https://github.com/nvinayvarma189/hide-home-feed
A chrome extension to hide the home feed for social media websites
https://github.com/nvinayvarma189/hide-home-feed
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A chrome extension to hide the home feed for social media websites
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/nvinayvarma189/hide-home-feed
- Owner: nvinayvarma189
- License: mit
- Created: 2022-01-10T08:28:21.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-01-19T19:11:53.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-08T06:12:15.198Z (8 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 47.9 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Hide-home-feed
A chrome extension to hide the home feed for social media websites.
## Why to hide the feed?
Social Media is great but addictive. I Often block every social media website altogether. Sometimes to not waste time and sometimes because of its noise.
By noise I mean, too many (strong) opinions and clickbaits. Although I try to follow topics/people very selectively, I still see 90% noise. 10% of the content is truly amazing.
However, I would eventually unblock them because I require social media to connect with people and keep myself updated.
Finally, it struck me that most of the noise comes from the feeds. I just need to block the home feed and I would still be able to view content when I need to. That sounded just about right.
## Why this extension?
There are already some good extensions that do this. But I wanted minor customizations. Also, I've always been curious about how chrome extensions are built. I'm a huge extensions fan. So I thought I'll learn the basics atleast.
## What does it do?
When this chrome extension is installed, it will redirect all requests that are going to `reddit.com` and `reddit.com/r/*` pages to `google.com`. Individual reddit posts are allowed.
## Usage
It is yet to be published in the marketplace. I didn't want to. But if you really want to use it :
Clone this repo and manually load it like [this](https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/2664769?hl=en)