The short version

You can't stop the internet talking about a show. You can stop your browser showing it to you.

Hide Spoilers scans the pages you visit for words you choose and blurs anything that matches: text, images, and whole sections of a page. You add the show name once and then browse normally. It's free on Chrome and Safari.

Step 1: Install it

Add Hide Spoilers to Chrome or Safari. There's no account and no sign-up.

Step 2: Add the thing you're avoiding

Open the extension and add your keywords. Start with:

The show or film name. "Severance", "Dune".
Character names. These leak more than titles do, because people discussing a twist name the character, not the show.
Episode markers. "S03E07", "season 3 finale", "the finale".
Words that travel with spoilers. "dies", "ending explained", "post credit".

Multi-word phrases work, so "season 3 finale" matches as a phrase rather than blurring every page containing the word "finale".

Step 3: Browse normally

That's it. Anything matching a keyword gets blurred where it sits. You can see something is there, you just can't read it, so your feed stays usable instead of full of holes.

It works across most sites, including Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, and news sites.

Blur, not delete. If you decide you want to see something, you can reveal it. The point is that seeing it becomes a decision instead of an accident.

What to do the day before you watch

The riskiest window is between an episode airing and you getting to it. A few habits that help more than the extension alone:

Add keywords before the episode airs, not after. The spoiler you see is usually in the first five minutes of scrolling.

Add the vaguer words too. Thumbnails and headlines rarely name the show. "ending explained" and "that scene" catch more than the title does.

Mute notifications from group chats. No extension can help you there, and that is where most people actually get spoiled.

When you've caught up

Remove the keywords, or leave them. Removing takes a second, and leaving them costs nothing except that older discussion stays blurred.

If you're mid-way through a back catalogue, leave them on. The internet has already spoiled every season and does not know which one you're on.

What it cannot do

Being straight about the limits:

It can't read images. A spoiler in a thumbnail with no matching text nearby may get through.
It can't cover apps. This is a browser extension, so the native Twitter, YouTube and Reddit apps on your phone are outside it.
It can't guess. It matches the words you give it. A spoiler phrased in a way you didn't anticipate is not caught, which is why choosing keywords well matters more than anything else.