Remove Reddit's promoted posts and other noise

Get rid of Reddit's "promoted" posts and other noise

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Userscripts to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install a user script manager extension to install this script.

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// ==UserScript==
// @name         Remove Reddit's promoted posts and other noise
// @namespace    https://lyler.xyz
// @version      0.4
// @description  Get rid of Reddit's "promoted" posts and other noise
// @author       Lyle Hanson
// @match        https://www.reddit.com/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    function kill_ads() {
        let spans = Array.filter(document.getElementsByTagName("span"), (span) => span.textContent == "promoted")
        spans.forEach((span) => span.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.style = "display: none")
    }

    kill_ads()
    // Hide the chat button
    document.getElementById("HeaderUserActions--Chat").remove();
    // Also rerun the code each time document change (i.e new posts are added when user scroll down)
    document.addEventListener("DOMNodeInserted", kill_ads)
})();