Protego for Reddit

Protego 3.11 lets you pause filtering and choose where each keyword hides posts. No account, no tracking, and your lists stay in your own iCloud. WHAT'S NEW: - Pause filtering for 5 minutes to 3 hours from the Safari popup or the Filter tab. It resumes on its own. - Keyword scope: choose where each keyword hides posts, like only on Home, Popular, and News, or in certain communities. IMPROVEMENTS: - Filter a post's website from the Protego menu, on new and old Reddit. - Reddit Answers also turns the words Reddit links in comments back into plain text. - Settings search scrolls to the setting you pick and highlights it. - In compact view, the Protego button sits right after Reddit's own buttons. FIXES: - A deleted keyword no longer keeps hiding posts in another Reddit window. - A post hidden in your feed shows again on its community page and its author's profile. - On a zoomed-in page, the Protego menu opens where you can see it. - Leaving Reveal Mode clears every red outline. - The Reddit Answers setting works again after Reddit changed its search. - Smaller wording fixes in Spanish and Portuguese.

Protego 3.10 turns any Reddit post or a comment thread into an image you can share. Sharing a comment used to mean a screenshot and a crop. Share as image now sits in the Protego menu on every post and comment, on new and old Reddit, and opens Protego with a card you can tune first. Add the comments above the one you chose, pick a theme and a width, show or hide the title and picture, and turn usernames off for a share that names no one. On a device that supports Apple Intelligence, adding a keyword can now suggest terms for you as well. No account, no tracking, and your lists stay in your own iCloud. WHAT'S NEW: - Share as image: the Protego menu on any post or comment opens Protego with a card of it, on new and old Reddit. Add the comments above it, pick a theme and a width, show or hide the title and picture, and turn usernames off for a share that names no one. - Keyword suggestions: not sure what to filter? Pick a topic, or type a word, and Protego suggests real terms to add. Needs a device that supports Apple Intelligence. Suggestions run on Apple's Private Cloud Compute, which stores nothing and never receives your filter lists. IMPROVEMENTS: - After an update with new features, a small card on Reddit pages says what changed and links to the details. Turn it off in Settings > What's New.

Protego 3.9 filters the one place it never reached: Reddit's search results. Until now a keyword, community or user filter that hid a post everywhere else left the same post in plain sight the moment you searched for it. Search results are filtered like any other feed now, on new and old Reddit, with matches hidden and counted in your stats. Reddit's "get the app" panel could also freeze a page outright, with no close button and no way to scroll, and Protego lifts that freeze even on a panel it has never seen. VoiceOver reads Protego's confirmation messages aloud, and adding a domain points you at the ready-made filter that covers the whole site. No account, no tracking, and your lists stay in your own iCloud. WHAT'S NEW: - Filtering on search results: your keyword, community and user filters now apply to Reddit's search pages, with matches hidden, counted in your stats, and announced by the same toast. Reveal Mode and Preview cover the surface too, so you can see what a filter would hide before you commit to it. A new-Reddit result carries no outbound link and no post body, so domain filters cannot apply there and keywords match the title and community name; old Reddit's results carry all four filter types. - A pointer to the filter that covers a whole site: several sites post links under more than one address, so a youtube.com filter on its own quietly misses everything arriving through youtu.be. Type a domain like that and Protego names the ready-made filter that covers both, in the add sheet and when you edit an entry. Your domain still saves normally. IMPROVEMENTS: - The "Open in App" nudges setting now also hides the app button inside Reddit's mature-content warning, where it sits above the two real choices. The warning itself still appears and still has to be answered. - Protego recognizes three more shapes of Reddit's app prompts, drawn from the public lists that ad-blockers maintain, so one we have not met in the wild is covered if it turns up. FIXES: - Reddit's "get the app" panel could cover a page with no close button and stop it scrolling, leaving force-quitting Safari as the only way out: Protego now recognizes the whole family of those panels, rather than the exact ones it had seen before. - Protego's confirmation messages were never read aloud by VoiceOver, so erasing your lists, importing one, or renaming a group gave no sign that anything had happened: every screen announces them now, confirmations and errors alike.

Protego 3.8 shows its work: what it is filtering right now, and what a keyword would catch before you save it. Filtering is invisible by design, which makes it hard to trust. Reveal Mode stops hiding and outlines every post Protego would have hidden, naming the filter that matched; Preview does the same for a keyword you are still typing, before you commit to it. Old Reddit gains something it has never had: a proper dark theme, checked for contrast across feeds, comments and communities. Comment pages can open with every reply chain folded away, and a new reset puts Protego back to how it started. No account, no tracking, and your lists stay in your own iCloud. WHAT'S NEW: - Reveal Mode: a button in the Safari extension popup shows what Protego is filtering instead of hiding it. Every post a filter would hide stays visible, outlined in red and tagged with the filter that matched. Nothing is saved and your stats are untouched. - Preview a keyword: try one on the page behind the popup before you save it. Every post it would hide is outlined with the matched word highlighted, so a wildcard's real reach is visible. Add it from there, or walk away and nothing is saved. - Dark theme for old Reddit: old Reddit has never had a dark mode of its own, and now it does, across feeds, comment pages, communities, the sidebar and search. Every color was checked for contrast, so text stays readable rather than merely dark. - Collapse reply threads: open a post's comments as a list of top-level comments with every reply chain folded away, then open only the chains you want to read. A link that points at one comment still opens on it, with nothing folded over. - Ignore community styles: render every community in old Reddit's default styling instead of the custom look its moderators set up, which often makes it harder to read on a phone. - Reset Protego: a new row at the bottom of Settings puts everything back to how it started. Reset your settings on their own, or reset them and erase every filter list at once. Your stats are never touched. IMPROVEMENTS: - Old Reddit's settings now sit on a screen of their own, at the end of the Transform tab, instead of mixed in with settings that shape both designs. Every setting keeps its name, behavior, and value. - Quick Help in the popup now opens the app on Get Help, rather than describing the route for you to follow. Get Help attaches your app version and device details, so what you send arrives ready to diagnose. - The two stats cards at the top of the popup now open the app on your Stats. - Erasing a filter list now removes that list's groups along with it, so an emptied list no longer leaves empty groups behind. FIXES: - A domain saved with a capital letter in it filtered nothing at all, while looking exactly like a working entry in your list: domains now ignore capitalization, and ones saved that way in the past start working without you re-adding them. - Protego's floating buttons sat over Reddit's comment box while you were writing: they now fade out while it is open and fade back when you close it. - The Protego button on a post or comment covered Reddit's "Join the conversation" bar: it now slides behind the bar as you scroll, the way Reddit's own buttons do. - Opening a settings search result in another tab could leave a blank page in that tab's history, so Back showed an empty screen: nothing is left behind now. - On old Reddit, a comment Protego collapsed kept the expanded marker on its toggle, so a folded comment looked open: the marker matches now.

Protego 3.5.3 colors your comment threads and adds a batch of smaller comforts across the app. Long conversations are hard to follow when every reply line looks the same. Thread Colors gives each reply depth its own color, on new and old Reddit alike, with four themes to choose from. Old Reddit fans can have image posts expand on their own while they scroll, and short keywords like AI can finally be filters. No account, no tracking, and your lists stay in your own iCloud. WHAT'S NEW: - Thread Colors: give each comment reply depth its own color, so you always know which reply belongs where. Four themes: Default, Rainbow, wobniaR, and Vibecoded, each previewed with its palette before you choose. Works on new and old Reddit; find it in Transform, under Comment Threads. - Auto-expand images: old Reddit image and gallery posts open inline as you scroll, exactly as if you had tapped each expand button. A post you collapse stays collapsed. Find it in Transform, under Feed and Layout. - Two-letter keywords: AI, VR, and other short terms can now be filters. A short keyword with a wildcard, like ai*, also matches longer words, so Protego states the trade-off and asks before adding it. - Crosspost button: a new switch hides Reddit's crosspost control on posts, on both Reddit designs. - Achievement updates: a new switch stops the achievement pill that slides in after you share or comment. Unlike Reddit's own setting, it applies across your devices and survives clearing website data. IMPROVEMENTS: - Keyword groups can be selected right in the list's Select mode: bulk-delete a mixed selection and choose whether the group's keywords go with it, or ungroup with a swipe. - Updating Protego no longer moves you off your chosen preset when an update adds new settings to it. FIXES: - Hiding post thumbnails also hid a card-view post's own photo or video on new Reddit: your media stays visible now, and only the link thumbnail goes.