Stop doomscrolling.
Get your time back.
Timeback hides short-video shelves and algorithmic feeds. Nothing you did not ask to hide.
Chrome. No account, no sign-in, no server.
The switches below hide parts of the page diagram above, the same way the extension hides them on a real site.
Try it — this is the real thing from the extension.
That is the whole product. What is left is the page you came for.
What it hides
Five sites. Nothing else.
Short video goes on its own. The heavier cuts wait until you ask.
YouTube
Shorts, everywhere they show up — home, search, sidebar, channel pages.
Optional: the recommendations, the end screen, comments.
Reels and Explore in the navigation, and the suggested posts and accounts in the feed.
Reels in the middle of the feed are not reachable yet, so nothing here promises them.
X
The For You tab, Trending, Who to follow and Grok.
Following stays. The tab you did not choose is the one that goes.
The video carousel, the feed sort control and the news module.
Optional: the whole feed, leaving search, messages and your profile intact.
The inline video player.
Optional: the home, popular and all feeds. Your subreddits keep working.
Everywhere else
Nothing. It cannot run outside those five sites.
The list is fixed in the manifest and cannot grow without a new version being reviewed.
What it will never do
Three lines it does not cross.
Not as a policy that could change next quarter. Each of these is the reason the extension still works.
It does not block ads.
That is a fight the platforms fund permanently, and staying out of it is what keeps this extension working.
It does not touch your account.
It never follows, unfollows, likes, posts, votes or comments for you. People have lost their accounts forever over extensions that did.
It does not collect data.
No history, no page content, no identifiers. Nothing leaves your computer — there is no server to send it to.
How it works
Hidden before the first paint.
The difference between not seeing a Short and seeing one for 200 milliseconds.
Hiding after the page renders
The section appears, is seen, and then vanishes. Your eye already did the work the shelf was built for.
Timeback
The rule is in place before the first frame reaches the screen, so the section is never drawn at all.
Honest about limits
When a site changes, something can come back.
Websites change their markup without warning, and when they do, a hidden section can reappear. An automated check runs against the live sites every six hours, so breakage is found in hours instead of weeks. If you spot something first, the support address is the fastest way to get it fixed.
Get your time back.
Nothing blocked, nothing touched, nothing leaving your computer.