Shellfish

Shellfish is an extension for Safari and Chrome that removes all sorts of “share this page” links and buttons. There’s no need to share, be shellfish!

Examples

Shellfish currently blocks sharing buttons from

• AddThis →
• AddToAny →
• Apture →
• Awe.sm →
• BackType →
• ВКонтакте →
• BlogEngage →
• Blogmarks →
• BuzzFeed →
• Delicious →
• Digg →
• DZone →
• Facebook →
• Fark →
• fbShare.me →
• Flattr →
• FriendFeed →
• Google +1 →
• Google Buzz →
• Gree →
• JapanSoc →
• LinkedIn →
• LinksAlpha →
• Meebo →
• Microsoft Live →
• Mixi →
• Mixx →
• Mister Wong →
• Мой Мир →
• Myspace →
• Netvibes →
• NewsTrust →
• Newsvine →
• Ping.fm →
• Pinterest →
• Reddit →
• SexyBookmarks →
• Shareaholic →
• ShareThis →
• Slashdot →
• Spiceworks →
• Surphace →
• Technorati →
• Topsy →
• Tweetboard →
• TweetMeme →
• TweetUp →
• Twitter →
• TwitterCounter →
• Wibiya →
• Wikio →
• Yahoo Buzz →

and many others, as well as other custom buttons seen around the web.

To see a sample of the types of buttons Shellfish hides, see our example page.

If you only want to block Facebook buttons, we recommend you use the Facebook Blocker (Safari, Chrome, and Firefox) or Defacer (Safari) extension. Both are fine pieces of work.

Please note: we made the decision to block buttons or icons like “post this to Twitter”, but we do not block “follow us on Twitter or Facebook” type buttons.

Follow us on Twitter to stay updated, we are @shellfish_app.

Installation

Install for Safari

Install for Chrome

Install for Opera version 11 only, pending approval from Opera

Coming…

We plan on releasing new versions with more features over time, make sure you are checking for updates.

• More sharing buttons blocked? – definitely
• Open-source? – definitely
• Firefox extension? – maybe
• Custom blocking? – maybe

Issues?

As you might imagine, there are lots of different varieties of these sharing buttons, so it’s hard to catch them all. If we’ve missed one, or if you have other problems, let us know about it here or over on Twitter (@shellfish_app).

Releases

• July 17 2012 version 1.0.5
  allow localhost sites to load blocked scripts/iframes (CSS is still applied), removed some blocking code to make sure we are displaying the “follow us” and RSS buttons on Penny Arcade
• July 10 2012 version 1.0.4
  blocking new Google+ buttons, Pinterest buttons, and something called “Love Bucks” (as well some new misc sharing stuff seen around the web)
• May 29 2012 version 1.0.3
  (hopefully) fixed an issue with blocking too much of Klout’s site, added blocking for Spiceworks
• Jul 1 2011 version 1.0.2
  blocked the sharing graphics on the new TechCrunch site, plus a few other icons as well
• Jul 3 2011 version 1.0.1
  fixed a few items that broke in the last release, blocked some new items, including LinksAlpha
• Jun 30 2011 version 1.0
  completely rewritten blocking engine. We now prevent sharing scripts and Iframes from loading, so pages will load quicker for you. There are sharing buttons and images that we don't have the opportunity to actually block, so we are still hiding those of course,.
  
  Update on the Opera extension:
  the extension was submitted to Opera for approval, but it was rejected. We will hopefully be revisiting Opera support soon.
• Oct 30 2010 version 0.9.7
  introducing a brand new Opera extension! Only the Opera 11 alpha build supports extensions right now, so our Opera support is still beta, but it works fairly well. We also fixed several buttons we had missed (from user-submitted suggestions), and added a few other rarely used sharing services.
• Sep 25 2010 version 0.9.6
  we’ve gone international, we’re now blocking sharing buttons for Japanese and Russian sites (thanks to swdyh for the CSS for Mixi and Gree and to Den S. for help with ВКонтакте). We also added support for Ping.fm, Blogmarks, FriendFeed, Mister Wong, Netvibes, Wikio, Microsoft Live, Newsvine, Slashdot, Technorati, Fark, Tweetboard, Apture, Мой Мир, and JapanSoc
• Sep 11 2010 version 0.9.5
  now blocking buttons from Yahoo Buzz, Myspace, NewsTrust, Mixx, BackType, and others
• Aug 27 2010 version 0.9
  more sharing buttons blocked (are you sensing a trend here?), fixed a bug where statuses were being blocked on twitter.com
• Aug 21 2010 version 0.8
  released a Chrome extension, still more sharing buttons blocked
• Aug 17 2010 version 0.7
  lots more sharing buttons blocked
• Aug 10 2010 version 0.6
  initial release of Safari extension