Facebook without the feed. YouTube without Shorts.

Take Back Focus is a browser extension that hides the parts made to keep you scrolling. Everything else still works.

Coming soon for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. Free.

Feed hidden

Take Back Focus is keeping your home feed out of the way.

They live in the toolbar menu. Flip one and the page changes straight away, no reload.

Facebook feed: The home feed is replaced by a calm card. Notifications, groups, events, Marketplace and search are untouched. Show feed anyway brings the feed back until you close the tab.
Facebook Reels: The Reels tab and the Reels in your feed are hidden. A Reels page shows a card instead of a video.
Facebook Stories: The Stories tray is hidden, and a Stories page shows a card instead.
Top bar on Messages: Facebook's top bar is removed from facebook.com/messages, so your chats fill the window.
YouTube Shorts: Shorts shelves and the Shorts entry in YouTube's menu are hidden. A link to a Short opens it as a normal video.
YouTube home recommendations: YouTube's home page shows a note instead of recommendations. Search, subscriptions and the videos you open work as before.

No account, no analytics, no tracking. Take Back Focus runs only on facebook.com and youtube.com and makes no network requests of its own.

For Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. Free. Made by Nuhvel Solutions in Estonia.

Take Back Focus is not affiliated with Meta Platforms, Inc. or Google LLC.