# Doomscroll Blocker

> limit the youtube videos (and shorts) you can watch in a certain amount of time

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/doomscroll-blocker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/doomscroll-blocker)

## Overview

- **ID:** `doomscroll-blocker`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Tch1b0
- **Category:** appearance,alerts-updates
- **Daily users:** 4
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-08-04
- **First published:** 2025-08-01
- **Size:** 17 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/doomscroll-blocker/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/Tch1b0/doomscroll-blocker](https://github.com/Tch1b0/doomscroll-blocker)

## Description

<strong>Why Doomscroll Blocker?</strong>

When you're on YouTube, you often start to spiral and binge video after video?
Doomscroll Blocker helps you with that. By limiting the amount of videos you can watch withing a time-frame, it is guaranteed that you won't get distracted for too long. (e.g. only watching 2 videos every hour)

## Rankings

- #47,996 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `tabs`

### Host permissions

- `https://www.youtube.com/`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- 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/doomscroll-blocker)