News Feed Eradicator is a browser extension for people who want to stop scrolling social media feeds and see an inspirational quote instead.

What it is

News Feed Eradicator is a WebExtension written in TypeScript that intercepts the social media feeds you visit and replaces them with a quote. Rather than blocking sites outright, it removes the feed surface itself, leaving the rest of the site usable while the infinite scroll of posts is gone. It is distributed through the official stores for both major browsers and is also buildable from source.

The problem it addresses is habitual, involuntary feed scrolling: the pull of an always-refreshing stream of posts that makes it hard to check a message or look up a page without losing half an hour. It replaces the feed itself as the object you interact with on supported sites, turning the moment of opening a social network into a pause rather than a scroll.

Key capabilities

• Runs on both Chrome and Firefox through the shared webextensions standard, so one codebase targets both browsers.
• Replaces the social media feed with a quote instead of hiding or blurring content.
• Builds with bun and make; make dev produces a build directory and watches for changes, recompiling on save.
• Produces a distributable .zip in the dist folder with a plain make invocation for store submission.
• The build directory can be loaded as an unpacked extension in Chrome or a temporary extension in Firefox for local testing.
• Maintains a public issue tracker for bugs and an Ideas discussion board for feature requests and new site suggestions.
• Published for installation from both the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons.

Who uses it and how

• Individual users installing it from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons who want their feeds replaced with quotes.
• Contributors running make dev locally and reloading the temporary extension in the browser after each change.
• Users who fork the project to build a more complex version, since upstream feature pull requests are generally not accepted.
• People proposing new site support through the Ideas discussion board, upvoting existing suggestions first.
• Maintainers triaging bugs in the issue tracker while keeping the feature set deliberately minimal.

Getting started

Install it directly from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons, or clone the repository, install bun and make, run make dev, and load the resulting build directory as an unpacked or temporary extension.

How it compares

Among similar tools it stands alone in this registry.

When to use it — and when not

It is a good fit if you want a small, low-maintenance extension with no server, database, or storage components to operate; there is no self-hosted backend involved. It is a poor fit if you want a configurable blocking tool or additional features, because the maintainer considers the project "done" and generally accepts pull requests only for bug fixes and documentation, and because 103 open issues remain. Anyone needing a richer feature set should fork the project rather than expect it upstream.

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