How to Block the Facebook Feed on Chrome

Facebook mixes useful things, like a group or an event, with a feed designed to keep you there. Redirect, the Chrome extension, lets you block the site and keep exceptions for the few pages you rely on.

By Monish Meher · Updated September 2026

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3 steps

Block Facebook in under a minute

1
Install Redirect
Add Redirect to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store. Blocking one site is free and needs no account.
2
Add a rule
Open the dashboard, choose whole site and enterfacebook.com
3
Choose how pauses work
Pick pause lengths and a task to finish first. Type a paragraph. It is a small speed bump for a site you open on autopilot.

Why Facebook is hard to put down

Facebook Feed is ordered by prediction. Meta's own explanation of the Facebook Feed AI system describes how it estimates things like how likely you are to comment on a post, share it, or spend more time viewing it, and then puts the posts it expects you to value most at the top. Recommendations from pages and groups you don't follow are mixed in as well. Add Reels, video and Marketplace in the same tab, plus a notification badge for every group you have joined, and a quick look at one event turns into a scroll through things you never went looking for.

A Facebook setup that keeps groups and events#

Add a whole site rule for facebook.com, pointing at your Focus dashboard.
Add exceptions for the groups you need, like facebook.com/groups/your-group, and for facebook.com/events if you use it to make plans.
Choose the typing challenge as the pause task and a 5 minute pause length. Facebook is often opened on autopilot, and copying a paragraph exactly takes long enough for you to notice.
Add a weekday schedule if you only want Facebook gone during work hours.
Add a path rule for facebook.com/marketplace if browsing listings is what eats your time, and a rule for messenger.com if chat is where you drift.

Facebook changes pages without reloading, and Redirect watches those in-app changes. So an allowed group page opens normally, but clicking from it back to the home feed sends you to your goals instead. After a week, check the Focus page for how many times you were redirected. For a site opened on autopilot, that number is often surprising, and it is a good way to decide whether the schedule should cover evenings too.

Tips for Facebook

Make it stick

Add the groups you need as exceptions, like facebook.com/groups/your-group, and keep the feed blocked.
Block facebook.com/watch and facebook.com/reel with path rules if you only want video gone.
A weekday schedule works well if you use Facebook socially in the evenings.

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Sends you to your Focus dashboard

Type a paragraph. It is a small speed bump for a site you open on autopilot.

Questions about blocking Facebook

Does this block Messenger?

A whole site rule for facebook.com blocks facebook.com/messages. messenger.com is a separate domain and stays open unless you add it.

Can I block only the Facebook News Feed and keep everything else?

Yes. Use a homepage-only rule: a pattern rule of *://*.facebook.com/ matches only the home page, where the feed lives, and leaves groups, events and profiles open. Point it at a custom URL, such as the group you use most. Going back to the home page from inside Facebook is caught too.

Will I still see Facebook posts shared on other sites?

Yes. Redirect only acts on pages you open in a tab, so Facebook posts embedded in articles are not affected. Links that open facebook.com in a tab are redirected, unless they match an exception or you take a pause.

Does blocking facebook.com also block Instagram?

No. Instagram is a separate domain, even though both belong to Meta. Add a rule for instagram.com too if that is where you drift, or use path rules to block only Reels and Explore. The Instagram guide on this site covers both setups.

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The full guides behind this setup.

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