Escape Your Bubble

Escape Your Bubble helps you better understand and accept others.

Escape Your Bubble - Broadening Your Political Outlook

"Escape Your Bubble" is a Chrome extension designed to redress the divisive political climate. It integrates with your Facebook feed, peppering it with handpicked, positive content about groups you wish to better understand. In doing so, it encourages acceptance and open-mindedness towards conflicting points of view.

Extension stats

Manifest V2
Users: 779
Rating: 3.50
(14)
Version: 0.0.0.7 (Last updated: 2016-12-09)
Creation date: 2016-12-08
Permissions:
  • *://www.facebook.com/*
  • storage
Size: 21.68K
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

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

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Simple, easy to use
  • Useful for greater context
  • Doesn't slow down Facebook and Chrome functionality
  • Shows articles outside of normal reading style
  • Barely noticeable and does not interfere with daily web use
Cons
  • Requires email and password signup
  • Repeated login popups
  • Sometimes displays old articles
  • Clicking links directs back to Facebook rather than the article
  • Same article shows repeatedly until clicked on
Most mentioned
  • Requires login
  • Doesn't slow down Facebook and Chrome
  • Displays different perspective articles
  • Links don't lead to articles
  • Inserts stories into Facebook feed
User reviews
After i made a bad review. The site kept on trying to force me to login. I would open my facebook page, and every time i would open a new page the login page from this site would pop out at me. If this is how they deal with negative press, what to think. Avoid this app. Protect your privacy.
by Jamison Young, 2018-01-03

Requires signing up with email and password... except the create account page says "please fill out all fields before proceeding", when ALL the fields ARE filled out. So, it's useless. A virtual brick. Expected better of something done by Yale.
by Derek, 2017-12-28

Is ok in that the articles it shows are often outside of my normal reading style, but it has several annoying features, the main one being that every time I restart my browser and then go to facebook, I get a login window for this app. Also, when I do get shown an article that I'm not interested in reading, I keep seeing the same article until i give in and click on it to make it go away.
by Kieran Colfer, 2017-09-26
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Escape Your Bubble requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Request access to the following domains: facebook.com
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Risk likelihood

We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of Escape Your Bubble. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • Critical This extension is not longer available in the store
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