Hide the X feed, keep the rest

X has one part you need and one part that eats the afternoon, and they live on the same page. Feed mode hides the For You timeline in Chrome while notifications, DMs, search and profiles keep working, and lets you open the feed in a timed window when you actually mean to browse.

Timeline off, tool on

The reasons to open X are usually specific: a reply came in, someone sent a thread, you want to post. None of them need the timeline. With feed mode on, the For You wall is simply not there, and the specific things stay one click away. You do the thing you came for and leave, because there is nothing else on the table.

What stays reachable

Notifications, messages, search, profiles, individual posts and threads all work untouched. Posting works. Following a link someone sent you works. The only thing missing is the part that was never a destination, just a current.

A timed window when you do want to browse

Browsing on purpose is fine, and Scout says so. The banner where the feed used to be offers a feed window: name it, time it, and the timeline returns in every open X tab for that long. At expiry it hides again in place, no redirect, no scolding. Chosen browsing is downtime. The current was the problem.

Works on LinkedIn too

The same switch tames the LinkedIn feed, which has spent years learning from the platforms it used to mock. Feed hidden, messages and jobs and profiles intact. YouTube gets the fuller treatment with per-surface switches, covered in the YouTube guide.