{"id":783444,"date":"2026-07-06T08:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783444\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T08:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:06:10","slug":"how-to-avoid-spoilers-online-mute-keywords-comments-and-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783444\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Avoid Spoilers Online: Mute Keywords, Comments, and Chats"},"content":{"rendered":"

With multiple streaming services to choose from and the entire history of cinema<\/a> and television<\/a> to dig into, you\u2019d be forgiven for not being quite up-to-date with the latest films and shows. That\u2019s where spoilers can hit you.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s a twisty Netflix<\/a> thriller or the season finale of a show on Apple TV<\/a>, there will be times when you haven\u2019t gotten around to watching something and yet you don\u2019t want the plot spoilt for you. When you\u2019re in that scenario, going online is fraught with risk.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t ever eliminate that risk entirely, but there are ways to minimise the chances of something being spoilt for you.<\/p>\n

Mute Your Socials<\/p>\n

\"Muting<\/p>\n

Courtesy of David Nield<\/p>\n

Many of the biggest social media platforms come with ways for muting posts that contain certain words, giving you a way of hiding content mentioning specific movies and shows. For this to really work, you have to pick your muted words carefully, and you might want to include acronyms and abbreviations for the content in question, just to be sure.<\/p>\n

On X, for example, you can open up Settings and privacy from the left-hand menu on desktop or mobile, then choose Privacy and safety > Mute and block > Muted words. Any posts containing the words you specify here won\u2019t show up on your timeline and won\u2019t trigger any notifications inside the app. For each word or phrase, you can also set a time period for the muting to be in effect.<\/p>\n

If Bluesky is your social platform of choice, open up Settings from the navigation menu on the left, then pick Moderation > Muted words & tags. As with X, you can choose to have words muted for a certain time period or until you unmute them again. Threads has something similar under Hidden Words in the Privacy menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With multiple streaming services to choose from and the entire history of cinema and television to dig into,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,252338,61],"class_list":["post-783444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gadgets-wearable-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}