Burn the feed,
not your time.
Feeds are built to never end. Burnfeed ends them, and leaves a quote where the feed was. Search, messages and posting stay.
A Safari extension for Mac.
Works on
The feed never ends.
Your day does.
Nobody decides to spend two hours scrolling. It goes a few minutes at a time, every day, on a page with no bottom. Added up, the numbers are not small.
- 2 h 21 min A day on social media, for the typical internet user worldwide. DataReportal, Digital 2025 (GWI data)
- 35% Of the 6 h 38 min we spend online each day. More than a third. DataReportal, Digital 2025 (GWI data)
- 6.6× The exercise the WHO asks for. 987 minutes of social media a week, against at least 150 minutes of moving. WHO, Physical activity fact sheet, 2024
- 5.24 billion Social media user identities. That is 63.9% of everyone on Earth. DataReportal, Digital 2025
Do the maths.
Start with the global average, then be honest. Screen Time in System Settings knows.
Starts at 141, the global daily average for social media.
Counted to age 80. An assumption, not a forecast.
858
hours a year
35.7
days a year, around the clock
4.9
years of the rest of your life
From now to 80, 24 hours a day. Count only waking hours (16 a day) and it is 7.3 years, or 15% of every day you are awake.
Every year, that is enough time for
- 149 novels At 90,000 words each, read at 260 words a minute: about 5.8 hours a book. Reading speed: Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language, 2019
- 1.1× Spanish From zero to professional working proficiency takes 600–750 class hours, plus homework. Counted at the high end. US Foreign Service Institute
- 21.4 work weeks At 40 hours a week. Months of a full-time job, unpaid. Just division
What it does. Briefly.
- Six sites, your call. Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, LinkedIn and Reddit. Switch each site, or parts of one, on or off.
- A quote instead. Where the feed was. Use the built-in quotes or add your own, and pick how a burned feed looks.
- Breaks that end. Show the feed for 5 minutes, or pause everything for 15 minutes or an hour. Then it burns again on its own.
- Private. Your browsing never leaves your Mac. Burnfeed collects nothing. Privacy policy
Burn the feed,
not your time.
For Safari on Mac.