# minimal

> A minimal, less attention grabbing, internet experience.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/minimal-internet-experience](https://chrome-stats.com/d/minimal-internet-experience)

## Overview

- **ID:** `minimal-internet-experience`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** AUPYA
- **Category:** privacy-security,appearance
- **Daily users:** 526
- **Weekly downloads:** 15
- **Rating:** 4.62 / 5 (58 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.2
- **Last updated:** 2023-03-21
- **First published:** 2018-11-03
- **Size:** 58 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/minimal-internet-experience/)
- **Website:** [https://minimal.aupya.org](https://minimal.aupya.org/)

## Description

Minimal is a Chrome extension designed to provide users with a minimalistic and distraction-free internet experience. It emphasizes user autonomy, allowing individuals to actively choose the content they want to see rather than being subjected to platform-driven suggestions and distractions.

The extension is open-source, transparent, and does not collect any user data. It works by customizing your browsing interface without altering websites themselves, respecting privacy and promoting a high-quality service based purely on content. Ideal for users seeking a simpler, more focused online experience, Minimal aligns with values of freedom, transparency, and user choice. For any issues or contributions, users are encouraged to engage via its GitLab repository.

## Rankings

- #4,845 — Overall
- #95 — animal
- #101 — trademark
- #108 — experience
- #116 — internet
- #121 — invite

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `storage`
- `tabs`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Reviewers praise minimal's focus-enhancing design and reliable performance on major sites like YouTube, noting it effectively reduces distractions. However, users repeatedly flag YouTube-specific compatibility issues and conflicts with other extensions, plus a lack of a quick on/off toggle or per-site controls. Suggestions include a toolbar toggle, per-site enable/disable, and optional YouTube-specific exceptions. Overall, it delivers a clean, distraction-free experience on supported sites but needs better toggling and site-by-site management to reach broader usability.

### Pros

- Works flawlessly on supported websites, especially YouTube.
- Great for preventing distractions and helping focus while browsing.
- A nice, minimal concept that improves the browsing experience.

### Cons

- YouTube-related disruptions and fragile integration (e.g., changes to YouTube options, homepage becoming empty, and other YouTube-specific issues).
- Conflicts with other extensions/add-ons on sites like Facebook and YouTube, causing site issues.
- Lacks an easy on/off toggle and per-site controls; users want a toolbar icon for quick switching and per-site enable/disable.
- Requests for per-site exceptions or site-specific toggles to avoid breaking certain sites.

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