How to Block the LinkedIn Feed on Chrome

LinkedIn feels like work, which makes its feed easy to justify. Messages and job listings are useful; the feed usually is not. Redirect, the Chrome extension, can block just the feed with a path rule.

By Monish Meher · Updated September 2026

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3 steps

Block LinkedIn 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 specific path and enterlinkedin.com/feed
3
Choose how pauses work
Pick pause lengths and a task to finish first. No task. Keep pauses easy for a site you partly need, and rely on the path rule instead.

Why LinkedIn is hard to put down

The LinkedIn feed is not only your network. Posts marked Suggested come from outside it, and LinkedIn's help page says it picks them for you using your past interactions, including comments, reactions and time spent, along with your profile information and how likely you are to engage. Because the posts are about careers, industry news and advice, scrolling feels productive, which makes ten more minutes easy to justify. Notifications about reactions, profile views and job alerts add fresh reasons to open the tab, and the feed is waiting on the home page every time you do.

A LinkedIn setup that keeps the useful parts#

Add a path rule for linkedin.com/feed and point it at your Focus dashboard.
Add a second path rule for linkedin.com/notifications if the badge keeps pulling you in.
Choose No task for the feed rule if you sometimes need it, or the reason prompt if you want a small check each time.
For deep work blocks, add a whole site rule for linkedin.com with a schedule, for example weekday mornings from 09:00 to 12:00.
After a week, look at your redirect count on the Focus page. It shows how often LinkedIn pulled at you, not just how often you gave in.

Outside any whole site window, messages, your profile, job searches and company pages keep working as usual. The feed is the only part that disappears, and it is the part that rarely helps. If you want to keep up with a few people, visit their profiles directly instead. You will see what they posted without the Suggested posts from everyone else around it. It takes a few extra clicks, and that is exactly why it works.

Tips for LinkedIn

Make it stick

Block linkedin.com/feed only, so messaging, profiles and jobs keep working.
Block the whole site during deep work blocks with a second, scheduled rule.
Watch your stats on the Focus page to see how often the feed pulls you in.

linkedin.com/feedBlocking

Sends you to your Focus dashboard

No task. Keep pauses easy for a site you partly need, and rely on the path rule instead.

Questions about blocking LinkedIn

Will LinkedIn messages still work?

Yes. A path rule for linkedin.com/feed only matches the feed. Messaging and other pages are not affected.

What happens when I click the LinkedIn logo from my messages?

The logo takes you to the feed, so the path rule catches it. LinkedIn changes pages without a full reload in many places, and Redirect watches in-app navigation, so you are sent to your goals instead of the feed even when you never typed the address.

Can I post on LinkedIn without seeing the feed?

Often yes. Your own profile, messaging and job pages stay open with the path rule. If you need the feed to start a post, take a short pause with the No task option or a light task, write your post, and let the pause end on its own. A daily pause limit of one keeps it from becoming a habit.

Can I block LinkedIn notifications too?

Yes. Add a second path rule for linkedin.com/notifications. The notifications page is where reactions and profile views pile up, and it often leads straight back to the feed. Messages and job pages stay open with both rules on.

Go deeper

The full guides behind this setup.

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