Sift by zzalyf

Hide the parts of social media designed to keep you scrolling: algorithmic feeds, Shorts and Reels, recommendations, trending panels. Keep search, subscriptions and the people you follow. Block a site outright or set a daily time limit.

Available on Firefox for Android™

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About this extension

Social sites are built to keep you scrolling. Sift removes the parts that do the pulling and leaves the parts you came for.

Hide the algorithmic "For You" feed but keep the people you follow. Hide Shorts, Reels and TikToks. Hide recommendations, trending panels and "who to follow" — while search keeps working.

Control each site on its own

Turn Sift off on one site without touching the others
Pause for 10 minutes when you need to
Block a site outright, behind a screen with a 15-minute escape
Set a daily time limit, from 5 minutes to 2 hours
Force dark mode on sites that don't offer one

On YouTube you can also

Remove thumbnails, leaving titles and channel names
Hide comments
Hide community posts, live streams, Mixes and Playables in the feed
Hide the recommendations sidebar and end-screen cards

Supported sites

YouTube and YouTube Music, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit (new and old), LinkedIn, Facebook, Bluesky, Pinterest, Substack, Twitch.

Mobile layouts included, and Sift runs on Firefox for Android.

Your settings stay yours

Sift collects nothing. No analytics, no tracking, no remote code. Settings live in your browser and follow your Firefox account if you use Sync.

Every option is a toggle: start with the defaults and turn back on whatever you miss.

"Boredom is the birthplace of ideas."

Open source (AGPL-3.0): github.com/zzalyf/sift
Based on Feedless by ZMensRain.

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Permissions and data

Required permissions:

Access browser tabs
Access your data for sites in the facebook.com domain
Access your data for sites in the instagram.com domain
Access your data for sites in the linkedin.com domain
Access your data for sites in the pinterest.com domain
Access your data for sites in the tiktok.com domain
Access your data for sites in the twitter.com domain
Access your data for sites in the x.com domain
Access your data for bsky.app
Access your data for old.reddit.com
Access your data for www.reddit.com
Access your data for substack.com
Access your data for m.twitch.tv
Access your data for www.twitch.tv
Access your data for www.youtube.com
Access your data for m.youtube.com
Access your data for music.youtube.com

Data collection:

The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.