YouTube Blocker

Notifies you if you watch too many YouTube videos! Helps you close your YouTube tabs and get back to work.

What is YouTube Blocker?

YouTube Blocker is a Chrome extension designed to assist in maintaining productivity by monitoring your YouTube usage. It sends notifications if you've been spending too much time watching YouTube videos, and encourages you to close your tabs and get back to work. The users can customize the kind of notification messages they receive, with options between motivational messages or profane versions. The extension has been improved to identify YouTube video pages more efficiently, offering better user experience.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2024-05-09

By: michael.hsiu.dev

Users: 2,000+

Rating: 3.11 (18)

Version: 1.6 (Last updated: 2018-10-29)

Creation date: 2018-10-29

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
tabs
storage

Size: 16.33K

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Extension summary

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***UPDATE: added fix to identify YouTube video pages more consistently. ***

Notifies you if you watch too many YouTube videos! Tells you to close your YouTube tabs and get back to work. Choose between good ol' motivational messages and slightly stronger profane versions.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works as intended initially
Helpful in blocking Youtube
Can block specific Youtube channels

Cons

Stops working after a day
Possibility of exposing children to swear words
Inability to fully block Youtube with a minimum of 3 videos set per day
Issues with icon not initiating the blocking feature

Most mentioned

Stoppage of blocking after first day
Potential exposure of children to inappropriate language
Limitation in fully blocking Youtube
Problems with the blocking feature

Recent reviews

Works as intended for the first day, but then it stopped. I've tried every variation from "/c/, /user/, to, /channel/". I've also tried finding the channel's original name or one of its alternative URLs. It would also be nice if this worked on playlists too.

Jacob Godspeed, 2022-01-11

It works perfectly fine. Problem is that it has swears, my child reads them and may start using them

Techno Aadvik Official, 2021-06-12

Good idea but very poor execution You cannot block youtube, you have to set minimum 3 videos a day (why!!!) But even bigger problem is when you close youtube tab and open again you can watch 3 videos again. You could do that all day. Pls give him one star as stupidity like this cannot be tolerated. He littler the Internet with that extension.