# drift-focus

> Quietly protects your attention with gentle friction on trap sites. No lectures. No guilt. Just a little resistance between you and the algorithm.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/drift-focus](https://chrome-stats.com/d/drift-focus)

## Overview

- **ID:** `drift-focus`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Abstractive
- **Category:** privacy-security,social-communication,alerts-updates
- **Version:** 0.2.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-03-20
- **First published:** 2026-03-17
- **Size:** 62 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/drift-focus/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/EscherNadeau/drift](https://github.com/EscherNadeau/drift)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/drift-focus/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/drift-focus/privacy/)

## Description

Drift quietly protects your attention with gentle friction on trap sites — no lectures, no guilt, no hard blocks (unless you want them).

Choose from 5 modes per site: silently slow the page load, ask what you came for, hard block outside allowed hours, redirect to somewhere useful, or close the tab.

Built on behavioral science — even 3 seconds of friction breaks the autopilot loop before the algorithm takes over.

Features:
- Delay Load: page loads silently slower. Pure friction, no UI.
- Ask Menu: "What are you here for?" — type your reason, a draggable reminder stays on the page.
- Schedule system: set allowed hours per site, friction scales up outside them.
- Redirect library: build your own list of go-to destinations, import/export as JSON.
- Stats: see how often Drift has intervened this week.
- Pause for 15 minutes when you genuinely need a site.

Your data never leaves your browser. No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry.

## Rankings

- #141,857 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `webNavigation`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## 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/drift-focus)