movingname / unclutter

A browser extension to unclutter web articles.

Unclutter Browser Extension

A browser extension to automatically remove distractions from web articles. Contributions are welcome!

Features

• Rewrites a website's CSS to use simplified responsive styles even at larger viewports.
• Removes distracting headers, sidebars, cookie banners, or promotions through global and site-specific style overrides.
• Allows to theme article text (changing font size, page width, background color) by detecting DOM text content.
• Automatically actives on visited articles (with both an allowlist and blocklist) by injecting a minimal boot script into browser tabs.
• More to come :)

Installation

Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store or Mozilla Add-on Store.

Development

To build the extension yourself, run:

1. yarn install && yarn build
2. yarn package
3. Find the bundled extension code in /web-ext-artifacts. _manifest-v2 is for Firefox, _manifest-v3 for Chromium browsers.

This was tested using node v17.6.0 and yarn 1.22.17 on Mac, but should work the same in other environments. See source/README.me for some documentation on the code structure.

For hot reloading during development, run yarn watch and npx web-ext run in parallel.

License

See LICENSE for details.