/sanersocialmedia

Replace social media distractions with uplifting quotes to improve your productivity.

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Saner Social Media - Feed Blocker for Chrome

Block social media distractions and replace them with uplifting quotes to improve your productivity.

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Supported sites

Site Blocked distractions
YouTube Home feed, sidebar video suggestions, video comments, shorts
X (formerly Twitter) Home feed, sidebar trends, sidebar follow suggestions
Instagram Home feed, explore feed, reels feed
Facebook Home feed
TikTok Home feed
Pinterest Home feed, related pins
LinkedIn Home feed, sidebar trends
Twitch Home feed
Reddit Home feed, subreddit feeds
GitHub Home feed
Hacker News Home feed, /newest feed, /front feed

Other features

  • Temporarily unblock sites for a set amount of time
  • Shows over 1600 different inspiring and uplifting quotes
  • It works with dark modes

Installation

Option 1 – Install from Chrome Web Store (recommended)

Option 2 – Install from GitHub release:

  • Navigate to releases
  • Download extension.zip of your preferred release
  • Open chrome://extensions/ in Chrome and drag the downloaded extension.zip into the page

Development

  • Clone this repo
  • Install dependencies with pnpm install
  • Start dev watchers with pnpm dev
  • Open chrome://extensions/ in Chrome
    • Enable Developer mode
    • Click Load unpacked and select the dist directory

Note: HMR for the options page is not possible yet.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks goes to @jordwest for creating News Feed Eradicator which obviously was a big inspiration for me. I created this extension to add support for more social media sites.

Inspirational quotes provided by dwyl/quotes.