Extensions for arstechnica.com

28 browser extensions built for arstechnica.com. Compare features, permissions, and safety across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.

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Free News Reader icon
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Free News Reader

Hit a paywall? Get a free summary of any news article — powered by AI.

4.6(5)
Lifestyle
MirrorSource icon
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MirrorSource

MirrorSource bypasses the noise to triangulate the truth across 187+ global sources in a single click to reveal the whole story.

5.0(3)
Lifestyle
Gist Pro icon
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Gist Pro

AI article & podcast summaries from 150+ paywalled publications — free during beta

5.0(3)
Tools
TIP: Know what's real and who made it icon
Chrome Web StoreChrome Web Store

TIP: Know what's real and who made it

Register content on TIP Protocol. Declare human or AI origin, get a verified CTID. Trust badges everywhere.

5.0(5)
Communication
LinkCrusher icon
Chrome Web StoreChrome Web Store

LinkCrusher

One tab. Every link. Zero chaos. A customizable new-tab dashboard.

5.0(4)
Accessibility
acetab — personal dashboard icon
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acetab — personal dashboard

acetab is a private dashboard for securely managing your links and online resources in a beautiful, customisable new tab interface.

No reviews
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Knoww — Every opinion is a position icon
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Knoww — Every opinion is a position

A prediction market layer for the open internet.

5.0(1)
Social
DevPulse icon
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DevPulse

Replace your new tab with a customizable dashboard of trending repos, dev news and daily reads. All free sources.

No reviews
Developer
Peaceful Reading icon
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Peaceful Reading

distraction-free reader mode for top news sites

No reviews
Lifestyle
feelnewz icon
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feelnewz

Your mood. Your news. Your tab. Check in with how you're feeling, then get the headlines.

5.0(11)
Lifestyle
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Distraction Reroute

Redirect websites to your preferred alternatives

No reviews
Developer
Unhype icon
Chrome Web StoreChrome Web Store

Unhype

Mute the AI hype. Hide posts, threads, and articles about AI across X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Hacker News, and the news.

5.0(4)
Communication
Masthead — A Magazine-Style New Tab icon
Chrome Web StoreChrome Web Store

Masthead — A Magazine-Style New Tab

Replace your new tab page with a personalised magazine — live headlines from publications you choose, alongside your bookmarks.

No reviews
Lifestyle
The Rishi Sunak Context Extension icon
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The Rishi Sunak Context Extension

Level the playing field! Use this handy extension to remind you of some important context when reading anything about Rishi Sunak.

No reviews
Lifestyle
TIP: Know what's real icon
Firefox Add-onsFirefox Add-ons

TIP: Know what's real

Know what's real and who made it. Sign your posts with a verified identity and declare whether they are human, AI-assisted, AI-generated, or mixed. Viewers see a trust badge next to your content. Free, open, and decentralized.

5.0(2)
1 wk
Social & Communication
Dagur icon
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Dagur

The new tab you build yourself — drag and drop todos, languages, markets, calendar, notes and more onto a customizable canvas.

No reviews
Productivity
Debunked icon
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Debunked

AI-powered fact-checking for political news, social media, and videos.

No reviews
Education
My Start Page icon
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My Start Page

Customizable new-tab page with search, bookmarks, weather, news feeds, and to-do. Move and resize widgets, add custom search engines. All data stays on your device. No tracking.wser start page with search, bookmarks, weather, and more.

No reviews
1 wk
Bookmarks
VerbaSave icon
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VerbaSave

Save articles, get AI summaries and remember them with the daily quiz.

No reviews
Productivity
Viesly icon
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Viesly

AI-powered news trust analysis. Structural journalism signals and a 0–100 trust score for supported articles.

No reviews
Lifestyle
Bias Buster icon
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Bias Buster

Read the news without political identity bias — entities replaced with fun themed pseudonyms.

No reviews
Lifestyle
Command Center icon
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Command Center

A calm new tab: world clocks, a dock of links, collapsible work streams, and your wallpaper.

No reviews
Tools
DailyDock icon
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DailyDock

A private new tab dashboard for news, tasks, notes, weather, top sites, and optional Google Calendar or Arcade.

No reviews
Tools
seen it all icon
Firefox Add-onsFirefox Add-ons

seen it all

Dismiss links you already glossed over.

No reviews
Social & Communication
Tab OS icon
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Tab OS

Turn your new tab into a desktop: bookmarks, focus mode, news, trading charts, widgets and more — private, local, 8 languages.

No reviews
Accessibility
Voice Article Navigator icon
Chrome Web StoreChrome Web Store

Voice Article Navigator

Voice-based navigation and text-to-speech for reading news articles.

No reviews
Communication
仿生学阅读扩展 icon
Chrome Web StoreChrome Web Store

仿生学阅读扩展

将网页文本转换为仿生学阅读格式,提高阅读速度

No reviews
Tools
SignalX icon
Chrome Web StoreChrome Web Store

SignalX

Multi-source news aggregation with BYOK AI summaries and source comparison.

No reviews
Lifestyle