Top Story Remover

This extension removes top stories from the Google News page

Top Story Remover - Customize Your Google News

Top Story Remover is an ultra-lightweight Chrome extension that allows you to fully customize your Google News experience by removing the top-stories section.
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Extension stats

Manifest V2
Users: 9
2
Rating: 4.17
(6)
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2016-11-17)
Creation date: 2016-11-16
Size: 15.71K
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge

User reviews

Works perfectly, but now I am unable to select "top Stories" from the sidebar for when I DO want to read them. Currently, I just disable the plugin, but it'd be great if you could differentiate between my first time loading the news and when I am specifically selecting "Top News".
by Michael Hansen, 2017-03-20

Works just fine in my browser. Thanks!
by A Google user, 2017-01-25

Doesn't work at all.
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Top Story Remover requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
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