Distraction Shield – Hide Feeds & Shorts by A2Z tools
Hide feeds, short videos and recommendations on popular video and social sites, site by site, with a focus schedule.
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About this extension
Use the useful parts of websites without the addictive feeds.
Most social sites are useful for a few specific things - a video you searched for, a message, a job listing - and then pull you into an endless feed. Distraction Shield keeps the useful parts and hides the feeds that are designed to keep you scrolling.
Each site has its own switches with sensible defaults: Shorts and home recommendations off on YouTube, Reels and Explore off on Instagram, the main feed off on LinkedIn, and so on. Search, subscriptions, messages and profiles keep working.
When you do want the feed, "Show once" reveals it for the page you are on, and you can pause the shield or limit it to focus hours. Everything happens on your device with a stylesheet - nothing about your activity is collected.
KEY FEATURES
• Hide YouTube Shorts, home recommendations, sidebar suggestions, comments and end screens, and switch off autoplay
• Hide Instagram Reels and Explore while keeping messages, search and profiles
• Hide the Facebook News Feed, Reels and Stories
• Hide the X home timeline, trends and "Who to follow"
• Hide the LinkedIn feed and News while keeping Jobs and Messages
• Hide Reddit Home/Popular/All feeds and trending searches while subreddits keep working
• Every switch is per site; a "Show once" button reveals a hidden feed for the current page
• Pause for 15 minutes, an hour or the rest of the day, or limit the shield to focus hours
• Works instantly on page load, including in-app navigation, with no flashes of the feed
PRIVACY
Distraction Shield works only on six social sites, hides parts of them with a stylesheet on your device and never reads, collects or sends anything.
GOOD TO KNOW
• Social sites change their page structure often. Rules use several selectors each, but a redesign can make a switch stop working until the extension is updated.
• Only the web versions of the six sites are supported, not their mobile apps.
• YouTube autoplay is switched off by flipping YouTube's own autoplay toggle, so YouTube remembers it the same way it would if you clicked it.
Distraction Shield is a free extension by A2Z.Tools, the makers of 1,000+ free online tools at https://a2z.tools.
Support: https://a2z.tools/contact-us
Most social sites are useful for a few specific things - a video you searched for, a message, a job listing - and then pull you into an endless feed. Distraction Shield keeps the useful parts and hides the feeds that are designed to keep you scrolling.
Each site has its own switches with sensible defaults: Shorts and home recommendations off on YouTube, Reels and Explore off on Instagram, the main feed off on LinkedIn, and so on. Search, subscriptions, messages and profiles keep working.
When you do want the feed, "Show once" reveals it for the page you are on, and you can pause the shield or limit it to focus hours. Everything happens on your device with a stylesheet - nothing about your activity is collected.
KEY FEATURES
• Hide YouTube Shorts, home recommendations, sidebar suggestions, comments and end screens, and switch off autoplay
• Hide Instagram Reels and Explore while keeping messages, search and profiles
• Hide the Facebook News Feed, Reels and Stories
• Hide the X home timeline, trends and "Who to follow"
• Hide the LinkedIn feed and News while keeping Jobs and Messages
• Hide Reddit Home/Popular/All feeds and trending searches while subreddits keep working
• Every switch is per site; a "Show once" button reveals a hidden feed for the current page
• Pause for 15 minutes, an hour or the rest of the day, or limit the shield to focus hours
• Works instantly on page load, including in-app navigation, with no flashes of the feed
PRIVACY
Distraction Shield works only on six social sites, hides parts of them with a stylesheet on your device and never reads, collects or sends anything.
GOOD TO KNOW
• Social sites change their page structure often. Rules use several selectors each, but a redesign can make a switch stop working until the extension is updated.
• Only the web versions of the six sites are supported, not their mobile apps.
• YouTube autoplay is switched off by flipping YouTube's own autoplay toggle, so YouTube remembers it the same way it would if you clicked it.
Distraction Shield is a free extension by A2Z.Tools, the makers of 1,000+ free online tools at https://a2z.tools.
Support: https://a2z.tools/contact-us
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Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Access your data for sites in the youtube.com domain
- Access your data for sites in the instagram.com domain
- Access your data for sites in the facebook.com domain
- Access your data for sites in the x.com domain
- Access your data for sites in the twitter.com domain
- Access your data for sites in the linkedin.com domain
- Access your data for sites in the reddit.com domain
- Access your data for x.com
- Access your data for twitter.com
Data collection:
- The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
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- Version
- 1.0.1
- Size
- 58.83 KB
- Last updated
- 6 days ago (Oct 25, 2026)
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- Mozilla Public License 2.0
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