Basic X

Strip X down to the people you follow. No algorithm, no metrics, no noise.

Basic X - Post like it's 2010 again. Strip X down to the people you follow. No algorithm. No metrics. No noise. Just a chronological feed of people you actually chose to follow. X is designed to keep you scrolling — the For-you feed, like counts, trending topics, "who to follow," Grok pop-ups, profile rabbit-holes. Basic X quietly removes all of it and leaves you with the parts that are actually useful. Every feature below is an individual toggle in the popup, plus a single master on/off switch. Turn off only what you want. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT IT HIDES Feed • Forces the Following tab on the home page and hides the For-you / topic tabs • Hides reposts • Hides promoted posts (ads) Posts • Hides reply, repost, like, and view counts • Hides the bookmark icon Profiles • Strips other people's profiles down to header + pinned post — no endless algorithmic timeline of someone else's brain • Blocks the underlying timeline network requests on stripped profiles, so X can't paginate in the background on a profile you can't even see • Your own profile is untouched • Optional placeholder card in place of the stripped timeline • Hides follower / following counts (including hover cards) Notifications • Redirects /notifications to /notifications/mentions • "Replies only" filter — hides notifications that aren't replies to you • Hides the All / Verified / Mentions tab strip Navigation & chrome • Hides the right sidebar (trends, who-to-follow, premium upsell) • Hides left-nav noise: Explore, Grok, Premium, Creator Studio, Articles, Communities, Jobs • Hides the floating Grok button • Replaces Explore / Search / Trending / Communities / Jobs / Premium routes with a clean placeholder • Optional: keep Bookmarks visible in the left nav ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU KEEP A chronological Following feed. Replies to you. Your own profile. Posts from people you actually chose to follow. That's it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY Basic X runs entirely in your browser. It doesn't send any data anywhere, doesn't use analytics, and doesn't have a server. Your settings sync via Chrome's built-in storage, and your @handle is detected locally so the extension can tell your own profile apart from everyone else's. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ OPEN SOURCE Source code: https://github.com/gabriel-pineda/basic-x Released under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0.