Sift

Take back a LinkedIn worth your time.

Inspiration

LinkedIn is great at surfacing relevant jobs and content. But the experience? Ads everywhere, "Suggested" posts from strangers, reposted job listings, no way to tell if a role sponsors visas without clicking through. Your feed is half noise, and your job search is mostly triage.

Sift exists because the platform is good but the workflow is broken. It cleans up both sides of LinkedIn: your feed and your job search.

Feed Cleanup

Sift automatically hides ads, suggested posts, and recommended content from your LinkedIn feed. One-click Unfollow appears inline on every post — no digging through menus.

Hide Ads: removes Promoted posts automatically
Hide Suggested & Recommended: filters non-connection noise
Hide Strangers: filter posts from non-connections
One-click Unfollow: appears next to "1st" on posts and interaction headers ("XXX likes this")
Mute Keyword: right-click any text on LinkedIn to instantly add it to your keyword filter
Auto-collapse: "You unfollowed X" confirmation cards collapse automatically
Hide Sidebar: remove LinkedIn News and footer clutter
Keyword Filter: define custom keywords to hide matching posts
Live Badge: floating counter shows how many posts have been filtered
Icon Badge: extension icon shows the filtered count at a glance
Hide Polls: filter out LinkedIn polls from your feed
Hide Celebrations: hide job updates, work anniversaries, birthdays, and promotions
Hide Old Posts: hide posts older than 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, or 1 month
Hide Upsells: removes "Try Campaign Manager" and similar promotions
Shift+J: pause/resume all filters instantly

Profile & Network

Sift also cleans up your profile and My Network pages — hiding sidebar clutter, ads, analytics you don't need, and game promotions.

Hide Profile Sidebar: removes ads, "People you may know", and "You might like" panels
Hide Analytics: hides profile views, impressions, and search appearances
Hide Network Ads: removes Promoted ads from My Network
Hide Game Promo: removes LinkedIn game promotions

Job Search Intelligence

On LinkedIn's job search results page, Sift flags suspicious listings so you skip the ones not worth your time.

Reposted Job has been reposted — stale listing

Applied You already applied to this one

No Sponsor Description says visa sponsorship not available

Unpaid Volunteer or unpaid position

Skipped Co. Company on your skip list

Skipped Title Title contains a keyword you're avoiding

See It in Action

Sift badges on LinkedIn job cards — Badges flag issues at a glance

Sift dim mode fading flagged cards — Dim mode fades flagged cards

Get Started

Install from the Chrome Web Store
Visit LinkedIn — your feed is automatically cleaned up
Go to Jobs → Search Results — cards are auto-flagged
Click the Sift icon to adjust settings, view stats, or export data
Hover any post to Unfollow the author with one click

How It Works

Detect

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Badge

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Filter

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Focus

Reads page content directly in the browser. No external servers, no API calls. Everything runs locally. Your preferences are stored via Chrome's local storage.

Privacy

Sift runs entirely in your browser. No data is collected, transmitted, or stored externally. All preferences and stats stay on your device.

Full privacy policy →

Open Source

Sift is open source under the MIT license. You can read every line of code, verify the privacy claims yourself, or contribute improvements.

Chrome Web Store GitHub