How to block the Reddit home feed
Reddit is two different products. The subreddit you came for is a forum. The front page is a slot machine built from a thousand forums. The goal is to keep the first and never see the second. Two manual routes, then the one-click version.
Route 1 · No tools at all · Discipline required
Bookmark subreddits, never the front page
Every subreddit has a stable address. Bookmark reddit.com/r/whatever for the handful you actually read, and enter Reddit only through those. Searching from your browser's address bar with the subreddit name gets you there too.
The catch: the logo, the mobile redirect, and half of Reddit's own links land on the home feed, and one landing is all the feed needs. r/popular sits one click away the entire time. Like every discipline route, it works until it doesn't.
Route 2 · uBlock Origin · Kills more than you want
Hide the feed element with uBlock Origin
The feed on Reddit's current design is a single element, shreddit-feed. In uBlock Origin's My filters:
www.reddit.com##shreddit-feedThe catch is bigger here than on other sites: Reddit renders subreddit listings with the same shreddit-feed element it uses on the front page. uBlock's element filters cannot tell the home page from r/programming, so this rule blanks every subreddit too, which defeats the point. There is no clean way to express "hide this element, but only at the root URL" in a cosmetic filter.
The one-click version
Quiet Feeds
freeQuiet Feeds is a free Chrome extension whose rules carry URL scopes, which is exactly the thing cosmetic filters are missing. It hides shreddit-feed on the home page and on r/popular, and nowhere else, so every subreddit you visit directly works as normal. The home and popular feeds each have their own toggle. When Reddit changes its markup, the fix arrives through a public rules file within a day.
It collects nothing. No analytics, no accounts, and the whole privacy policy fits on one page.
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