Distraction Shield

Protect yourself from distractions and fight digital addiction while browsing the web.

Distraction Shield: Protect Yourself from Distractions

Distraction Shield is a Chrome extension that shields you from distractions on social media websites, allowing you to increase productivity and fight digital addiction. It disables various features like Facebook newsfeed and notifications, Youtube recommendations, and Reddit comments.
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Extension stats

Users: 14
2
Rating: 5.00
(1)
Version: 0.3 (Last updated: 2020-05-05)
Creation date: 2020-05-05
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • https://facebook.com/*
  • https://*.facebook.com/*
  • https://youtube.com/*
  • https://*.youtube.com/*
  • https://youtu.be/*
  • https://*.youtu.be/*
  • https://reddit.com/*
  • https://*.reddit.com/*
Size: 27.13K

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Increase your productivity by shielding yourself from distractions on social media websites. All shields can be enabled/disabled within a click, you won't have to uninstall the app to bypass the shields.

  • Disable Facebook newsfeed
  • Disable Facebook notification bubbles
  • Disable Youtube recommended videos, suggestions, homepage videos...
  • Disable Reddit comments

User reviews

It works well in YouTube and Zhihu. Thanks!
by William Liu (gricn), 2021-01-09
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Distraction Shield requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Distraction Shield has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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