disinterest

Name: disinterest
Author: Sami Jokela

By: Sami Jokela

Making websites that one bit less interesting.

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Description

This extension aims to reduce the addictiveness of websites. This is done by applying a filter over the target website, fading out the colors and turning down the brightness. This makes viewing content on the website less stimulating, and in turn makes alternative activities seem more stimulating.

Compared to typical website access limiting extensions, disinterest does not place hard limits or delays on your ability to access websites. Your favourite social media is there as always, it is just worse.

Installation

The extension relies on the experimental css backdrop-filter property. Many browsers support this out of the box, but Firefox requires some configuration.

To enable backdrop-filter support on Firefox, perform the following steps:

Navigate to about:config.
Set gfx.webrender.all to true.
Set layout.css.backdrop-filter.enabled to true.
Restart Firefox.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Sami Jokela

Daily users:

Version:

0.3.0 Last updated: 2020-08-10

Version code:

5079088

Creation date:

2020-08-08

Risk:

Permissions:

<all_urls>
tabs
storage

Size:

10.99KB

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-15

Compare stats and ranking:

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# 146,172 ▲ 3,147

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Developed by:

Sami Jokela

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/disinterest/

User Reviews

This works but I wish it could be set globally and then you have whitelist options.

by Br*****, 2025-03-28

Interesting concept but it works

by Br*****, 2025-03-28

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Is disinterest Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

disinterest requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

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disinterest is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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