Spoiler Alert

Rare is the internet user who hasn’t had their day thoroughly ruined by someone on social media giving away the latest plot twist in a hot TV series. But now help is at hand, thanks to the appropriately named Spoiler Alert, a Chrome extension to “stop websites from ruining your day!”.

The app, developed by Preference Labs, a content marketing platform “that is out to fix the internet”, lets users block spoilers about a number of high-profile TV shows and films, with the ability to add your own favourite viewing coming soon.

Gizmodo, which reviewed the app this week, was impressed. “Spoiler Alert isn’t the most refined app you’re going to come across, but it gets the job done,” it concludes. “If want you want to keep unspoiled, then you can rely on it to plaster over any mentions of the show in question.”