Custom redirect: one simple trick to make productivity extensions more effective

Many of the productivity extensions will block or limit your time on “undesired” productivity wasting sites by redirecting you away from them. But redirect you to what instead? Usually it’s an extension page. On that page it will explain to you, hey “you got blocked”. Sometimes it will urge you to donate/upgrade the extension and usually it will also provide an easy way to edit your settings. Which is a trap....

September 10, 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

Ultimate Guide: How to limit time on YouTube

So you think you spend too much time on YouTube? You are not the only one! But you are in the right place, this guide will present: best tools to block YouTube on mobile and desktop best tools to limit time on YouTube on mobile and on desktop best tools to make YouTube less attractive describe various approaches & alternative techniques This article is targeted to adults who struggle with their own watching habits....

July 30, 2022

Find out how much time you spent watching netflix

Are you curious how much time are you spending on netflix? Netflix is a great source of entertainment, but if you are not careful it can become a real time sink. Are you watching too much? Do you suffer from a netflix addiction? How much would be reasonable? It’s hard to decide if you don’t know how much time you are spending there now. There is a problem though, Netflix doesn’t provide stats on watch time....

July 4, 2022

How to find time spent on YouTube

Have you ever wondered how much time you spend watching YouTube on a given week or month? If you are not careful it could easily add up to hundreds of hours per year. What are people’s averages? “In March 2021, users worldwide spent an average of 1777 seconds (29 minutes and 37 seconds) per user per visit on YouTube.com“ (source). It seems to be about 30 minutes per single visit. What if you visit YouTube multiple times a day on your computer and on your phone?...

June 29, 2022