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# Text Free Browsing
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/text-free-browsing/
- Published: 2014-02-26T13:25:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:00:03.000Z
- Description: Artists collaborate on Chrome plug in that wipes all the text from the internet
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25, #author-change-2025-05-28

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fc/71/fc716215-5729-441a-bd07-e2b50bc413b1/content/images/S3/protein/9874/328d928b-32fa-41b1-a465-6c29fe6640fd.png)

In this day and age you would be hard pushed to describe any place with a Wi-Fi connection as a ghost town. We are overloaded with the words of total strangers at any given minute. As physical interaction between people takes on a lesser significance and the comfort of strangers and their opinions can be accessed at no end. But what if we logged on and there was nobody to greet us online?   
  
Artists [Rafaël Rozendaal](http://www.newrafael.com/?ref=protein.xyz) and [Jonas Lund](http://jonaslund.biz/?ref=protein.xyz), who experiment with media and technology, and have collaborated on a Chrome plug-in that explores this idea by removing all the text form the internet. [Text Free Browsing](http://www.newrafael.com/text-free-browsing/?ref=protein.xyz) creates an eerie platform that allows the user to appreciate the design and layout of familiar pages such as Gmail, Twitter and Facebook without the intrusion of text.  
  
Although largely tongue-in-cheek, this project could be seen as a response to the potentially overwhelming amount of information we are now barraged with on a daily basis.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fc/71/fc716215-5729-441a-bd07-e2b50bc413b1/content/images/S3/protein/9874/2908b979-21d8-4042-9078-c821fdb44dcf.png)