In a similar vein, I've been using News Feed Eradicator:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
So many users tell me they avoided deleting Facebook thanks to News Feed Eradicator, so killing it would really be shooting themselves in the foot for a short term gain, but it would not surprise me one bit.