# LiteNews

> Automatically redirect news articles to their publisher's lite version if available. This is useful if you are on a low-bandwidth connection or just want your news to load faster! This works for: -CNN -NPR -Daily Mail -CS Monitor -CBC

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/litenews](https://chrome-stats.com/d/litenews)

## Overview

- **ID:** `litenews`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** LoefflerLabs
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging
- **Daily users:** 4
- **Version:** 0.0.2
- **Last updated:** 2024-01-20
- **First published:** 2024-01-17
- **Size:** 129 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/litenews/)
- **Website:** [https://www.litenews.today](https://www.litenews.today/)

## Description

Are you tired of clicking news articles and waiting while ads, videos, and auto-playing content load? LiteNews automatically redirects you to the text-only versions of news articles if they are available. If you have a low-bandwidth connection, need the text-only versions for accessibility, or just want your news to load faster, give it a try! You can always disable redirection by using the extension's popup toggle.

LiteNews currently supports:
-CNN
-NPR
-Daily Mail
-The Christian Science Monitor
-CBC

## Rankings

- #50,619 — Overall
- #206 — news

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `https://cnn.com/*`
- `https://www.npr.org/*`
- `https://www.dailymail.co.uk/*`
- `https://www.csmonitor.com/*`
- `https://www.cbc.ca/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.cnn.com`
- `www.npr.org`
- `www.dailymail.co.uk`
- `www.csmonitor.com`
- `www.cbc.ca`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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