In its current state this extension is only really usable by someone who wants to edit code to make it do what they want. In particular, there are no settings, even the list of sites to block is hardcoded.
This is a simple browser extension which redirects away from distracting sites. It prompts you to provide an unblock justification and time interval. This way, you can briefly unblock as long as you have a constructive intention.
While blocking is paused, your intention is displayed at the bottom of the page:
The inspiration for this was using a site blocker and finding that I would disable it to do something constructive, but then neglect to re-enable it.
It is also extremely efficient, adding nearly 0 overhead to normal page loads, due to the clever approach in cirocosta's very simple site blocker, which this is forked from. See his post about the topic.
- Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/mgsloan/unblock-with-intention
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Add your distraction sites to the url patterns in
background.jsand inmanifest.json. -
Load the extension
- Open chrome
- Go to chrome://extensions
- Enable the
Developer modetoggle in the upper right corner - Press
load unpacked extensionand then select this repo
Consider making your own redirect page, and using that instead. The
page this extension uses the current astronomy picture of the
day as a background, and
displays info about the blocked url. If you press the u key, then
the unblock dialog will appear.