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.

Extension stats

Users: 884 ▲ 7
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

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension 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

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Does what it says
  • Boosts productivity
  • Awesome extension
Cons
  • Doesn't work on YouTube
  • Doesn't work on LinkedIn
  • No troubleshooting or support available
  • Not working on new Facebook
Most mentioned
  • Not working at all
  • Issues with YouTube and LinkedIn
  • Works on Facebook
Recent reviews
Didn't work for me and couldn't see any troubleshooting, FAQ or other support that might help.
by Loz Wong, 2023-09-22

Doesn't work on any of the three sites (Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn)
by 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, 2020-10-15
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Newsfeed Burner requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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

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