Self Control -- Block sites and stay focused

Sara Wendelken2023年7月28日

★★★★★5

I love it. Just the tool i needed!

Ethan-Scott Hin2023年4月9日

★★★★★5

The "wildcard" blocking is absolutely fantastic - stopping me from even searching for distracting websites!

BEAN!2023年4月7日

★★★★★5

I have been looking for a simple website blocker to stay focused on my tasks and this one definitely takes the cake. Great work.

Divakar Ghosh2023年3月31日

★★★★★4

Extension works great, and serves the purpose. Everything comes down to some will power at the end, but this does a good job. There is one glaring UI flaw - if you add too many websites so that the restricted pattern list exceeds the size of the extension box, you cannot access the button to start the focus period, as there is no scroll functionality to scroll below. Secondly, some flexibility in adjusting the focus period, or patters similar to a Pomodoro timer would be nice.

Jasper Fadden2023年3月18日

★★★★★5

Lifechanging extension. I've previously been using stayfocusd for the past 2 years to stay off distracting websites, but I quickly found a flaw in that extension that allows meesing around with inactive tabs by dragging another one into focus (allows full scrolling of sites like reddit and watching sites like youtube). I tried to shift to freedom, but they don't allow any wildcards or anything. This extension both blocks inactive tabs (making it pretty much impossible to get around), AND allows "wildcard" bloccking of specific prases in urls. I can block specific channels in youtube but not others (ex, allow a youtube playlist but nothing else), ealsily block all reddit mirrors, and all of this pushes me to avoid them cold turkey. It's wonderful, and it's really forced me to actually improve my life over the past week. Tip for people who try disabling or uninstalling the protection: You can make it impossible to install by messing with the registry to think its installed by an administrator (here's a website displaying an example: https://www.alphr.com/prevent-chrome-extensions-removed/). Do the process, restart your computer, and as long as you can't download any browsers (easily done by blocking their download urls!), you are pretty much completely stuck with this extension. The only issue I have is that the "Distraction Free Mode" (which just so you know, can be accessed with a large bock list by typing in random junk in the text field and not getting any results), only can last for a maximum of 24 hours. I'd really like to just prevent changes for more like 50 days, but putting the reset time in the night I don't tend to exploit it. Overall an absolutely amazing extension. With some slightly weird stuff happening to stayfocusd right now, I can't recommend it enough. It lacks a lot of fancy functionality (which I hope might be added in later updates), but it does what it needs to very well.

Reece Harding2022年10月7日

★★★★★5

GREAT - at times it is not possible to start session if too many apps are added to ban list (MacBook Air)

David Becerra2022年8月3日

★★★★★4

I love this extension to block my websites for as long as I want. I'll give it 5 stars if it had some scroll bar to put more than 6 websites there. If you put that many websites, you can't press the button to begin.

Adil Mohammed2022年6月19日

★★★★★4

I cant change the hours slot but apart from that this is exactly what i was searching for

セレスト2022年4月18日

★★★★★4

its really nice but then could you change the quotes to custom ones that we can make ourself or choices to choose? aaaaaaand also make it work in the igconto mode please

OgSwisszyed2022年2月24日

★★★★★2

The UI is really bad like really bad, once i put in few website that i don't want to get distracted it can't be scroll down to change or activate the damn thing, so i don't recomend it at all