Take Back Facebook™ is a Google Chrome extension that tries to undo all the little visual and UI tricks that Facebook™ plays on you. Facebook™ has become a huge time waste for many people because they employ a variety of addictive tricks to keep you coming back. This extension tries to mitigate the addictive aspects to allow you to have the control of when to use Facebook™ - or not to.
Take Back Facebook™...
- makes notifications gray
- red notifications create a sense of urgency that encourage interaction even when you might have come to Facebook™ for some other reason
- prevents number of unread notifications in tab name
- seeing number of unread notifications while in another tab trying to focus is very distracting
- prevents tab name from changing when a user messages you
- similarily distracting
- gets rid of pop-ups on the bottom left and on the top right
- popups are an unecessary call to action to try and get you to engage more - the notification bar takes care of informing you that something has changed
- makes the whole title bar gray
- Facebook™'s blue is a very carefully handpicked shade, designed to engage users further
- gets rid of trending topics
- gets rid of game ads
- and more!