Help and guides

Quick start

Three minutes and you are set up.

1. Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store and confirm the installation.
2. Click the extension icon in the toolbar. If you cannot see it, click the puzzle icon and pin it.
3. In the popup, turn on the categories you want blocked. Changes take effect immediately.
4. Click "Advanced settings" to add your own sites, set hours and choose a password.

Tip: after a change, refresh the open tab. There is no need to restart the browser.

Block a specific site

Your own list works alongside the preset categories, and takes any domain.

1. Open the settings and go to the Blocklist tab.
2. Type the base domain, for example example.com, and click "Add".
3. It appears as a chip in the list. Click the × to remove it.

Note: the base domain is enough. All of its subdomains are blocked automatically, so example.com also covers news.example.com.

Block whole categories

Adult content is blocked from the moment you install and has no switch at all. The remaining five categories — social, video, news, shopping and gambling — are yours to turn on and off.

1. In the settings, go to the Categories tab.
2. Turn on the switch next to each category you want blocked.
3. Each card shows a few example domains from the list, then how many more it contains.

Adult content: the first card on the tab is locked. The list holds 30,000 sites and is always enforced — while blocking is paused, and even if such a site is added to the allow list by mistake. The site names are deliberately never shown anywhere in the extension.

If a site is missing: the lists are a starting point. Add anything that is missing in the "Blocklist" tab and it is blocked the same way.

Hide images

An optional mode that blurs every image and video on every site until you click it.

1. In the settings, go to the Images tab and choose Blur images.
2. Blurring applies immediately, everywhere, before an image has a chance to paint.
3. Clicking an image reveals it — only that one, and only until the page reloads.
4. Sites where you need the images can go in the exception list at the bottom of the tab.

Icons stay visible: anything under 64 pixels — logos, avatars, navigation glyphs — is left alone, otherwise sites become unusable.

No content detection: the extension never inspects what an image contains and never sends it anywhere. It blurs everything and leaves the decision to you.

Set blocking hours

Inside a window you define, everything is enforced, even if categories are off the rest of the day.

1. In the settings, go to the Schedule tab and turn on the top switch.
2. Click "Add window", pick the days and a start and end time.
3. Add as many windows as you like: one for work hours, one for evenings, one for Shabbat.

Windows that cross midnight are supported: an end time earlier than the start, such as 22:00 to 07:00, continues into the next day.

Focus timer

For blocking everything distracting temporarily, without changing your permanent settings.

1. Open the popup from the toolbar.
2. Pick a duration: 15, 25, 45, 60 or 120 minutes, or type your own.
3. During the session all distracting categories and your own list are blocked, and the countdown shows in the popup.

The countdown survives closing the browser. If you set a password, ending a session early will ask for it.

YouTube for children: only channels you approve

You can leave YouTube open and block only Shorts, or allow specific channels and nothing else.

1. In the settings, go to the YouTube tab.
2. Pick a mode: no limits, block entirely, no Shorts, or approved channels only.
3. In "approved channels only", add channels by handle, such as @nickjr, or paste the full channel URL.
4. You can also turn on YouTube ad blocking, in any of the modes.

Finding a channel handle: open the channel page on YouTube and copy what follows the @ in the address. The full URL works too.

Password and strict mode

What turns the decision into something you cannot undo in a weak moment.

1. In the settings, go to the Security tab and set a password.
2. From then on, every settings change and every attempt to switch blocking off asks for it.
3. To lock the off switch itself, turn on strict mode.

Before turning strict mode on: it cannot be switched off, and neither can the extension. The only way out is to uninstall and reinstall, which erases every setting.

What happens when a site is blocked

Instead of a browser error you get a quiet page that explains why, without lecturing.

1. The page names what blocked it: a category, your own list, a schedule or a focus session.
2. If a focus session is running, the remaining time is shown.
3. You can go back, or open the settings if the rule itself needs changing.

Blocked by mistake? Add the site to the "Whitelist" tab, or turn off the category that caught it.