we insert. In a similar way they act 'No YouTube Comments' and 'Comment Snob', for Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, respectively. They block the comments of the videos in which something essential for a story is gutted.

There are also different options for your mobile. The most effective is the 'app' Spoiler Shield . Thanks to its algorithms it tracks everything related to Twitter and Facebook so that it does not reach your notifications without finding out the result of the game you have recorded or any other detail.

In the mobile phone you can also avoid 'spoilers' thanks to the 'app' Spoiler Shield, available for iOS and Android, which has specific filters for Facebook and Twitter social networks and works using algorithms.

Finally, if you also want to take action on YouTube, there is the possibility to block comments using these two tools: No 'YouTube Comments', for Google Chrome, and 'Comment Snob' for the Mozilla browser.

Revenge

If you are the victim of a spoiler, your body is likely to ask for revenge. There are options on the internet to pay with the same currency. The platform in question is called 'Spoil your enemies' and is a service that works with text messages. The page sends to the mobile phone of the person that we want an SMS with details of the new chapter. And all in a completely anonymous way. The service has predefined messages for several series. Just choose one, enter up to six phone numbers from any country and pay two dollars.

The creator of this tool, which has put it back on track after the premiere of 'Game of Thrones', states that the idea of ​​creating it was none other than to respond to his friends who had the ugly habit of gutting series and movies. For the moment, the offer includes, in addition to the series of 'Game of Thrones', 'Flash', 'Arrow', 'The Walking Dead' or 'Homeland', but is open to suggestions. In addition, it has a chat with which also offers the possibility of personalizing the message.