Reviews of LeechBlock NG

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List of user reviews and ratings for LeechBlock NG

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4.83 (Rating count: 2,023)

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Review summary

Users consistently praise LeechBlock NG for its reliable blocking of distracting sites, customization options, and life-changing impact on reducing doomscrolling and online addictions. Reviewers highlight its effectiveness, balance of simplicity with power, and features that prevent bypass. The tone is largely positive and emphasizes time saved and healthier browsing habits, with only rare mentions of minor inconveniences.

Pros

Effectively blocks distracting websites and helps curb doomscrolling and internet addiction.
Highly customizable with many options to tailor blocking.
Works as intended and remains lightweight with minimal bloat.
Described as life-changing and life-saving for breaking addictive browsing habits.
Tab-closure feature stops blocked pages from loading, reducing temptation.

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 5.00

All time rating average: 4.83

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3% (36)

Date	Author	Comment
2026-08-21	Fi*****	Thank you for keeping this free! A lifesaver.
Thank you for keeping this free! A lifesaver.
2026-08-20	EC*****	Finally a good extension. Highly recommend everyone to use this instead of other alternatives, including ethical and functionality ones. This extension better supports wildcards and regular expressions. Not only that but it has a decent documentation about that and includes multiple features like lockdown, different block sets, easy "message from yourself" without custom code, timer and statistics. That was just amazing because I was able to block many domains I wished with more advanced filters. I believe the only things I missed was search engine results blocks, which would be quite hard to implement. That would be very useful because I usually find domains I would not like to visit due to leech and psychological damage by searching. The extension does what it promises, though, and I can't ask for more. ________________________________ My ethical point of view below (which is not about how the extensions work or their features): I don't recommend other popular alternatives like uBlocklist and Block Site because of another reason: They are HEAVILY vibe coded and this is the kind of shit that ruined Software Development for many people, me included. AI-"assisted" bullshit is horrendous and just destroyed the whole career. Not only that, but between every single LLM, the developers used Claude, by Anthropic; which is the most privacy invasive popular company I've seen thus far, Google included. That is also more concerning than other models because of how integrated it is into deepfake generation, slop coding and AI-""art"". Antropo- from greek means human and -pic is a suffix for "in such manner". That being said, the fact a company promoting a product that replaces jobs, hobbies and makes us lose our humanity is named "human-like", is just absolutely absurd.
Finally a good extension. Highly recommend everyone to use this instead of other alternatives, including ethical and functionality ones. This extension better supports wildcards and regular expressions. Not only that but it has a decent documentation about that and includes multiple features like lockdown, different block sets, easy "message from yourself" without custom code, timer and statistics. That was just amazing because I was able to block many domains I wished with more advanced filters. I believe the only things I missed was search engine results blocks, which would be quite hard to implement. That would be very useful because I usually find domains I would not like to visit due to leech and psychological damage by searching. The extension does what it promises, though, and I can't ask for more. ________________________________ My ethical point of view below (which is not about how the extensions work or their features): I don't recommend other popular alternatives like uBlocklist and Block Site because of another reason: They are HEAVILY vibe coded and this is the kind of shit that ruined Software Development for many people, me included. AI-"assisted" bullshit is horrendous and just destroyed the whole career. Not only that, but between every single LLM, the developers used Claude, by Anthropic; which is the most privacy invasive popular company I've seen thus far, Google included. That is also more concerning than other models because of how integrated it is into deepfake generation, slop coding and AI-""art"". Antropo- from greek means human and -pic is a suffix for "in such manner". That being said, the fact a company promoting a product that replaces jobs, hobbies and makes us lose our humanity is named "human-like", is just absolutely absurd.
2026-08-19	Sa*****	It works exactly as u would expect.
It works exactly as u would expect.
2026-08-19	Fi*****

2026-08-16	Fi*****	Нормально, корисно.
Нормально, корисно.
2026-08-13	Ir*****	super effective and customizable, A+
super effective and customizable, A+
2026-08-13	Fi*****	the absolute best! Works for everything, the configuration is a little bit confusing so I don't have time limits or the thing where you get a certain amount of unblocked time every week which would be cool but that's because im too lazy to configure it and because honestly just turning it on and off alone is such a game changer I haven't really needed to sort the rest out. Thank you so much!!!!!
the absolute best! Works for everything, the configuration is a little bit confusing so I don't have time limits or the thing where you get a certain amount of unblocked time every week which would be cool but that's because im too lazy to configure it and because honestly just turning it on and off alone is such a game changer I haven't really needed to sort the rest out. Thank you so much!!!!!
2026-08-10	mi*****

2026-08-10	Ve*****	Super useful.. Saving my hours from distraction. Thanks for keeping this for free!
Super useful.. Saving my hours from distraction. Thanks for keeping this for free!
2026-08-08	su*****	Very robust and effective extension! My only issue with it is that blocking a site overnight is harder than it needs to be, since the block time range only works if the second number is larger than the first. That means setting 23:00-5:00 doesn't work, and you have to do both 23:00-24:00 and 00:00-5:00 instead. It works fine, but it sometimes says that the page will be unblocked at midnight even though it'll be immediately blocked right after. Thank you for making this add-on!
Very robust and effective extension! My only issue with it is that blocking a site overnight is harder than it needs to be, since the block time range only works if the second number is larger than the first. That means setting 23:00-5:00 doesn't work, and you have to do both 23:00-24:00 and 00:00-5:00 instead. It works fine, but it sometimes says that the page will be unblocked at midnight even though it'll be immediately blocked right after. Thank you for making this add-on!