Control Panel for Twitter
Shares rank 48 of 70 browser extensions by recommenders
Recommended for hiding most unwanted content on Twitter and undoing X-era changes, such as restoring the reverse-chronological Following timeline.
Recommended for hiding most unwanted content on Twitter and undoing X-era changes, such as restoring the reverse-chronological Following timeline.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Hides most unwanted content
“can hide most things you'd want to hide on Twitter”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts” “uBlock or Control Panel for Twitter.”
Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices” Easy to install, works well
“easy to install on PC, and you can also have it for your phone if you use twitter via the Firefox mobile browser”
Comment from 13 Apr 2026 in “Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI” “seems to work pretty well”
Comment from 9 Jan 2026 in “Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux” Makes Twitter more tolerable
“has a bunch of features which undo some of the X-era changes”
Comment from 7 Jan 2026 in “Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com” “one of the few ways to make Twitter more tolerable to use”
Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell” Restores older timeline and dark mode
“By default, your Home timeline will be the reverse-chronological "Following" timeline, which will only contain tweets and quote tweets from the people you follow.”
Comment from 16 Oct 2026 in “Neural networks are clean” “I added a "Dark mode theme" option to Control Panel for Twitter to bring it back”
Comment from 18 Feb 2026 in “X's new pure black dark mode hurts readability compared to the old dim theme”
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| Claude in Chrome | 53 | 42 | 56% | 9 | — | — |
| Control Panel for TwitterThis page | 7 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“By default, your Home timeline will be the reverse-chronological "Following" timeline, which will only contain tweets and quote tweets from the people you follow.”
“uBlock or Control Panel for Twitter.”
“easy to install on PC, and you can also have it for your phone if you use twitter via the Firefox mobile browser”
“I added a "Dark mode theme" option to Control Panel for Twitter to bring it back”
“can hide most things you'd want to hide on Twitter”
“seems to work pretty well”
“has a bunch of features which undo some of the X-era changes”
“one of the few ways to make Twitter more tolerable to use”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.