Football Spoiler Blocker

Football Spoiler Blocker — Browse the Web Without Having Match Results Ruined You recorded the Champions League final. You saved the Premier League derby to watch after work. You've got a Europa League classic queued up for the weekend. But before you can sit down and enjoy any of it, you need to check your email, glance at the news, scroll through YouTube, or look something up on social media. And that's where things go wrong. One stray headline. One thumbnail with a scoreline. One "WHAT A COMEBACK!" caption in a recommended video. Just like that, the match is ruined before you've watched a single minute. Football Spoiler Blocker exists to solve this exact problem. It's a lightweight Chrome extension that automatically detects and hides football match spoilers on any website you choose — so you can browse the internet freely without stumbling into results you didn't want to see. HOW IT WORKS Football Spoiler Blocker runs quietly in the background on websites you've enabled it for. When a page loads, the extension scans the content and applies three layers of spoiler protection: 1. Score Masking — The extension identifies scorelines in all common formats and replaces them with a neutral "[SCORE HIDDEN]" label. Whether it's a simple "2-1", a formatted "Arsenal 2 - 1 Chelsea", a full-time result like "FT: 2-1", a penalty shootout "(4-3 pens)", or an aggregate score "(3-2 agg)", the extension catches it and hides it. Team names remain visible so you still know which match is being discussed — you just can't see the result. 2. Thumbnail Blocking — Match preview images, post-match graphics, and video thumbnails frequently contain score overlays or celebratory moments that reveal results. Football Spoiler Blocker replaces these images with a clean, spoiler-safe placeholder. The placeholder displays team names without any score information, so you can still identify the match without having the outcome spoiled. 3. Keyword Filtering — Scores aren't the only way results get spoiled. Phrases like "late winner", "hat-trick hero", "clean sheet", "stunning comeback", "demolished", "thrashed", and dozens of other result-revealing terms can give away what happened just as easily as a scoreline. The extension identifies and hides these spoiler keywords throughout the page content so that even editorial language doesn't ruin the surprise. All three layers work together and update in real time. If a website loads content dynamically (as most modern sites do), the extension continues monitoring the page and blocks new spoilers as they appear — whether that's an infinite-scrolling news feed, lazy-loaded video thumbnails, or JavaScript-rendered match widgets. COMPLETE CONTROL OVER WHERE IT RUNS Football Spoiler Blocker doesn't blanket-block the entire internet. You decide exactly which sites it protects, and everything else remains completely untouched. Adding a site takes seconds. Navigate to the website you want to protect, click the extension icon in your toolbar, and toggle "Enable on this site" to ON. That's it. The badge on the extension icon turns green to confirm protection is active. Refresh the page and spoilers are blocked. You can also add sites manually by typing a domain into the input field in the popup — useful for adding sites preemptively before you visit them. Your protected site list is fully manageable from the popup interface. You can see every site you've added, toggle individual sites on and off without removing them, and delete sites you no longer need with a single click. This per-site approach means you stay in control. You might want spoiler protection on YouTube, BBC Sport, and Reddit, but not on your fantasy football site where you actually need to see scores. Football Spoiler Blocker makes that distinction easy. WHEN YOU'RE READY TO WATCH Once you've watched the match and you're ready to see results again, just click the extension icon, toggle the site off, and refresh the page. All original content is instantly restored — scores, thumbnails, headlines, everything. There's no permanent modification to any website. The extension only hides content visually while it's active; nothing is deleted or altered in the underlying page. WHAT GETS BLOCKED — A DETAILED BREAKDOWN The extension is built to catch the wide variety of ways football results appear online. Here is a detailed look at the types of content it handles: Simple Scores: Formats like "2-1", "2:1", "0-0", and similar numeric scorelines are detected and replaced with "[SCORE HIDDEN]". This covers the most common way results appear in headlines, social media posts, and match listings. Scores with Team Names: When scores appear alongside team names — such as "Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea" or "Barcelona 3 - 0 Real Madrid" — the extension hides the numeric portion while preserving the team names. You'll see something like "Arsenal [SCORE HIDDEN] Chelsea" so you know which teams played without learning the result. Full-Time and Half-Time Scores: Results prefixed with "FT:", "Full-Time:", "HT:", or "Half-Time:" are recognized and hidden. These commonly appear in live-blogging platforms, sports tickers, and official league websites. Penalty Shootout Results: When a match goes to penalties, the shootout score often appears in parentheses — "(4-3 pens)", "(5-4 on penalties)", etc. The extension detects these patterns and masks them. Aggregate Scores: In two-legged cup ties, aggregate scores like "(3-2 agg)" or "(5-4 on aggregate)" appear alongside individual match results. These are detected and hidden to prevent you from deducing the overall outcome. Goal Scorer Information: Lines like "Smith 45', Jones 67', Williams 89'" reveal not just who scored but when — which can be just as much of a spoiler as the final score. The extension identifies goal-scorer formatting (player names followed by minute marks) and hides them. Result-Revealing Keywords: Beyond raw scores, editorial content often gives away results thr…