Read Focus Chrome extension icon

Read Focus

📦 v1.3
💾 237KiB
📅 2025-10-14
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Overview

📘 Overview

Read Focus helps you stay fully present when reading online.
In today’s information-overloaded web, every click, ad, and sidebar is designed to steal your attention. Read Focus lets you block out those distractions — so you can focus, comprehend, and actually finish what you started reading.

✨ Key Features
• Focus Mode – Cleans visual clutter such as floating toolbars, pop-ups, and sidebars.
• Stay on Page – Dims or hides “related articles” and “next video” links that lead you away.
• Lightweight & Fast – Runs efficiently without affecting your browsing speed.
• Privacy-Friendly – No data collection, no analytics, no tracking.
• One-Click Toggle – Turn Read Focus on or off anytime in the Chrome toolbar.

🧭 Why Use It
• Regain control over your attention.
• Build a deep reading habit in an age of distraction.
• Improve comprehension and retention by reading without interruptions.
• Create a calm, minimal reading environment right inside your browser.

🧩 How It Works

Once installed, click the Read Focus icon in your Chrome toolbar.
When activated:
• The extension analyzes the current web page.
• It automatically hides or softens distracting elements.
• You can toggle it off anytime to restore the original layout.

No user data is ever stored or transmitted.
All processing happens locally in your browser.

🔒 Privacy Policy

Read Focus does not collect, store, or share any personal data.
All actions are performed locally within the browser environment.
You can view the complete Privacy Policy here:
👉 https://github.com/mingliang-zhang/read-focus/privacy

❤️ A Note from the Creator

“In an era where attention is constantly monetized, being able to read a single page without distraction is an act of quiet resistance. Read Focus is built to help you reclaim that focus.”
— StephNinja

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Productivity/tools productivity/tools

Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

🔐 Security Analysis

This extension hasn't been security-scanned yet.

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