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Burn Before Reading — Set the Internet on Fire users statistics
Chrome Web Store · Functionality & UI
Shift-click anything on the internet. Watch it burn. Feel measurably better
Burn Before Reading — Set the Internet on Fire has approximately 114 recorded users on Chrome Web Store, ranking #2376 of 2,495 tracked listings.
Rating: 4.50 / 5 from 8 ratings
About Burn Before Reading — Set the Internet on Fire
Shift-click anything on the internet. Watch it burn. Feel measurably better
The internet is a graveyard of unsolicited opinions, LinkedIn "thought leadership," and headlines written by algorithms for people who click on headlines written by algorithms. Burn Before Reading is your digital flamethrower.
Shift-click anything that offends you. Watch it turn to ash. Read the epitaph. Feel measurably better. Repeat until the internet is tolerable, or until you run out of tabs — whichever comes first.
What it does:
— Throws high-fidelity fire at whatever deserves it. That LinkedIn post. That Reddit thread. That "hey" from Mike at 11pm. — Leaves a custom epitaph tailored to the site and the crime. — Provides the psychological closure that therapy promised but couldn't deliver.
How it works:
- Hit Cmd+B (or Ctrl+B on Windows, you're welcome).
- Shift-click the cringe.
- Watch it burn. Read the words. Exhale. Continue.
No accounts. No tracking. No newsletter. Just fire.
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Covers every Chrome Web Store extension with at least 100 users, found through the store's public sitemap. User counts are read from public listing pages. The 10% most-used extensions are refreshed daily, the next 40% weekly and the next 40% monthly; the least-used 10% are not refreshed. Google displays rounded user counts (and caps the display at 10,000,000+), so small changes may not be visible. Rating counts above 1,000 are rounded (e.g. 1.6K).
Listing: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/burn-before-reading-—-set/ljpennphbhdhaaahgibpnipnfifipkij. First seen Oct 20, 2026; last successful collection Oct 20, 2026. See the methodology.