Link Hints and News Feed Eradicator serve different purposes for improving productivity. Link Hints enhances your browsing experience by allowing you to navigate using keyboard shortcuts, which can be especially useful if you prefer or need to avoid using a mouse or touchpad. On the other hand, News Feed Eradicator helps you avoid distractions by removing feeds from social media sites, allowing you to use these platforms more purposefully. The better choice depends on whether you need more efficient navigation (Link Hints) or need to reduce social media distractions (News Feed Eradicator).

News Feed Eradicator is more beneficial for reducing distractions as it removes feeds from various social media platforms, helping you avoid mindless scrolling and focus on your tasks. Link Hints, while improving navigation efficiency, does not directly address reducing distractions in the same way.

Link Hints offers more customization options compared to News Feed Eradicator. It allows you to customize keyboard shortcuts and hints for clicking links and other clickable elements. News Feed Eradicator primarily focuses on blocking feeds from specific social media sites and offers less customization in terms of functionality.

Link Hints is a browser extension that allows users to click on links and other clickable elements using their keyboard. It is particularly useful for those who have a bad touchpad, trouble using a mouse, or love using keyboard shortcuts.

To use Link Hints, press Alt+J (Ctrl+J on macOS) to make little yellow boxes with letters, called hints, appear next to links and other clickable elements. Then type the letters to click the link. Alternatively, you can hold Shift and type a bit of the link text. The keyboard shortcuts and hints are fully customizable.

Some keyboard shortcuts for Link Hints include: Alt+J to click links and buttons, Alt+K to open a link in a new tab, and Alt+L to open a link in a new tab and switch to it. Additional shortcuts include Alt+Shift+J to click many things, Alt+Shift+K to open many links, and Alt+Shift+L to select an element.

Currently, there are no user-generated pros and cons for Link Hints.

News Feed Eradicator is a browser extension designed to help users reduce mindless scrolling by removing feeds from social media websites. It allows users to block feeds from platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Hacker News, and GitHub.

The main features of News Feed Eradicator include the ability to selectively remove feeds from popular social media websites like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Hacker News, and GitHub. This helps users reduce time spent on mindless scrolling and use social media more purposefully.

News Feed Eradicator helps users by eliminating the most addictive parts of social media websites—the feeds. By blocking these feeds, the extension encourages more intentional use of social media, reducing time spent on mindless scrolling and potentially improving productivity.

News Feed Eradicator supports removing feeds from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Hacker News, and GitHub. Users can choose which feeds to block and which to allow.

Yes, News Feed Eradicator allows users to pick which feeds to block and which to allow, providing flexibility in how they use the extension to manage their social media consumption.