News Feed Eradicator
Extension Actions
CRX ID
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Status
- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Description from extension meta
Eradicate distractions and take back control of your browsing
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Description from store
Do you often want to check social media, and then find yourself disappearing for hours as you're consumed by the endless scrolling? Do you want your life back, but can't bear to delete social media altogether?
This is where News Feed Eradicator comes in.
News Feed Eradicator removes the most addicting part of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks - the feed - and replaces it instead with an inspirational quote. You can still use the other functionality as usual, you just won't get sucked into the attention hole.
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“It's easy to quit Facebook. I've done it hundreds of times.” ~ Mark Twain
Latest reviews
- Kris Hubley
- No longer working correctly on LinkedIn. Requires one to refresh the page each time on LinkedIn in order for the eradicator to block the homepage. One step forward, two steps back
- Nithin
- New version is such a bad user experience. Almost feels like someone new bought the app and totally f-ed it up. Please just give us the old version.
- Jon McMillan
- I leave detailed commentary on recent changes to others, I'm not a programmer nor a particuarly heavy user of facebook in any case, part of that no doubt because I started using New Feed Eradicator a looooong time ago and never really go into the habit of scrolling the news feed. I have always been reasonably adamant that a program has to suit my needs, not the other way around, so when facebook switched to the newsfeed format I had to find a way around it or leave. Thankfully for me this script has been doing the job for years. I can still message with my friend from around the world or use marketplace without having to see whatever BS is being promoted by an algorythm into the feed. I would like it if the series of images of people (stories?? I honestly don't know) between the 'what's on your mind' and the eradicator quote would disapear again. It only recently popped up for me and it's fairly distracting.
- Bean Weekly
- doesnt work on brave browser for me (would love to see this fixed) but still given 5 stars as it is amazing on chrome
- blackcaer
- Pls enable us to bring back the older look, new one is worse. Previously it was faster and simpler
- Mohamed hatim
- facebook isnt working even if its enabled !!!!
- Evelyn Goslin
- LIFE SAVING. I've been trying to kick my Facebook addiction since 2015, and I've NEVER succeeded until now. This has made Facebook an enjoyable website to open up again. I can check my notifications, message friends, check on my favorite groups or local events, and then WALK AWAY. I truly couldn't do that before. I've told all my friends about this extension and will continue to do so. This is truly amazing!
- Artur Dobosz
- Before the changes, I would have given it 5 stars. There was a great feature to unlock only one page, but now unlocking activates the news feed on every page. Because of this, when I want to unlock YouTube but have Facebook open to chat with someone, I automatically fall into the trap and start scrolling through Facebook.
- Kay Peacey
- This plugin is a true gift to anyone working in digital marketing. Thank you! I need to be on the social platforms for work, but don't want the compelling distractions of the feeds. This plugin made my working days more productive, less frustrating and just... nicer.
- Anthony Albano
- Better since latest update. Can now remove blur. I do miss having the option to snooze a specific website. Now we have less control, and can only "snooze" all websites at the same time. Can we get the old functionality back please? The extension was perfect. Thank you for all the hard work. I know it sucks to get all the hate but it's cause we love what you created.
- Lord Ackermann
- stopped working on facebook and there was no straightforward method to report it so i commneted here
- Guillaume
- Was using the app for years. But then Facebook's feed reappears as a clickable, blurry distraction. I cannot fathom why this decision was made. And without any option to choose it or not? Nope. I'm going with the UnDistracted app., right this second. Bye bye Newsfeed Eradicator :( , it's been a satisfyingly simple journey. I guess you had to take a risk and change a perfectly working formula? Tell me if you change it back and I'll give you back your 5 stars. You deserve them for the years of service.
- 許祐綸
- Not work on Twitter
- Steven Anteau
- Do NOT like this new update. The app was perfect. I would've paid $5 for it if you charged me. Now it sucks. The new "box" is gawdy and ugly, and yes, I turned off the toolbar, it's still twice and size and super obtrusive. It's broken to where if I put hide "feed" in Reddit it hides the feed for all subreddits. It messed up the way my Youtube UnHook works. I could go on. Can't you just leave things alone?
- kevin haslam
- Been using happily for ages, then all of a sudden it gets a solid box around it with multiple buttons and it looks ugly like it doesn''t belong there now and it now loads the feed (blurred) with the scroll bar being tiny where it just simply wasn't there before. The old version had the same background as facebook and looked like it belonged, not just a big box slapped in the middle of the webpage New update is horrible - I also don't want to have options to click to allow me to snooze it Please don't give me that temptation
- Vishwa Punchihewa
- Absolutely great app! But the new version, I am seeing stories on Facebook eventhough it's disabled in the extension & sometimes instagram displays "Sorry, something went wrong." altogether. If these can't be fixed, please rollback.
- Adam Salo
- The latest update was a step backwards. I really liked the ability to fully blackout my home page, so I couldn't see any attention grabbing content. Now it's a transparent effect that allows me to see the videos on my home page. I cant even understand the logic for this as a toggleable feature, the whole point of this software was to eradicate distractions from my feeds. Having the ability to make the feed transparent does not help accomplish that goal at all. In fact I would argue that this feature would actually increase the amount people would get distracted compared to how it used to be with this extension fully blacking out the home page on YouTube.
- MY GMAIL
- turn back to previous verision - also add TIKTOK
- Michael Ratliff
- I don't know why software developers come out with a good product, get bored with it and feel like they need to reinvent the wheel with a ridiculous completely overhauled update that no one asked for. I've used this extension for a long time with no hiccups then the new 3.0 version came out with a gaudy interface that doesn't fit in with anything. Trying to figure out how to keep 2.3 going without it automatically updating to this new awful version. It seems like that's the way all software is going nowadays unfortunately, stuff I've used for years and was perfectly operational for my needs gets completely overhauled with forced updates seems like this is yet another one.
- Wei Xun He
- I rarely write reviews. But this app is so good I have to. I've used this for 3 years. Love every minute of it. I enjoy having control over free tools who's goal is to steal my attention. Thank you for helping me claw it back!
- Christian Meinerding
- I love this extension. It helps me to be more productive, and always ask myself, do I really want to scroll through this feed right now?
- chris
- feb 4 update goofed it, was perfect before please rollback
- Eoghan McDowell
- After 4 Feb 2026 update, the "eradicator" still shows a blurred version of the news feed, which is a significant distraction. Prior to this update I really liked this extension.
- Claire Joy Mariquit
- Best fb addiction stopper out there!! Everyone should know about this! Hopefully an app is in the works too.
- Anthony Albano
- Not a fan of the new UI. Looked better+cleaner before. Also i don't wanna see what content i'm missing under the "glass"
- Muhaiminul Yeamin
- Not working on Facebook after the latest update. Please add the option to edit and add new sites.
- Felipe Alves Rodrigues
- First of all, congratulations on the extension. It's really very useful! But regarding the latest update, I didn't understand the need for the post blur; they still appear, but they're blurred... it was better before, when nothing appeared. If it were at least an optional feature, but no, it's the default and there's no way to revert to the previous version.
- 3yen
- Not working in X since update
- dani matev
- I don't like the new "Glassy" UI. It kind of defeats the purpose of the eradicator. I really liked the simple design, because on the back of my mind, I completely forgot that facebook/instagram/youtube even had an infinite scroll page. Out of sight, out of mind. I just quickly went through my messages or subscriptions and it was great. Now with the glassy UI, its that tick "Oh wait, you have all that content, but its behind a wall!". I know there is content and I want to access it, I have to use willpower to not click the "10 min pause". the UX now constantly reminds me "There is dopamine, but you can't access it!". Sometimes you can even see what the content is about... It defeats the purpose by about 70%. It would be almost the same if you just made the links to posts unclickable...
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- best thing ever
- Ran Yad Shalom
- Long time user here: what a pleasant surprise was the new version this morning! It is freakin' AWESOME. Especially the improved quote manager. Keep up the great work!
- Steven Anteau
- Do NOT like this new update
- Đức Nguyễn Minh
- Love the new update
- Jack Marshall
- Have been using for years. Amazing. I have my time back.
- Parker M
- Oi. This extension is amazing. I have been using it for years. Thx for including the 'hide toolbars' feature so it keeps the clean look. Maybe make the quote text a bit more bold too. So it punches me in the productivity.
- Sulav
- This new update is great. Thank you!
- Bacho Kekelidze
- text color became black, when I visit youtube or other website with dark theme I can barely see the text
- Eliel Berra
- What an amazing extension, thank you!
- deepak malik
- simple and yet incredibly effective. I have been using it since 3yrs now. It is the first extension I install every time I install chrome.
- Daniel Phillion
- sir please change font color cause i cant see it at all
- Ferenc Szabo
- Best thing. No wasted time. I actually remember to get done what I log in for. Thanks!
- Daniel Poelzgutter
- Works flawlessly, thank you!
- Clint James
- Thank you.
- Douglas Ribeiro
- Pure gold right here my friendss. Thanks!
- Shelby Smith
- I cant give this a high enough rating. I want to use Youtube to look up specific videos and not get lost down a tunnel. I want to get on FB to read and post on specific groups - not endlessly scroll. This takes away the ability to endlessly scroll. It works so well and has brought peace back to these platforms, i get on, find the thing i need and then jump off. and then i go do the rest of life.
- Leon Gorman
- Simply and effective. Highly recommend.
- Alina Cruz Mompie
- Excellent. I love the fact that it is open-source btw
- Pavithra Bhaskaran
- THANK YOU <3
- Sougata Chowdhury
- very good but as a freelancer i have to use custom feed in reddit so it also blocked that too
- A K
- does not work for linkedin