Schedules - when "when" matters more than "how much"

Watchlimits, since the version 0.0.21 has a functionality to set schedules with “blocked intervals” when watching is not allowed, regardless of your limits. When to use limits and when to use schedules? You should use schedules when it matters more when you are watching than how much you are watching. You can still combine schedules with limits, however schedules will take precedence and block watching even if no limits are exceeded....

October 27, 2022

watchlimits: side panel

When you watch video online you might want to keep an eye on the time watched and your limits so you don’t get surprised. Watchlimits has a convenient popup that you can pin to your browser toolbar, but clicking it every now and then to see the time watched and limits might be a bit annoying. This is why we added a convenient side panel to watchlimits that will display on the sites where watchlimits is running!...

September 10, 2022

watchlimits: now supported on all major platforms

Watchlimits started with the support for just YouTube and Netflix to offer the best experience. However, those are not the only platforms people watch videos on. Another popular ones are amazon Prime Video, DisneyPlus and Crunchyroll (last one is specifically for Anime). That was a pain for some of watchlimits users as not all of their watching activity was counted or limited. Now all of them are supported! Which means that they will show in watchlimits stats and count against your watchlimits limits....

August 6, 2022

How to get more done by watching more anime

We all know that just working and not having any fun could let us get a lot of done short term, but long term it’s not sustainable. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” We all have those days, when we just can’t seem to start and then we can’t stick with an activity we should be doing. The work seems endless, the time seems to be dragging....

August 5, 2022

Worried about disabling or uninstalling watchlimits? Enforcing installation with Chrome Policies

Are you worried that it’s too easy to just disable or uninstall the watchlimits extension when it blocks you? It’s a fair concern. But you can make uninstalling or disabling very hard or even impossible (for users who are not admins). If you have superuser (or admin) access on your computer, you should be able to use Chrome enterprise features to keep the extension enabled and installed in Chrome all the time....

July 31, 2022