Use social media from your computer, not your phone
Mert Duzgun, updated 18 September 2026
The profile takes the apps off the iPhone. This is the other half: a browser extension that removes the feeds from the four sites that carry them, and leaves the rest of each site alone.
Why the computer
The phone is a slot machine in my pocket. It is always there, the feed is vertical, and one thumb runs it, so a minute of waiting turns into forty with no decision anywhere in the middle.
A computer is a desk. I sit down at it, I do the thing I came for, and then I get up and leave. Same accounts, same people, same posts, but the room has a door.
Once the apps are blocked on the iPhone, the computer is where I still post, message, search and watch the channels I chose. The extension cuts the feeds out of the four sites so the computer stays a tool rather than the phone with a bigger screen. Those are the same hours a day the bill on the home page bills you for over the next twenty years.
Add it from the Chrome Web Store
One click: add attention awareness to your browser. The aa mark lands in the toolbar; pin it and the switches are one click away.
It works in Chrome, Brave, Edge and any other Chromium browser.
It collects nothing: no account, no analytics, no server, and nothing leaves the machine. What it stores and what it can see is written out on the extension privacy page.
What goes and what stays
Site by site, taken from the rule files, which are plain CSS with a header that says what each one hides and what it leaves alone.
X
Gone
- The For you tab on the home timeline
- Trends in the sidebar
- The today's news box in the sidebar
Stays
- The Following timeline
- Notifications and messages
- Search, and the Explore tab it lives behind
- Profiles, yours and everyone else's
- Posting, images included
YouTube
Gone
- Every Shorts surface: the shelves on home, subscriptions, search and watch
- The Shorts entry in both sidebars, and the Shorts tab on a channel
- The /shorts/ player itself, which gets a short note in its place
- The Playables shelf
Stays
- The home feed
- Subscriptions
- Search
- The watch page and channels
Gone
- Reels, and the Reels entry in the nav
- The Explore grid and its tabs
- The suggested for you blocks, in the sidebar and in the feed
- The For you tab on the home feed
Stays
- The feed
- Stories
- Messages
- Search
- Your profile
TikTok
Gone
- All of it. TikTok is a feed with a site drawn around it, so the page goes and a short note takes its place
Stays
- Nothing
Switches, and your own CSS
- One switch per site in the popup. Off means the stylesheet is gone from that site, not that something is hiding behind a setting.
- One master switch over the four turns all of them off at once.
- Custom CSS, on the options page, is the Stylus-shaped part: a domain, a block of CSS, applied on top of the built-in rules. Hide whatever bothers you on any other site.
- A domain covers its subdomains, so reddit.com covers old.reddit.com.
- A site outside the four asks the browser for access to that one site as you add the rule, once, and for nothing else.
An example
Say a news site keeps a trending sidebar next to the article. Open the browser's inspector, read the class off the element, and give the options page those two things.
Domain
news.example.com
CSS
.trending-sidebar {
display: none;
}