blocked in work time
Instagram, TikTok & etc.
Because nobody has ever finished a nine-second video and thought, right, back to the spreadsheet.
- when
- 09:00–18:00, Mon–Fri
- hold
- 20s
a browser extension
Do you actually want to open reddit.com?
Press and hold this button for five seconds. Releasing early resets it.
window open
5:00
You deserved your five minutes of
Add to Chrome — free
when the clock runs out, the button comes back
free · no account · nothing you visit is recorded
Add to Chrome
the chrome web store listing isn't live yet — this button starts working the day it is
how it works
Use your AI agent to create the settings.
you, to any AI
“I lose evenings to Reddit, news and YouTube. I still want r/cooking and my favourite YouTube music mix, no limits.”
your new group
Evenings
- sites
- reddit.com, youtube.com, 4 news sites
- allow
-
reddit.com/r/cooking
youtube.com/playlist?list=… - when
- after 21:00, daily
- hold
- 20s · window 5m
- line
- “It will still be there in the morning.”
Copy the prompt from the extension, paste it into the AI you already have open, paste the answer back. Then navigate as usual, and hold — or don't.
no key · no account · nothing sent · read the prompt
the problem
It isn't willpower. It's the absence of a pause.
You didn't decide to open it. Your hand did.
So this doesn't try to be unbreakable. It targets the autopilot instead of the will, and it never tells you no.
Without
- 0.0s
- Your attention slips
- 0.4s
- The feed is already there
- Doomscrolling
- The afternoon is gone
With Few Seconds Focus
- 0.0s
- Your attention slips
- 20.0s
- You hold a button down — or just leave
- 5:00
- Enjoy it — then leave, after five minutes
what you'll see
One screen, one button, one line worth reading.
A Stoic line, or one you wrote yourself. Then a countdown in the corner, so the window closing is never a surprise.
reddit.com
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
Seneca
14
Hold to visit
what it is not
Four things it deliberately refuses to be.
- Not parental control
- No PIN, no admin, no enforcement outside this browser. It's for blocking yourself.
- Not a time tracker
- It never records where you spent your day. There is no dashboard, because there is no data.
- Not unbreakable
- A determined user disables the extension in three clicks. We know. That isn't the mechanism.
- Not a punishment
- Nothing scolds you, nothing shames you. It assumes you're an adult, because you are.
so, concretely
Your sites. Your hours. Your exceptions.
blocked after nine
News
Because the 11pm scroll through the headlines was never going to help you sleep.
- when
- after 21:00, daily
- hold
- 20s
blocked, with one exception
Reddit, X
Because you went for one recipe and came out with an opinion about a stranger's divorce. r/cooking still opens straight away.
- when
- all day
- hold
- 20s
blocked, with one exception
YouTube
Because you opened it for one tutorial and it is now explaining the Byzantine navy. The lo-fi mix never asks.
- when
- all day
- hold
- 20s
a longer hold
Amazon and all shopping sites
A longer hold, because this is the one that actually leaves you poorer.
- when
- all day
- hold
- 45s
other hard blockers
A wall.
Disabled once, and then it is gone.
few seconds focus
A door.
You open it every time. It is still there in a month.
free
The pause is free. Forever.
Unlimited groups, unlimited sites, every preset bundle and the full hold and window ranges. No account, and nothing to cancel.
questions
Can't I just disable it?
You can, in three clicks, and we say so on the box. But that's an argument for friction, not against it. A hard block gives you an opponent: it says no, you say watch me, and the effort that could have gone into the question goes into beating the software instead — which you win, once, and then it's off for good. That's how people uninstall a blocker in week two. Friction never refuses you, so there's nothing to beat. Holding the button is always easier than removing the extension, so almost nobody removes it, and the holding is the part that works.
What do you collect?
Your rules, in your browser. No history, no visited URLs, no analytics. There is no account, so nothing identifying you reaches us.
Does it work on other browsers?
Chrome and Edge today. Firefox is next; blocking is per-browser by design, so nothing follows you to another one.
Twenty seconds sounds like nothing.
The ring on this page runs for five seconds — a quarter of the real thing — and even that is longer than it reads. Twenty seconds is long enough for the question do I actually want this to arrive, which is the entire mechanism.