# Intentional Browsing

> Block the feed. Keep the signal. Visit on purpose. Block algorithmic feeds on popular social media platforms while preserving access to content you actually intend to see, such as messages and direct links, instead of mindlessly scrolling.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/intentional-browsing-ext](https://chrome-stats.com/d/intentional-browsing-ext)

## Overview

- **ID:** `intentional-browsing-ext`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Fabrial
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,appearance,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 0.1.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-01-25
- **First published:** 2026-01-22
- **Size:** 115 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/intentional-browsing-ext/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/altock/IntentionalBrowsing/issues](https://github.com/altock/IntentionalBrowsing/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/intentional-browsing-ext/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/intentional-browsing-ext/privacy/)

## Description

Keep the social and specific links/videos part of social media sites so you can keep using them when you <em>intend</em> to without getting sucked into endless scrolling.

When you click on direct links to social media sites they will still work, it's just the homepages and feeds that won't.

There are settings for major social media sites to hard block the main page, soft block (i.e. the feed is empty), reroute to messages, and in the case of X/twitter default to the 'Following' page instead of the default 'For You' page. These are all settable/toggle-able.

## Rankings

- #98,261 — Overall
- #100 — browsing
- #191 — mention

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webNavigation`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `*://twitter.com/*`
- `*://www.twitter.com/*`
- `*://x.com/*`
- `*://www.x.com/*`
- `*://mobile.twitter.com/*`
- `*://mobile.x.com/*`
- `*://reddit.com/*`
- `*://www.reddit.com/*`
- `*://old.reddit.com/*`
- `*://new.reddit.com/*`
- `*://youtube.com/*`
- `*://www.youtube.com/*`
- `*://m.youtube.com/*`
- `*://instagram.com/*`
- `*://www.instagram.com/*`
- `*://facebook.com/*`
- `*://www.facebook.com/*`
- `*://m.facebook.com/*`
- `*://linkedin.com/*`
- `*://www.linkedin.com/*`
- `*://tiktok.com/*`
- `*://www.tiktok.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `twitter.com`
- `www.twitter.com`
- `x.com`
- `www.x.com`
- `mobile.twitter.com`
- `mobile.x.com`
- `reddit.com`
- `www.reddit.com`
- `old.reddit.com`
- `new.reddit.com`
- `youtube.com`
- `www.youtube.com`
- `m.youtube.com`
- `instagram.com`
- `www.instagram.com`
- `facebook.com`
- `www.facebook.com`
- `m.facebook.com`
- `linkedin.com`
- `www.linkedin.com`
- `tiktok.com`
- `www.tiktok.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: twitter.com, x.com, reddit.com, youtube.com, instagram.com, facebook.com, linkedin.com, tiktok.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

> Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. [Upgrade to view the full analysis](https://chrome-stats.com/pricing).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/intentional-browsing-ext)