Chrome-Stats extensionCompare Chrome extensions: StayFocusd - Block Distracting Websites vs Self Control
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StayFocusd - Block Distracting Websites
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Self Control
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| User count | 500,000+ | 30,000+ |
| Average rating | 4.47 | 4.03 |
| Rating count | 7,485 | 226 |
| Last updated | 2024-04-07 | 2017-05-16 |
| Size | 8.52M | 935.94K |
| Version | 2.1.16 | 2.1.2 |
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| Boost your productivity by limiting the amount of time you spend on time-wasting websites. | A simple extension to keep you focused online |
| Full summary | |
You sit down at the computer, and you swear you'll be productive. Next thing you know, it's twelve hours later. You've checked your email, updated your Facebook status, blown through 200 pages of Reddit, read every article in your Twitter feed, looked up your favorite band on Wikipedia, vanity googled yourself, cyber-stalked your ex, browsed through all your high-school crushes' Instagram feeds, and lost a week's pay playing online poker. What you haven't done is WORK. StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day. It's highly configurable, allowing you to block or allow entire sites, specific subdomains, specific paths, specific pages, even specific in-page content (videos, images, forms, etc). Problems? Questions? Suggestions? Effusive praise? Email [email protected] PRIVACY NOTICE: When you install StayFocusd, it will ask you to grant a number of permissions, including “Read and change all your data on the websites you visit.” This permission is required in order for StayFocusd to run on any site which you may visit—without this permission, StayFocusd would not be able to block websites. While this permission technically grants StayFocusd the ability to read and change data, we will never collect personal data from the web page content that you are browsing. This extension is maintained by Sensor Tower. |
V2 updates!
-- Self Control -- A simple app to keep you focused online by blocking sites that you spend way too much time on. Note that the app works by blocking patterns within the full url. For example if you were to block the pattern "book" the sites www.facebook.com and books.google.com would both be blocked. Distraction free mode prevents you from removing block patterns from the app for a fixed amount of time. By default this is one hour, but it can be changed in settings. Note that you cannot set a time shorter than 20 min :p By default the extension is always running. To change this so that the extension only runs when distraction free mode is enabled, toggle 'Always on' in settings to Off. |