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.
Stats
By:
Newsfeed Burner
Rating:
3.86
(22)
Creation date:
2016-11-23
Risk impact:
Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Permissions:
Size:
51.37K
URLs:
Website
Stats date:
Chrome-Stats Rank
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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
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.
Doesn't work on any of the three sites (Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn)
I wanted to use this with YouTube, but I couldn't get it to work, so I can't recommend it.
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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