# Control - Website Blocker

> Control your surfing habits.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/control-surf](https://chrome-stats.com/d/control-surf)

## Overview

- **ID:** `control-surf`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** guytepper
- **Category:** privacy-security,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 13
- **Weekly downloads:** 4
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.3.1
- **Last updated:** 2024-08-27
- **First published:** 2022-06-04
- **Size:** 429 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/control-surf/)

## Description

Control - Website Blocker is a Firefox add-on that acts as a gatekeeper, allowing access to addictive websites only after answering why you want to visit them. It helps control your surfing habits by implementing a different approach to website blocking.

## Rankings

- #29,698 — Overall
- #73 — website blocker
- #116 — website
- #165 — control
- #208 — self control

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `alarms`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `webNavigation`
- `*://*/*`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/control-surf)