Opt Out

Die Partei just dropped an AfD blocker. It comes for Chrome and Firefox, plus there’s a physical version for magazines where you literally flip past the content. The whole thing is obviously a joke, but like all Die Partei’s work, it’s also sincere—an argument buried under absurdism.

I get it, though. I’m exhausted by the constant stream of far-right noise and stupidity in my feed. So here’s a tool that erases it. Sonneborn, Die Partei’s leader, frames it as a genuine innovation—a product for people who’ve decided their lives are better when the AfD doesn’t exist in their browser.

Die Partei does this constantly. They’re a real political party in Germany, but their whole practice is built on satire and deflation—taking things that demand to be taken seriously and treating them as beneath serious engagement. In their view, sometimes the most effective response to trolls isn’t debate or counter-argument; it’s deletion.

What makes the joke work is that it’s also literally true. I don’t have to see them. I can opt out of their existence in the media I choose. In reality, of course, they’d still be everywhere outside my browser, still a problem in the actual world. But in my small corner, in the spaces I control, they’re gone. And maybe that’s Die Partei’s real argument—that I don’t owe them my attention.