I just installed this. I love the fact that this is a simple extension, but it looks like it's a little TOO SIMPLE. Non-Existent instructions--- what is a block pattern, and how do I enter it? Why is 60 minutes my only option? I can't figure out how to use this extension. Opening up the settings doesn't help at all.

심플해서 좋다.

Doesn't allow you to block X like it says you can. Everything else works fine it seems.

Works best!

It is great to prevent you from getting distracted. Only draw back is it can be annoying when you need to use a site that it has blocked for research or help.

Really good extension! The only problem is that I am still able to access websites by typing them into the search bar and clicking the link on the next page, instead of just typing in the web address.

im trying to go to Roblox and its blocked...

I am trying to get myself off of youtube, and this is helping me very much. Great extention

It's not letting me add anything, it installs, the notification from chrome comes, but does nothing more than that. There's nowhere I can go to add to the blocklist. Could someone help?

i use this solely to tell myself to go to yewtube instead of youtube

This is the only extension that actually works that is free. I have tried others like "StayFree" but it doesn't work that well for online. I very much do enjoy the editable message that you can write for yourself. I found out that for some reason I deleted it and immediately got it back. Don't want to spend any time online without it.

Absolutely LOVE this app - but please bring back the skull when you try to sneak back onto a site that you've blocked. I loved the high drama!

Es una excelente herramienta! cuando se trata de bloquear paginas para evitar distraerte y así la convierte una app de productividad inmensa, aumentando tu concentración y aumentando el rendimiento.

Best such app available. I've been reliant on it for years.

this was a great extension, really helped not getting distracted. But with the recent update, the sites added to be blocked are erased from the block list after some time. I cannot add the sites again and again for it to work.

IDK what they did with the recent update, but it stopped working. Doesn't block sites at all anymore, please to back to the older version or fix it it was perfect before.

best app of this type. chrome better not ban this extension. if they do im 100% switching browsers

the best one i could find on the internet. Dev should add routine blocking time feature

Best extension! It keeps me away from social media that actually eats my productive time. God bless you

Stops you from opening a website like you tell it too, but sometimes it take a while after "distraction free mode" expires for it to give you access again.

best

please fix some bugs. add scroll bar plz

Worked perfectly for a long time, but for the last month or so it's mostly half-working or just not working at all.

Broken and out of date. The UI doesn't even fit in the little pop up window.

It would be good if there was a crawling option, there are many problems if there is not. if it is static, if you input more sites, you will not be able to go down in any way. So the extension is Jose

Seems like it hasn't been updated in a while, so there's some bugs. I can't change the hours slot, and the list of sites you've blocked doesn't let you scroll down to turn on self control, so you have to delete them, turn on self control, then manually add the sites back. It's a life saver for studying, so I put up with these buggy aspects but if I found a similar extension that works better I would go to that.

I love it. Just the tool i needed!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

very good, but please allow to add more time in "Distraction free mode". like 7 days or month... at least more than one days...

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

This is just amazing and funny, every time I click on YouTube that banner pops up and makes me laugh like hell and encourages me to focus on my work, Thank you so so much , a life or should I say GRADE saver. 🙂🥳🥳🎓

Useless. Once you add more than a few sites/words to block the 'active' button is no longer accessible. People have been asking for a scrollbar to be added for over a year. Clearly the developers have left the room. Don't bother.

I really like this extension as it helped me multiple times during my study sessions, but I don't know how to scroll through all blocked sites when I open it in the right corner. Like I have blocked about 8 sites and every time I want to renew the blocking process I have to delete few of them, click the block button and then add them back... it's a waste of time ngl. Did anyone experience the same issues or is it just me? And any chance that some of you know how to solve this problem?

This extension has gotten me through so many semesters in school but now there's a glitch where the only the minutes, not the hours can be edited :(( Please fix this!! I love this extension but I can't use it anymore! I also would really appreciate a scroll bar, as everyone else has said.

overall good extension, but you should be able to stop distraction-free mode short.

pretty effective but a little cluncky

Interferes with google docs, says "Some fonts cannot be loaded." Otherwise Self Control has no timers for websites.

i like it because it allows me to stay focused when working

Does the job Unlike its contemporaries simple and easy to use..does the job well..

Was pretty hopeful that this would be my solution. I'm working on courses in Udemy and I get distracted by Facebook, YouTube and Reddit. I blocked those three and thought I was good until Udemy wouldn't load my videos. After I uninstalled the extension Udemy worked again. Not sure how it got included in the blocked sites but unless there is a way for me to flag it as okay then I guess this extension isn't for me.

This extension is F-ing great. It really has helped me stop, or at least control, my procrastination to a reasonable level. Things I would add would be an option to block "From xx am to xx pm" rather than "block for xx hours xx min," if that makes sense. But other than that, I love this extension very much!