Notification Badge Desensitizer

Changes the color of the notification badge on many popular websites from red to gray

Chrome Extension: Notification Badge Desensitizer

Notification Badge Desensitizer is a Chrome extension that changes the color of notification badges from red to gray on popular websites, reducing distractions while browsing.
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Extension stats

Users: N/A
Version: 0.9 (Last updated: 2021-12-18)
Creation date: 2021-10-16
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Size: 4.23K

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Extension summary

Red is a color that we're hard wired to react to. Many social media and other websites use this color on the notification badge to make sure you pay attention to it. Often, this can be distracting or annoying, and so this extension will turn the background of that badge to a neutral gray color so that it doesn't interfere with your browsing experience.

Extension safety

Risk impact

Notification Badge Desensitizer requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Notification Badge Desensitizer has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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