Disenshittify

Platforms get worse on purpose. The feed you asked for arrives wrapped in things you did not: videos nobody you follow posted, posts surfaced because a stranger liked them, a box offering to sell you the version without the boxes.

Disenshittify is a Firefox add-on that hides them. It is published on Mozilla’s add-on site, so installing it is one button.

One tab per platform, one switch per thing, and a number saying how many of that thing were hidden on this page.

Three platforms so far. On YouTube it takes out the home feed, Shorts, recommendations on the sidebar and over the end of a video, comments, ads and the Explore section. On X, the ads, the Premium upsells, the sidebar widgets, the chat, the verified badges, and it opens on Following rather than the algorithmic timeline. On LinkedIn, the upsells, the puzzles, the “add to your feed” suggestions, and the posts the feed shows you because somebody reacted to them rather than because they were written for you.

Nothing is all or nothing. Every item is its own switch, there is a master one for the whole extension, and after each page it reports what it removed, as a toast and as a number on the toolbar icon.

The only permission it asks for is storage, to remember which switches you set.