LinkedIn notification hider tampermonkey

0-description.md

LinkedIn notifications are almost entirely useless, and this helps avoid wasting willpower trying to make the red counter go away or actually checking them.

Inspired (and complemented) by this script.

hide-linkedin-notifications.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Hide LinkedIn notifications
// @namespace    https://nick-tomlin.com/
// @version      0.1
// @description  Hides LinkedIn "notification" updates (which drive engagement by spamming you with meaningless info about your Network). Based off of https://gist.github.com/JesperDramsch/839365c85133927f694bf5113c77a2f1
// @author       Nick Tomlin
// @match        https://www.linkedin.com/*
// @exclude      https://www.linkedin.com/notifications*
// @grant        none
// @downloadURL  none
// @updateURL    none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
  'use strict';
    function addCss(css) {
      var head = document.head || document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0],
        style = document.createElement('style');
        style.type = 'text/css';
        style.appendChild(document.createTextNode(css));
        head.appendChild(style);
  }

  // Hide a css selector element
  function hideElement(css_selectors) {
    const elements = css_selectors.join(', ')
    addCss(`${elements} {visibility:hidden;}`);
  }

   hideElement([`a[href^="https://www.linkedin.com/notifications/"] .notification-badge`]);
})();