Goodreads Review Shield for Authors

Goodreads for Authors to protect their mental health that hides ratings and low reviews.
What is Goodreads Review Shield for Authors?
Goodreads Review Shield for Authors is a Chrome extension that helps authors protect their mental health by hiding ratings and low reviews on the Goodreads platform.

Extension stats

By: kopptech
Users: 344 ▲ 17
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2022-10-06)
Creation date: 2022-09-12
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 39.81K

Other platforms

Goodreads ratings for Amazon (v1.8.0)
4.86 (7) 194
Goodreads ratings for Amazon (v2.0.5)
5.00 (1) 189
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Extension summary

This plugin was made for authors who would like to use Goodreads but not at the cost of their mental health.

When enabled in the NEW Goodreads theme (as shown in screenshots 1-3) it automatically sorts your reviews to 5* and most recent.

If you're still on the OLD theme, you can try opening an incognito window and paste the link to your book. There's a high chance it will be the new theme (might take a few tries), just make sure to enable the extension to work with private browsers first AND once you get the new theme you have to reload the page once for the sorting to adjust.

In the new theme it immediately hides:

  1. Star ratings on all pages, including individual book pages and author profile.
  2. Number ratings on book pages and author profile.
  3. Ratings graph below Community Reviews on book pages.
  4. Social ratings on the book pages.
  5. All reviews that are not set as 5* on book pages.
  6. Average number rating on the Author Dashboard.
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User reviews

It works!
by Trevor Reynolds, 2024-09-18

Works like a charm! I can finally go on GR without worrying about potentially spiraling into an existential crisis. Whoever created this deserves everything and then some.
by Deanna Grey, 2022-09-30
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Goodreads Review Shield for Authors requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Goodreads Review Shield for Authors has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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