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Description from extension meta
Discreetly surf the web! Control exactly how you want web pages to look like.
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Decreased Productivity (DP) creates a more "consistent" browsing experience (for you and others around you) by letting you control what you want to see ("stealth browsing" => text/page background colours, the cloaking of images, hiding page favicons, changing fonts, etc.). You can choose what style you want (e.g. green text on a black background) by going to the Options page (right-click on icon in address bar and click on "Options"). DP has tab-specific support and domain whitelisting/blacklisting!
Supports Arabic, German, English (US and British), Spanish, Tagalog, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian and Portugal), Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)!
Please note that I am not responsible for what you do with this extension and any subsequent consequences; please browse responsibly.
Featured on Lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/5666312/decreased-productivity-for-chrome-camouflages-your-non+work-browsing
Feature List:
-change the default font and font size for cloaked pages (Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, or leave page fonts unchanged)
-set page background, text, link, and table border colours
-hide page icons (aka favicons)
-replace page titles
-keyboard toggle (CTRL + 12)
-choose between tab-specific cloaking or global cloaking
-choose whether new tabs are cloaked or uncloaked by default
-control image opacity
-whitelist/blacklist domains (whitelisted domains will never be cloaked while blacklisted domains will always be cloaked (even if "Enable" is unticked))
-add right-click option to open links/images safely (can be removed in Options)
-choose between four modes: Paranoid (remove images and multimedia), SFW0 (cloak images and multimedia), SFW1 (cloak images and remove multimedia), SFW2 (cloak images only), and NSFW (show all)
-add toggle icon in address bar (can be removed in Options)
-choose from 98 different icons for added discreetness
-set a custom title for the address bar icon
-choose to always show images that are within a specified dimension
-quickly whitelist/blacklist the current tab's domain by right-clicking on the toolbar icon
-import/export settings
-add custom css code
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Changelog:
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v0.46.56.11 - Friday, October 12, 2018
- Fix WhatsApp Web blank white screen upon login
- Add Turkish translation - thanks Serdar!
- Improve Portuguese (Brazil) translation - thanks Cleber!
- Improve Japanese translation - thanks cignoir!
v0.46.56.10 - Monday, December 4, 2017
- Improve WhatsApp Web compatibility: fix blank white screen upon login
- Firefox
v0.46.56.9 - Monday, April 17, 2017
- Tweaked Paranoid Mode - increased usability (e.g. Disqus comment threads now readable) - iframes now visible; cloaked at conservative opacity levels: 5% unhovered / 50% on hover
- Improve Facebook compatibility: main timeline titles, overlayed photos, and chat emojis
- Improve WhatsApp Web compatibility: emojis and message indicators
- Improve Twitter compatibility: overlayed photos
- Improve YouTube compatibility: remove top and bottom bars to increase cloaked video visibility
- Add Wikia compatibility: hide background images
v0.46.56.7 - Monday, July 25, 2016
- Added capability to Import/Export Settings (and even save your settings to a text file)
- Added option to add custom CSS
- Added support for cloaking of <canvas> elements
v0.46.56.6 - Tuesday, June 21, 2016
- minor fixes and improved YouTube cloaking
v0.46.56.5 - Monday, June 20, 2016
- Added support for IPv6 addresses
- Improved performance for users with large lists
v0.46.56.4 - Sunday, June 5, 2016
- Proudly presenting a long-awaited feature: wildcards and single character matching support:
--- Domain Matching: domain.com matches domain.com and www.domain.com
--- Wildcard Matching: *.domain.com matches anything.domain.com (but not domain.com (no subdomain))
--- Single Character Matching: ?.abc.com matches a.abc.com, b.abc.com, 2.abc.com, etc.
--- Note 1: the * and ? can be placed anywhere and/or combined (e.g. ab?.com, cat*.c?)
--- Note 2: if there are any duplicates, the whitelist always takes precedence over the blacklist
- the above update should also result in further improved performance
- added cloaking support for <picture> elements
v0.46.55.1 - Friday, May 20, 2016
- further significant foundation code optimization, resulting in (probably noticeably) faster and more efficient logic and processing
v0.46.54.4 - Thursday, May 19, 2016
- v0.46.54.2-4 - "Stickiness" feature now applies when a bookmark is opened in the background while viewing a currently cloaked tab
- v0.46.54.1 - fixed issue where DP icon was showing it was enabled even when it wasn't
- v0.46.54.1 - fixed situations where the default coffee cup DP icon would be shown despite a custom icon being selected (e.g. creating a new tab)
- optimized foundation code (this is a significant update, too many to list: below are some of the major improvements)
- improved whitelist/blacklist checks
- tab cloak data now includes window IDs for guaranteed tab-specific cloaking
- toggling Global Mode in Options is now enforced immediately (e.g. favicons and page titles) (thanks Vineet)
- "Stickiness" feature (cloaking new tabs opened from cloaked pages) now checks if the new tab's domain is whitelisted or not before cloaking
- eliminated various redundant lookups (e.g. whitelist/blacklist checks)
v0.46.53.3 - Tuesday, May 10, 2016
- auto-update hotkey toggle if stored in old format, fixing issue where the toggle doesn't work after recent updates
- fixed potential issue where DP icon won't appear in the address bar
- now the "Safely open in new tab" context menu item doesn't override your Cloaking Level (previously it was resetting it to SFW0)
- added checks so DP won't try to cloak internal Chrome pages (improving efficiency since extensions don't have permissions to modify them)
- made Update page open in a background tab instead of the foreground (if "Show Update Popup" is enabled in the Options page)
v0.46.53.2 - Thursday, May 5, 2016
- v0.46.53.2 = tweaked Paranoid Mode to Cloak behaviour, fixed page favicon and page titles toggling, and hotkey changes now take effect immediately
- updated core DP cloaking functions so that DP Option setting changes and the Paranoid Hotkey toggle take effect immediately (without temporarily uncloaking and recloaking open tabs)
- optimized number of calls when cloaking a page (from 3 to 1)
- tweaked page favicon cloaking to be instant
- all DP cloaking identifiers now unique on every page load to avoid conflicts/being overwritten
- more reliable "tab stickiness" (if enabled)
v0.46.52.2 - Wednesday, May 4, 2016
- added new Paranoid Hotkey toggle (default: ALT+P) which toggles between Paranoid mode (all images/media hidden) and the Cloaking Level you chose. Like the cloaking toggle, you have full control over what the hotkeys are (the .1 in the version number v0.46.52.1 = a fix so that any change to the Paranoid Hotkey combo is actually saved; .2 = tweaked Paranoid behaviour)
- toolbar icon action now respects DP enabled state
- tweaked hotkey visual display and fixed potential issue
Moved full changelog from inception to: https://github.com/andryou/Decreased-Productivity/blob/master/changelog.txt
Latest reviews
- (2023-03-09) Bryce Killian: What is the point of this extension?
- (2023-02-22) TNS: It is horrible
- (2021-11-29) mat ganja: It is something to have if you work in open office
- (2021-11-09) TB: My favourite extension. I use it at work all the time to sneakily browse the web while I'm bored at work.
- (2021-05-29) r w: Expect the font type and size won't be modified optionally which are hard to be read after being modified.
- (2021-05-18) Zhen: Was working well until Google said "This extension violates the Chrome Web Store policy." and disabled it. I would like to know which policy it violated so I can decide whether to enable it again or not.
- (2021-04-03) Bea E: Thank YOU!
- (2021-01-20) Jessica Salmonson (darkocean): I don't like this at all it's changes the whole pages look I just want the dang font changed to something easy to read and back, black as coal. If you make something simple like that let me know, this isn't my taste at all. An extra star because it did do as described and another because it didn't mess up chrome. (Personally for me 2 star, have to be fair though...)
- (2020-09-15) Cristian Gonzalez: Me encantaría que existiera la opcion de solo opacar las imágenes y el resto del sitio quedara normal o bajarle solo el brillo, por lo menos no se como hacerlo si existe la posibilidad
- (2020-09-01) Ervin Mlok: somehow not working with web.whatsapp ... but extension is good
- (2020-07-16) Kent Pasfield: Love the extension but it has stopped working on WhatsApp web. Can you help
- (2020-01-20) Sunil Patel: Fantastic! I used to use Ghostzilla back in the day (if anybody remembers it!), and was always longing for something like that today. I ended up using Stylish to have custom CSS for each website. But this is so much easier, and right to the point....lots of options, etc Love it!!
- (2019-11-02) Sgt: It's a nifty extension.Some issues though, the line heights gets garbled up a lot of the time (scrunched up text) when you increase text Font size. Also, the Hotkeys don't seem to work all the time. It seems to be a hit and miss situation, but that's a minor issue. 2019-11-02 Actually found that "Ctrl + Shift" shortcut keys are a hit and miss situation. The "Ctrl" shortcut keys seem to work ok.
- (2019-07-24) Shakeim Peoples: Great app does that filters out images and makes it easier to read. For some reason when I have it to show all images and just change the colors, it blocks icons.
- (2019-06-23) Justin Gu: Great, never had an issue
- (2019-06-17) Micky Macanori: Used to work on discordapp.com, now it completely cloaks the entire page, even if I have the option only to change the colors. Needs to be fixed.
- (2019-06-06) Mr. Free: Very useful, you can right click on a link before opening it to open it in safe mode so it does not launch videos and other annoyances
- (2019-05-29) Pascal Guedon: un must-have au boulot, je l'utilise tous les jours
- (2019-05-03) Tõnis Rahe: Genius!!!
- (2019-04-15) Dejan Ivkovic: no need for this extension. what is doing this?
- (2019-04-04) First Last: A creative tool for the corporate slacker. And a great deterrent for the screen lookers. Sometimes I need to look up some stuff without looking like I'm slacking, get off my case!
- (2019-03-09) mark ifi: I block images fairly often, and this is just that, plus more. Good stuff. Not sure why it's 922 K.
- (2019-02-25) Sophia Johnson: i liked it, but it sometimes really screws the format up, like on tumblr
- (2019-01-24) Левоня Мамиконян: Для смены фона нельзя сказать, что самое то, но другое расширение я не нашел, этот меняет цвет фона, надо нажать на значок расширения после установки, это кофейная чашка появится на панели браузера, после установки, щелкните на значок правой кнопкой мыши и появившемся списке выберите Параметры, вы окажитесь на странице настроек, откроется таблица, надо выбрать столбец Clock и в пункте Цвет - Фон указать цвет например для серого фона укажите этот код 3E3D3D для черного 000000 а для светло серого фона 939393, после этого каждый раз открыв новую вкладку или страницу в интернете нажимаете на значок (это кофейная чашка на правом верхнем углу браузера) и фон страницы меняется на указанный вами в параметрах расширения. Можно еще менять цвет и размер шрифтов и многое другое по аналогичной схеме. Разработчикам спасибо!
- (2019-01-07) A Chris: Great extension. Very handy. Distraction free. One request: Can you please provide option to disable the plugin for a given tab? I do not want to whitelist it, I just want to temporarily see the full website or anything that I browse on the given tab.
- (2019-01-03) Mikhail Sokoliuk Jr: Brilliant. Set background color, text color, and link color, and instantly turn any webpage into a scrollable document that is easy to read. Very nice to use at night or at work so all those annoying banners from online stores aren't flashing on your screen.
- (2018-10-05) Leo Norakidze: Please create extension for football scores & goal notifications - I don't want to be going on sports website to find a score.
- (2018-09-28) Alex Haydon: Great for reducing the colours on my screen and allowing me to read webpages in a clean style*! *Great for browsing reddit in a workplace that may or may not be mine.
- (2018-09-21) Za Za: This extension decreased my productivity, 5/5
- (2018-08-21) Wayne Henry: Love this! I use this at work all day, every day.
- (2018-07-27) Absolutely the best choice for blocking out annoying images, etc, and letting me focus on the text. Plus easy-to-use options for customization.
- (2018-06-03) Andrew Adler: It is causing chrome helper to max out at 99% of one cpu.
- (2018-05-24) Jonas de Liz Santos Morais: EXCELENTE!
- (2017-12-28) Eric CL: Excelente posibilidad de camuflaje.
- (2017-12-07) Nicholas McLoughlin: Absolutely fantastic, love it
- (2017-12-04) Sander dos Santos Zuchinalli: Please fix all white screen at whatsapp web
- (2017-10-03) Jacopo Cardinali: AMAZING addon. Simple, clean and effective. One of the best.