Prevent procrastination by setting a daily time limit for your YouTube usage.
YouTube Time Extension
- Countdown timer: visible in the extension icon and popup window
- Configurable daily time limit (found in the options page)
- Ability to customize your time limit for each day of the week
- Additional options for adjusting when the timer resets each day and whether to pause the timer when YouTube is minimized/out of focus
- Temporary override mode in case you need to watch a video after the time limit has expired (with a configurable override limit)
YouTube Time is open source. You can find the source code here:
https://github.com/ChrisSmith2/YouTube-Time
Changelog:
1.4.5
- Stopped the timer from running on music.youtube.com
1.4.4
- Added option to customize the time limit for each day of the week
1.4.3
- Added support for youtubekids.com (can be toggled in the options)
- Bug fixes and code optimization
1.4.2
- Bug fix
1.4.1
- Added option to limit the number of overrides allowed per day
- Made \"Pause timer when YouTube is minimized/out of focus\" option enabled by default
1.4.0
- Added option to change when the timer resets each day
- Added option to pause the timer when YouTube is minimized/out of focus
- Updated icon
- Bug fixes
1.3.0
- Fixed bug preventing time limit from being changed and made override mode more reliable
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Source Manifest.json
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