Corona Blocker

Take a break from Coronavirus/COVID-19 news, block ALL mentions of Coronavirus from top news websites and social networks.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2020-11-03

By: Abdullah.Diaa

Users: 404

Rating: 3.67 (6)

Version: 1.0.7 (Last updated: 2020-04-09)

Risk impact: Very high risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

webRequest
webRequestBlocking
storage
*://*.facebook.com/*
*://*.twitter.com/*
*://*.worldometers.info/*
*://*.statista.com/*
*://*.cnn.com/*
*://*.cnbc.com/*
*://*.bbc.com/*

Size: 6.75M

Price: Free

URLs: Website

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Extension summary

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Take a break from Coronavirus news, block ALL mentions of Coronavirus from top news websites and social networks. Coronavirus related images in news websites will be replaced by cat photos and any URL with corona keyword will be redirected to cat relaxing videos.

You can disable cat images from extension options. The extension blocks coronavirus news from these websites only: facebook.com twitter.com worldometers.info statista.com cnn.com cnbc.com bbc.com news.yahoo.com news.google.com huffpost.com

User reviews

This plugin salvaged the internet for me.

Erik Dietrich, 2020-07-15

I didn't like the fact that the news websites became empty. It makes the navigation not pleasant.... like something is missing

עידו פרנקנטל, 2020-04-04

didnt work

A. C., 2020-04-01

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Corona Blocker is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this extension unless you absolutely trust this publisher.