Escape Your Bubble

Escape Your Bubble helps you better understand and accept others.

What is Escape Your Bubble?

"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.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2024-03-14

By: https://www.escapeyourbubble.com

Users: 779

Rating: 3.50 (14)

Version: 0.0.0.7 (Last updated: 2016-12-09)

Creation date: 2016-12-08

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

*://www.facebook.com/*
storage

Size: 21.68K

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#AS FEATURED IN: Wired Magazine, The Next Web, Mashable & Lifehacker#

#MISSION#

We need to be more accepting of our fellow countrymen.

Our dream is simple. We are appalled by the amount of hatred we have for our political opponents here in America and we want to change that.

We need to make a stronger effort to understand the arguments of our political opponents. We need to be more accepting of the views of our political opponents. And we need to understand that, at the end of the day, we are all trying to do what is best for our country.

So we built a Chrome Extension to help us all out. It works by breaking through your siloed online experience and inserting into your Facebook News Feed articles and pictures which shed your political opponents in a positive light, challenge your worldview, and encourage you to get to know the other side better.

Give it a try right now!

#HOW IT WORKS#

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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.

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.

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.