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I made a chrome extension that blocks my Facebook news feed but still allows me to use messenger and see notifications. I'd estimate that I use FB ~90% less now

I made a chrome extension that blocks my Facebook news feed but still allows me to use messenger and see notifications. I'd estimate that I use FB ~90% less now. News feed was the biggest distraction — their algorithm is incredibly optimized to suck you into the rabbit hole. My chrome extension in case anyone is interested: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/marathon/nkhecjgkfpkkcejhbmfjghcokmhbmoed?authuser=1 https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/marathon/nkhecjgkf...

richjdsmith 8y ago
I did the same just by using a couple of element targets from withing uBlock origin. Here they are for anyone interested: www.facebook.com###u_jsonp_3_0 > div www.facebook.com###feed_stream_5a55a64611d#####0189168 > div www.facebook.com###stream_pagelet www.facebook.com###notificationsCountValue The second one, you will likely have to figure out yourself - it looks like each feed stream has a unique id.
timbit42 8y ago
Another good FB plug-in is FBPurity. You can disable all kinds of things including the newsfeed.