Friction for Facebook
Extension Delisted
This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-16.
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- Unpublished Long Ago
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Description from extension meta
Makes Facebook less addictive
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Description from store
Friction makes Facebook less addictive by:
1) Dimming alert badges to a calm grey
2) Makes the notification box more boring
3) Auto-hides the newsfeed and adds a delay to loading it
The problem with other productivity apps like StayFocused and News Feed Eradicator is that they don't tackle the main root of why people end up procrastinating on sites: they are deliberately designed to be highly addictive.
Friction for Facebook tries to undo the work of addiction engineers not by forcing you to go cold-turkey, but by adding friction to bad habits and making stimuli less alarming.
Latest reviews
- Lina Andersson
- This doesn't work with the new FB layout so can't use it..
- Hassan Hodges
- Possibly the greatest thing ever. Wish this were an option for any website.
- Angelina Li
- This is great, thank you for making it! I'm wondering whether it would also be possible to remove the number of notifications from the title of the page? (i.e. have it read 'Facebook' all the time instead of '(2) Facebook') I think I would find that pretty useful.
- Adam B
- Awesome work! Love it! It would be nice if we could enable/disable different bits of the extension. Also I can see my newsfeed content while the page is loading, then it disappears when the page load finishes. This makes it super tempting to enable newsfeed and see what was there! Would be best if you never saw newsfeed content.
- Dirk Haupt
- Want to share it with friends but am scared to in case it gets popular and Facebook decides to take this down
- Max
- This is what I was looking for! Small ask: Please alter it so it only hides the newsfeed and not when I am reading a lengthy post that I opened seperately in a new Tab. This is pretty annoying, as I still check up on some people that write interesting lengthy posts on facebook.
- Mahmoud Ghanem
- good for separating dealing with messages and notifactions.
- Leo Gundle
- Fantastic extension - is cuts down my facebook time and discourages me from using it using nice little nudges - thoroughly recommend