A simple extension to keep you focused online

Latest Version

Version
2.1.2
Update
May 15, 2017
Size
914KiB
Developer
Category
Users
20,000+
Rating
4.03043 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
WebRequest
WebRequestBlocking

Storage
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Self Control Extension

V2 updates!
- Custom time interval for distraction free mode
- Ability to turn off 'always on' mode
- Improved UI

-- Self Control --
A simple app to keep you focused online by blocking sites that you spend way too much time on.

Note that the app works by blocking patterns within the full url.
For example if you were to block the pattern \"book\"
the sites www.facebook.com and books.google.com would both be blocked.

Distraction free mode prevents you from removing block patterns from the app for a fixed amount of time. By default this is one hour, but it can be changed in settings. Note that you cannot set a time shorter than 20 min :p

By default the extension is always running. To change this so that the extension only runs when distraction free mode is enabled, toggle 'Always on' in settings to Off.
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Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

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Daniel Lemon (ID: 00000085df062cc8) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 09/26/2023 Broken and out of date. The UI doesn't even fit in the little pop up window.

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Ashraful Rahman Sakil (ID: 0000000c009c8448) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 09/25/2023 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

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Emily (ID: 000000ba9cd44f56) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 09/19/2023 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.

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Sara Wendelken (ID: 000000060def1446) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 07/28/2023 I love it. Just the tool i needed!

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no name (ID: 00000008568c75ff) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 06/02/2023 very good, but please allow to add more time in "Distraction free mode". like 7 days or month... at least more than one days...