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LinkedIn Feed Blocker

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LinkedIn Feed Blocker
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LinkedIn Feed Blocker A minimal Chrome extension that disables LinkedIn's home feed while keeping the rest of LinkedIn usable. What it does Hides the entire main feed on /feed Blocks infinite-scroll feed pagination Leaves profiles, jobs, search, messaging, notifications, and other LinkedIn features alone Why? I like LinkedIn for finding jobs and chatting with recruiters.

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Original publisherGitHub
Canonical URLhttps://github.com/andrewpollack/linkedin-feed-blocker
Publication timeSat, 08 Aug 2026 16:49:07 +0000
Retrieval time2026-08-08T17:30:41.917Z
Last seen2026-08-08T17:30:41.917Z
Headline sourcePublisher (no WeSearch rewrite)
Excerpt sourcepublisher body
Excerpt methodFirst ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited.
SummaryWeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer)
Summary source textcontentText
Citation coverageSummary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL.
ClustertR4e5QEsbEXa · 1 stories
Cluster logicGrouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison.
Ranking reasonStory pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking.
Publisher visitYes — open original
Substitutes article?No — link-out required for full text

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Publisher-declared
No publisher-confirmed rights record for this source yet.
Machine-readable
No source-specific machine-readable restriction detected beyond the public feed.
WeSearch interpretation
WeSearch declared handling (basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed). This is WeSearch policy, not a legal grant on the publisher's behalf.
Unknown
Retrieval and training permissions are not asserted unless the publisher confirms them.

WeSearch handling by dimension

Indexing May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? Allowed
Snippet May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? Allowed
AI summary May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? Limited
Retrieval / RAG May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? Not asserted
Model training May the content be used to train AI models? Not asserted
Commercial reuse May the content be reused commercially? Not permitted

Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.

Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand

LinkedIn Feed Blocker A minimal Chrome extension that disables LinkedIn's home feed while keeping the rest of LinkedIn usable. What it does Hides the entire main feed on /feed Blocks infinite-scroll feed pagination Leaves profiles, jobs, search, messaging, notifications, and other LinkedIn features alone Why? I like LinkedIn for finding jobs and chatting with recruiters. I do not like being greeted by the wild-west social feed. After having "experienced" the Before image below, I decided to do something about it. Hence, this extension. Before / After Before After Install Download or clone this repository somewhere permanent on your computer. Open Chrome and go to: chrome://extensions Enable Developer mode in the top-right corner. Click Load unpacked.

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