This chrome extension will become an assistant in your pursuit to control the time we spend every day in infamous time-sinks: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn and Netflix.
We all know how distracting and engrossing these sites can be, but blocking them totally is also not a feasible option since they do provide some really useful content.
We have identified those parts in each of these websites that grab our attention and serve us unlimited content all day. This extension enables you to hide each of these parts selectively, and even block access to any of these websites.
Your settings are synced over the google account so that you can use this extension in multiple computers with the same settings.
Note: No history is accessed by the extension and WE DO NOT send/store any browsing related information.
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v.1.7 Release Notes:
☆ Hide/Blur YouTube Thumbnails
v.1.6 Release Notes:
☆ Hide YouTube Breaking News
v.1.3 Release Notes:
☆ Hide Facebook Marketplace
☆ LinkedIn News section
v.1.2.6 Release Notes:
☆ Bug fix: Skip redirecting YouTube music domain
v.1.2.5 Release Notes:
☆ Bug fix: Facebook likes and comments
v.1.2.4 Release Notes:
☆ Hide Facebook Watch Feed
v.1.2.3 Release Notes:
☆ Time based pause feature
☆ Improved User Interface
☆ Supports New Facebook layout hiding
☆ Hide LinkedIn Messaging box
v.1.2.2 Release Notes:
☆ Bug fix: YouTube redesigned their homepage. Hide Recommendation feed filter now works properly
v.1.2.1 Release Notes:
☆ Bug fix: YouTube recommendation feed filter now works properly
☆ Bug fix: Twitter redesign. Hide Trends filter now works for Explore link
v.1.2.0 Release Notes:
☆ 5 minute peek – Disable all filters for 5 minutes. Turns back on automatically
☆ Supports mobile version of default sites. Use Yandex or Kiwi browsers in phone
☆ Added support for LinkedIn. Blocks site and hides feed
☆ Option to redirect YouTube’s homepage to subscription feed
☆ Hide Reddit’s front page feed and comments in posts (old.reddit.com only)
☆ Hide Twitter timeline
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All features (each of the below can be controlled individually):
● Facebook
🡒 Block Facebook (blocks access to Facebook)
🡒 Hide Feed (hides the main feed)
🡒 Hide Likes and Comments (hides this section from ALL posts)
🡒 Hide Chat Sidebar (hides the contact sidebar on the right pane)
● YouTube
🡒 Block YouTube (blocks access to YouTube)
🡒 Hide Recommendations (hides the main feed)
🡒 Force redirect to my subscriptions (redirect home page to subscriptions feed)
🡒 Hide Sidebar (hides left sidebar)
🡒 Hide Comments
🡒 Hide Up Next Suggestions (will not suggest what to play next)
● Twitter
🡒 Block Twitter (blocks access to Twitter)
🡒 Hide Trends
🡒 Hide Who to follow
🡒 Hide all media (hides all images and videos)
● Reddit
🡒 Block Reddit (blocks access to Reddit)
🡒 Block r/popular (blocks access and hides links to r/popular)
🡒 Block r/all (blocks access and hides links to r/all)
● Netflix
🡒 Block Netflix (blocks access to Netflix)
🡒 Hide Recommendations (hides everything except “Continue Watching” and “My List”‘)
🡒 Hide Continue Watching (hides “Continue Watching” queue section)
🡒 Hide My List (hides “My List” section)
● General Settings
🡒 Pause all filters (disables your filters temporarily, while keeping all your settings intact)
🡒 Pause for 5 minutes (pauses all filters for 5 minutes and resume back automatically)
🡒 Block list (Block custom websites of your own choice)
🡒 Custom URL (the site where you want to be redirected to if you open the blocked site. Currently defaulted to google)
🡒 Hide tooltips
All feedback is welcome.
Resources we love:
● https://www.reddit.com/r/nosurf/
● Deep Work by Cal Newport
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Extension developed by: @tweetjai
Logo designed by: vaibhavdewangan17.wixsite.com/mysite
love this app. would be willing to pay for a safari and firefox equivalent (but hopefully for cheap because I’m a grad student)!
Great ext, definitely use it
This extension is great.
What a lifesaver! Easy to use and customize, like setting a specific time window to pause the extension. For example, I set the extension to pause at 4:00-4:30pm to give myself a break to browse YouTube, and then it automatically resumes blocking stuff after that. I also appreciate the “Pause for 5 minutes” switch that you can toggle.
This extension has caused a drastic improvement in cutting down my mindless/bored socia media scrolling and losing time to falling down YouTube “rabbit holes”. Cannot recommend enough!
Loving the Youtube Subscription page redirect! Excellent extension so far! Lots of options!
Works perfectly on Chrome but is there a Firefox equivalent?
Isn’t working on linkedin or reddit
I am dying to see this application or another be made for Instagram. I use Instagram for business purposes and i constantly find myself being distracted when doing outreach to potential clients. my efficiency and productivity are greatly reduced as a result. having the blur function that has been recently introduced for youtube on the Instagram platform would be truly game changing this extension is the best their is for productivity.
Please make this extension compatible with Instagram this is the only thing holding it back from perfection
IIIITT WOORKKEEDDDDD
Broke my feed
fantastic, does exactly what i wanted it to do! it removes the “up next” and homepage thumbnails so it’s a blank space
plus the controls are simple and visually appealing 🙂
thank you – everything I don’t want to see: blocked. My mind can be in peace now.
Fantastica estensione
Funziona perfettamente
Impedisce di aprire anche le chat di facebook
Con questa estensione riesco a togliere tutte le distrazioni sia da facebook sia da youtube, ottimo!
LOVE the YouTube thumbnail blur option. So grateful that social media becomes “check notifications and messages” instead of being bombarded with mindless time-sink activities.
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Really customizable and has a ton of features! 5 Stars!
Love this extension! First review I have made for an extension. I do not enjoy getting sucked in by social media, but I have to use it for work. This extension is my favorite thing on the internet right now!
One note: If you could make the red dot that appears on the home button of LinkedIn go away, you would be my best friend! I’ve spent about 2 hours trying to figure out some way to turn that sucker off!
This is an incredible idea that works perfectly. Thank you for the life-changing extension.
Excellent!
Muy buena, me ha ayudado un montón y es fácil de manejar
Used Distractionfree YT up to now. This one is much better and supports even more websites!
Is there any way for me to financially support this work?
This + Adblock (which you can use to block CSS classes as well as ads) are an absolute dream team. I can’t quit social media because I need it for work, and it was an absolute nightmare for me. Now I can do what I need to do and get out without getting sucked into all the noise.
The easy disabling options, and in particular the “pause for 5 minutes” feature are THE BEST. It’s not an exaggeration to say that this extension gives me control of my internet usage that I hadn’t had for 15+ years before this.
Looking forward to the developer adding support for new reddit when they can.
This is what I’ve been finding ever since I got addicted on the internet! it would be great if you can add custom websites to block or make an app version 10/10 would recommend to people who has been addicted or Procratinating.
Good extension! Resonates with the concept of deep work by Cal Newport. It would be great if you could add more sites like Quora, Instagram etc.
Life saver! Tahnk you!