minimal

A minimal, less attention grabbing, internet experience.

Minimal - A Less Attention-Grabbing Internet Experience

"Minimal" is a browser add-on for Firefox designed to declutter your internet experience and put control back in user's hands. It advocates for user choices, easy content search, and promotes usage based on a platform's service quality. It's an open-source project, completely transparent about its functioning, does not collect any data and encourages user scrutiny through source code visibility. It's intended to deliver a streamlined, focused and less distracting internet browsing experience.
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Add-on stats

By: AUPYA
Users: 716
-17
Rating: 4.67
(55)
Version: 1.0.2 (Last updated: 2023-03-21)
Creation date: 2018-11-03
Weekly download count: 19
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • <all_urls>
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
  • storage
  • tabs
Size: 59.46K
URLs: Website

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# 3,756 ▼ 32
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Add-on summary

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Minimal is a browser extension to experience a minimal, less attention grabbing internet experience. Internet should be a tool, not a trap.

Minimal is driven by core values:

  • The user must actively make choices by themselves.
  • A user should easily find the content they are searching for on a page, not the content a platform wants them to see.
  • A service provider can convince the user to use their platform, but only through their services' inner quality.
This extension is being developed for the greater good, its an open source project, you can check the code and contribute here: https://gitlab.com/aupya/minimal.

Some details to know:

  • All product and company names are trademarks™ or registered® trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

  • This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

  • Minimal is fully transparent about what it does once installed, being open source and well documented. Minimal has no effect on the website themselves, minimal is an add-on that allows you to customize your experience while browsing on the internet.

  • Minimal does not collect any data.

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User reviews

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Pros
  • Creates moments for reflection on internet habits
  • Great for preventing distractions
  • Works flawlessly on supported websites
Cons
  • No possibility to hide icon from urlbar
  • Lack of a toggle to easily turn the extension on and off
  • Conflicts with other add-ons
Most mentioned
  • Need for a toggle to easily disable or enable
  • Request for ability to hide toolbar icon
  • Compatibility issues with other add-ons/extensions
  • Desire for a more extensive list of supported websites
User reviews
by Ju, 2024-02-23
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

minimal requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

minimal has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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