A popular Github contributor known as mcclure engineered a browser plugin that autoblocks Twitter accounts using NFT profile pictures.
That was fast. at intervals 24 hours of the launch of the Twitter nonfungible token, or NFT, profile footage for iOS update, a github contributor known as mcclure has coded up and shared a browser extension that automatically blocks Twitter accounts victimization an NFT profile image.
The program known as NFTBlocker blocks paying subscribers of the Twitter Blue for iOS service who prefer to show an NFT as their profile image.
The extension works with Chrome and Firefox on desktop and whereas an early prototype, “future versions of this plugin can scan your notifications and do the interference automatically.”
But why would somebody code up such an extension? in step with mcclure’s README, it’s as a result of NFTs are an “investment scam.”
They don’t mince their words:
“In short, NFT users are just irritating to be around. People who bought NFTs have to keep hyping other people to buy NFTs or the NFTs they bought will lose value. Twitter NFT cliques are rife with sockpuppet accounts, dogpiling and indifferentiable monkey clones. Blocking NFT users just makes Twitter nicer.”
The web developer additionally recommends victimisation the app higher TweetDek to block NFT profile picture users.
( Joseph HAll, Cointelegraph, 2022)