Healthy Social Media

Reduce addictive and neurotic aspects of social media.
What is Healthy Social Media?
Healthy Social Media is a Chrome extension that aims to reduce addictive and neurotic aspects of social media such as Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube. It hides unnecessary information, encourages moderation, and helps users reduce their dependence on external validation.

Extension stats

Users: 3
Rating: 4.00 (1)
Version: 1.3.6 (Last updated: 2018-07-10)
Creation date: 2018-07-10
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
Size: 65.10K

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Extension summary

Reduces addictive and neurotic aspects of Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube. This extension hides certain information from these social media sites that provides no real value to the user and only serves to keep you addicted to the site. This extension also has some features that are intended to improve the efficiency at which you use these sites. This extension may help you reduce your dependence on external validation (likes on your posts) and it may help you use these social media sites with moderation.

-- Features (options are available to customize these) --

Facebook:

  • Hides your friend counts
  • Hides the like/reaction counts on your posts

Reddit:

  • Hides scores on your own posts, comments
  • Hides your total karma
  • Button to mark a page of posts as seen, so when you come back later, you know which posts you already looked at.

Twitter:

  • Hide the number of followers you have
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User reviews

It would be great if it could block all Karma and scores on Reddit, not just your own.
by Need Eighteen, 2019-06-26
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Healthy Social Media requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Healthy Social Media has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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