Disable, Block Social media Widgets on Websites with Widget Block

Blog widgets such as Facebook fan page widget, digg widget, twitter widget and other widgets for commenting system such as disqus, gravatar and Google friend connect, analytics, social sharing widgets from addthis, sharethis will add some power to the blogs and makes user interaction more powerful, but if you’re a hater of all these, then you can simply block all these kind of social media widgets with one simple extension.

Widget Block for Google chrome allows you to block all the social media, web 2.0 widgets in one click. Third party widgets from sites like Facebook, twitter, Google Buzz, Disqus, etc. can slow down page load times when browsing on other sites that include them. WidgetBlock disables a number of widely installed 3rd party widgets so that your pages load faster. It includes options to choose the Widgets you’d like to disable.

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WidgetBlock Removes Social Networking Widgets from Web Pages Around the Net [Downloads]

Chrome: We've shown you how to remove annoying Facebook clutter from web pages, but a new extension called WidgetBlock takes it a step further by removing widgets from most social networking sites, speeding up page loading times and de-cluttering the web.

While many sites (like us) allow you to hide the giant Facebook widgets if you'd rather not load them on every article, many sites wallpaper their pages with unremovable Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and Google widgets that are not only an eyesore, but slow down page loading times. Chrome extension WidgetBlock lets block hide all those widgets before the page loads, similar to how AdBlock blocks advertisements:

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