Doomscrolling through war, violence, and disaster coverage takes a toll — even when you're just trying to stay informed. Newshade blurs distressing headlines right on the news sites you already use. One click reveals any story when you're ready. You decide, not the algorithm.
For Chrome · free · ad-free · no tracking
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Three steps, no black box – you stay in control of what's filtered and what isn't.
Choose which news sites Newshade should run on – Google News and Yahoo News by default, add more yourself.
Articles about war, violence, disasters or crises are blurred – not deleted, not censored.
One click reveals the article if you want to read it. If you deliberately visit another site, it stays untouched anyway.
Newshade is a free Chrome extension against news fatigue: it blurs distressing articles about war, violence, disasters and crises while keeping you fully in control – no all-or-nothing, finely adjustable instead.
Interface and detection work in German, English, French, Spanish and Italian.
Via slider, from one match up to stricter thresholds.
Solution- and progress-oriented articles are highlighted instead of hidden.
Optionally have borderline cases reviewed further – with Anthropic, OpenAI, or your own compatible endpoint.
Ready-made combinations in one click – or import your own word lists as TXT/CSV.
Save your configuration as a file, transfer it to another device, or share it with others.
Settings automatically follow you across all devices where you're signed into Chrome.
Everything runs locally in your browser. No analytics, no ad IDs, no server of our own.
So international news sites are reliably covered too – not just German-language ones.
Newshade doesn't make money from your data – there simply is no infrastructure for that.
Newshade is free and set up in seconds.