Newsfeed Burner

Newsfeed Burner

Burn away the distractions and increase your productivity by blocking newsfeeds from Linkedin, Facebook and Youtube.

What is Newsfeed Burner?
Newsfeed Burner is a unique Chrome extension aimed at increasing productivity and reducing distractions. By effectively blocking newsfeeds from social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube, it creates a more efficient and distraction-free online environment. Highly beneficial for those who find themselves losing time to irrelevant videos, posts and updates.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 966 ▲ 33
Rating: 3.86 (22)
Version: 1.0.2 (Last updated: 2016-11-23)
Creation date: 2016-11-23
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 51.37K
URLs: Website
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Merlin
Summary

Do you catch yourself having spent the last 15min watching cat videos or a Jimmy Kimmel clip? Have you gone to LinkedIn to check your messages and ended up solving some dumb math problems on the newsfeed? Perhaps ever opened Facebook and your skipped a thought since there was a twerking video that some person you added 2 years ago and don't really know liked?

This extension is supposed to help with all that.

User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Works great with Facebook
  • Boosts productivity
  • Allows for toggling off for 15-minute increments
Cons
  • Doesn't work with YouTube or LinkedIn
  • No easily accessible support or troubleshooting
  • Interfers with management of YouTube and LinkedIn accounts
Most mentioned
  • Works well with Facebook
  • Doesn't work with YouTube or LinkedIn
  • Could have more user control over blocking specific feeds
Recent reviews
Didn't work for me and couldn't see any troubleshooting, FAQ or other support that might help.
by Loz Wong Loz Wong, 2023-09-22

Doesn't work on any of the three sites (Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn)
by Aidan Potts Aidan Potts, 2020-12-20

I wanted to use this with YouTube, but I couldn't get it to work, so I can't recommend it.
by Harold Velázquez Harold Velázquez, 2020-10-15
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Safety
Risk impact

Newsfeed Burner is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Newsfeed Burner has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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