How to Hide Post Ages and Timestamps on Reddit
Last updated: 2026-07-12
"Posted 4 hours ago." "Updated 23 minutes ago." Reddit’s age stamps quietly rank every thread by freshness in your head, and they’re a big part of why a two-minute check turns into a forty-minute session: there is always something newer to refresh for.
Why hide time on Reddit at all?
Post ages create two loops. The refresh loop — new-enough content might have arrived, better check. And the relevance loop — old threads feel expired even when the answer you need is sitting in a three-year-old comment. Hiding ages breaks both: threads become just content, and the feed stops feeling like a ticker you’re falling behind on. For focused research on Reddit (debugging, reviews, deep dives), that’s the difference between reading and refreshing.
This is the core of the anti-timer method: deep focus is partly defined by losing track of time, and you can’t lose track of something the interface shows you every few seconds.
Option 1 — the manual way (uBlock Origin, permanent)
If you already run uBlock Origin, you can hide Reddit’s time elements permanently with cosmetic filters. Open the uBlock dashboard → My filters, paste the lines below, and save:
reddit.com##time reddit.com##faceplate-timeago
Two caveats. This hides times permanently — including when you actually want them (checking when something was posted). And site markup changes over time, so filters occasionally need updating when Reddit ships a redesign.
Option 2 — the one-click way (session-based)
Now — Timeless Focus is a free Chrome extension built for exactly this, with one key difference from the manual route: it hides time per focus session, not forever. You start a session with a short breathing ritual, every clock and timestamp on the page disappears (on Reddit and any other site you work on), and when you end the session everything comes back — plus you see how long you were actually gone and a presence score computed entirely on your device. Zero network requests, no account.
Reddit’s current UI wraps ages in time and timeago elements; Now’s generic time, [class*="time"] and .timestampContent rules cover current and old-Reddit markup during a session.
Which should you use?
Use uBlock filters if you never want to see Reddit timestamps again and don’t mind maintaining a filter list. Use Now if you want time hidden only while you work, restored when you’re done, and you’d like the session reveal ("47 minutes passed while you were fully present") as feedback. They also combine fine.