Mindful Surfing

Helps you avoid mindlessly surfing the web.
What is Mindful Surfing?
Mindful Surfing is a simple Chrome browser extension that helps you avoid wasting excessive time or retain mindfulness when browsing the web. It features an absolute limit on the duration of your browser session and displays notifications on time intervals to remind you of how much time you have spent online. The extension can be customized and supports a URL white-list option to disable features for specific tabs. It is designed to be annoying to distract you from mindless surfing.

Extension stats

Users: 61 ▼ -4
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2015-09-24)
Creation date: 2015-09-24
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • alarms
  • notifications
  • windows
  • activeTab
  • tabs
  • storage
Size: 59.76K

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Extension summary

A simple Chrome browser extension to help avoid wasting excessive time -- or retain "mindfulness" when browsing the web.

Unlike many other extensions which block time on specific 'distracting' sites, this extension works based on the time the browser has been running.

Two features, each of which can be enabled independently:

  1. An absolute limit on the duration of the browser session, after this time, the browser will be closed. Notifications warn of pending shutdown.
  2. Show a notification on time interval, reminding you how much time you have spent online.

All the time limits can be configured, and a URL white-list is supported - when the active tab matches the white-list, features are disabled.

Notes

If you decide to enable the feature to automatically close the browser, you might wish to enable persistence of the tabs: Settings > On startup > "continue where you left off"

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User reviews

This function is awesome and this is the tool I always want, and I really agree that tools for this idea should be annoying( because our brain needs hint and warnning to these dangers things)
by Tan Tan, 2023-12-13
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Mindful Surfing may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

Mindful Surfing has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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