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.

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.

Privacy

Draft — needs a legal read before the extension takes money

The facts below were read off the extension's source and are accurate. The parts a lawyer has to settle are marked [TO FILL].

The short version: your rules live in your browser, and there is no account, so nothing identifying you ever reaches us. The extension records nothing at all. This website counts page views, on a server we own, without writing anything to your device.

what is stored, and where

what	where	how long
Groups and rules	your browser	until you delete them
Open windows	your browser	minutes
Theme and language	your browser	until you change them

"Your browser" means chrome.storage, which is part of your browser profile. Groups are held in chrome.storage.local and a compressed copy goes to chrome.storage.sync so your rules follow you to your other computers — that copy travels through your Google account, not through us, and we cannot read it.

An open window records which group it belongs to and which site opened it, because that is what the window is. It is deleted when the window expires, it never leaves the browser, and it is the only place a site you visited is written down at all.

what the extension can see

Few Seconds Focus reads the address of pages you navigate to. It has to: matching a rule means comparing a rule to an address, and deciding to hold a page has to happen before the page loads. Chrome tells you this when you install it, and the permission warning is accurate.

What it does with that address is nothing. The address is compared to your rules in memory and dropped. It is not written to storage, not sent anywhere, not counted, and not aggregated. There is no dashboard of your browsing, because there is no data to build one from — and there are no analytics on the extension or on this website to hold it either.

The thing you can verify, rather than take on trust: open the network tab and use the extension. Nothing leaves.

this website

Page views here are counted with Umami, which we run on our own server in Nuremberg. No Google Analytics, no tag manager, no advertising pixel. The script is served from this domain, so no third party sees your request and none receives the result — the same reason the fonts are local.

Nothing on any page sets a cookie, and nothing is written to your device, which is why there is no banner to click. The counting script reads one value, a umami.disabled key in localStorage, and only to see whether you have turned it off yourself. It never writes it.

What a page view records: the path you opened and its query string, the page that linked you here, the page title, your browser, operating system, device type, screen size and language, and the country your IP maps to. That lookup can also yield a region and a city; ours resolves neither. The IP itself is not stored — it is used for that location lookup and to tell one visit from two, then discarded. There is no column for it, and none for your user-agent string.

None of it follows you to another site or is combined with anything else. The basis is our legitimate interest in knowing which pages get read, Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, and rows older than 12 months are deleted nightly. To switch it off for yourself, run localStorage.setItem('umami.disabled', 1) in this site's developer console.

Two pages are opened by the extension rather than by you: /welcome/ when you install it, and /uninstall/ when you remove it. The uninstall page carries the version number in its URL and asks one optional, anonymous question. Nothing about your browsing is in that URL and nothing identifies you.

the formal part

Controller: [TO FILL — legal entity, address, email]

Legal basis: [TO FILL — legitimate interest for the browser-side data]

Supervisory authority: [TO FILL]

Retention: [TO FILL — the exact periods]

Your rights: [TO FILL — access, rectification, erasure, portability, objection, and the address to use]

Everything above this section is a statement of fact about the software and can be checked against its source. Everything in it is a legal statement and needs a lawyer.

Questions: [email protected]