How to browse X without the For You tab
For You is the algorithmic feed. Following is the people you chose. X lets you use the second one, and then quietly steers you back to the first. Two manual routes work, with limits. The one-click version is at the end.
Route 1 · Built in · Keeps drifting back
Switch to the Following tab and stay there
At the top of your home timeline, click Following. X remembers the choice for a while, and this alone is a big improvement.
The catch: it does not stick. After periods of inactivity, app updates, or for no visible reason at all, the home timeline reopens on For You, and every fresh click costs a glance at the algorithmic feed, which is the glance it is engineered around. The trends column and the who-to-follow modules also stay on screen regardless of which tab you pick.
Route 2 · uBlock Origin · Precise, until the site changes
Hide the sidebar and the For You tab with filters
In uBlock Origin's dashboard, under My filters, paste:
x.com##[data-testid="sidebarColumn"] section
x.com##[data-testid="sidebarColumn"] aside[aria-label="Who to follow"]That removes trends and the suggestion modules while leaving search in place. Hiding the For You tab itself is harder to do safely, because the same tab-list markup appears on profiles and other pages, and a blanket rule hides first tabs everywhere. This one only misbehaves outside the home timeline:
x.com##[data-testid="primaryColumn"] [role="tablist"] > div:first-childThe catch: uBlock filters cannot scope by page, so you accept the side effects, and X changes its data-testid attributes often enough that these break without warning. A filter also cannot click Following for you, so the drift-back problem from route 1 remains.
The one-click version
Quiet Feeds
freeQuiet Feeds is a free Chrome extension that hides the For You tab on the home timeline only, removes trends and suggestions, and selects Following for you so the timeline never opens on the algorithm. Profiles, messages, lists, and search are untouched, and each surface has its own toggle. When X 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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