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January 31, 2024
Hidden risks: your profile and activities on Strava
Strava's default settings expose more than just your fitness stats. Learn how to safeguard your routes and routines with some simple privacy tweaks.
Block Party updates
November 16, 2023
Privacy Party for Firefox is now in beta
What to expect and how to get started
Tips & tricks
October 10, 2023
How and when to mute keywords on X (formerly Twitter)
Protect your peace by actively pruning your timeline.
Block Party updates
September 27, 2023
Getting Started with Privacy Party
The extension is now in public beta. Here’s how it works.
Tips & tricks
August 21, 2023
How to protect your loved ones with safe social media practices
Do you have a loved one at risk of harassment? Play your part in keeping them safe by cleaning up your shared digital footprint.
Tips & tricks
August 16, 2023
Hidden risks: tags on Instagram
Even if you have a private account, Instagram tags can be used to hurt you unless you fix your settings.
Tips & tricks
August 9, 2023
Hidden risks: automatic friending on Venmo
Automatic friending is a scourge, and you should turn it off immediately.
Tips & tricks
August 2, 2023
Hidden risks: hiding Venmo payments
There’s no good reason anyone needs to see your Venmo payments.
Tips & tricks
July 31, 2023
Hidden risks: shared friends lists on Venmo
Your Venmo friends list is public by default. Here's how to fix that—and why you should even care. (Spoiler: it's pretty useful to bad actors online.)
Tips & tricks
July 26, 2023
Hidden risks: photo tags on Facebook
Attackers can use the photo tagging feature on Facebook to identify important people in your life, build a mental model of your behaviors, or target you for further harassment—but it only takes a few minutes to take back control.
Tips & tricks
July 24, 2023
What to do when you’re experiencing online abuse
Practical steps to take in a crisis.
Block Party updates
May 30, 2023
Hello, Privacy Party
Reduce your risk of harassment, cyberstalking, impersonation, fraud, spam, and other online attacks with automated privacy playbooks for your social accounts.
Block Party updates
May 30, 2023
Block Party’s Twitter product is on indefinite hiatus as of May 31
We’re so sorry we couldn’t stay.
Stories
April 19, 2023
Is the secret to saving the social media ecosystem buried in California privacy legislation?
Authorized agents offer a safe path to greater consumer control over social media, if we let them.
Stories
April 19, 2023
What to do about bad actors in an authorized agent ecosystem
Stories
February 22, 2023
Building culture as a remote team
Stories
January 10, 2023
Coming to terms with the messy spectrum of online speech
Who should do the labor — and hold responsibility — for content moderation in the age of Twitter 2.0
Tips & tricks
December 23, 2022
How to handle a Twitter pile-on
Reduce your exposure to Twitter harassment quickly by following the steps in this tutorial.
Tips & tricks
December 23, 2022
How to ask for help with Twitter harassment—with templates you can copy/paste
Need to ask someone for help managing harassment on Twitter, or give your boss a heads up that it's happening? We drafted the messages so you don't have to.
Tips & tricks
December 23, 2022
How to clean up your Twitter timeline
Four techniques to see more of what you want (and less of what you don’t).
Block Party updates
October 27, 2022
When smashing the block button is not enough
Keep all the receipts with block reasons
Block Party updates
September 21, 2022
Towards a social media ecosystem that prioritizes user control
Reflections on Block Party’s seed round and what we need to cultivate a middleware ecosystem
Block Party updates
May 26, 2022
To build or not to build
Auto-muting “johnnybunchanumbers” accounts
Block Party updates
April 6, 2022
Banishing the bots with Keyword Filters 🤖🙅♀️
Introducing a new way to filter out the noise in your mentions
Stories
March 3, 2022
The path to a better internet for everyone
It's time to put the power in the hands of the users
Block Party updates
December 23, 2021
Helping you reclaim your time in 2021
As we enter the final stretch of 2021, we’re filled with gratitude for our community. We couldn’t ask for a more thoughtful and engaged group of people. It’s a privilege to support you.
Stories
November 26, 2021
Who should pay for online safety?
Here at Block Party, each new user signup is met with gratitude…and sadness.
Block Party updates
October 14, 2021
Block Party enters general availability!
Today we hit a milestone that has been three years in the making: we’re finally out of open beta!
Stories
October 14, 2021
How we designed block lists to avoid the dragnet effect
Today Block Party introduces our take on bulk blocking: block lists.
Block Party updates
July 26, 2021
What’s in a waitlist
Ask about tactics for introducing a new product to the market, and inevitably someone will recommend a waitlist.
Tips & tricks
June 5, 2021
Goodbye, adiós, さようなら, 再見 trolls!
Block Party works in every language
Block Party updates
January 15, 2021
Launching open signups for Block Party!
Introducing the "anti-troll toll"
Stories
November 18, 2020
#AMA Imagine it’s 2025...what does the world look like?
Block Party founder and CEO Tracy Chou recently did a couple of “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) online events that surfaced excellent questions about Block Party, how our product works, our vision for the future, and other nuanced discussion topics.
Stories
November 14, 2020
The terrible task of documenting abuse
Some number of years ago, a man who’d first found me from my posts on Quora started messaging me.
Stories
August 27, 2020
Ask Me Anything About Reddit’s Cesspit of Toxicity
The irony is not lost on me that I incited a tidal wave of harassment from Reddit’s cesspit of toxicity because I went in there to talk about working on anti-harassment software.
Stories
August 26, 2020
#WorthTheMention: Liz Lee
On #WorthTheMention, we’re highlighting those using their voice online for good. Today, we’re chatting with Liz Lee, founder of the online safety platform OnlineSOS.
Stories
August 13, 2020
#WorthTheMention: Alexi Pappas
On #WorthTheMention, we’re highlighting those using their voice online for good. Today, we’re chatting with the incredible Olympic runner, award-winning filmmaker, and writer, Alexi Pappas!
Block Party updates
July 24, 2020
Release notes, July 2020
Helper guidelines, notifications, improved refresh times
Stories
May 28, 2020
A case study in online harassment: The Black woman in tech earning £130,000 a year
This is a guest post by Abadesi Osunsade, founder of Hustle Crew, a careers community on a mission to make tech more inclusive, and co-host of Techish podcast.
Stories
May 18, 2020
Online in the time of coronavirus
As the weeks under lockdown have blurred into months, a new normal that even vaguely resembles the old normal only seems further away.
Stories
May 5, 2020
What counts as harassment, anyways?
A couple weeks ago I posted a mildly sarcastic tweet about Barry’s Bootcamp and I ended up solidly in the Twitter crosshairs of one of Silicon Valley’s most notoriously noxious individuals.
Stories
February 4, 2020
Bringing you a safer online experience
AKA some "personal" news: I'm here to tell you about my startup Block Party!
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