RickStop: Anti-Doomscroll Lock

RickStop helps you take back your attention from infinite feeds. It’s a privacy-first Chrome extension that detects doomscrolling patterns using scroll input only (timing + intensity) and interrupts “scroll trance” with a short hard lock (default: 10 minutes). No accounts, no tracking, no analytics, and no servers. How it works (no content reading) RickStop does not read posts, messages, or page content. It only monitors scroll behavior to recognize repetitive, infinite-feed scrolling. When your selected sensitivity threshold is reached, the current site is locked with a full-screen overlay until the timer ends. Key features • Hard Lock overlay (10 minutes by default, configurable). No in-page “unlock” button by design. • Optional Soft Nudges: a quick warning before a lock so you can self-correct. • Sensitivity levels (1–20) to tune for mouse wheel, trackpad, or touchscreen. • Slow-scroll protection (low levels) that gradually accumulates “scroll fatigue” to catch endless slow scrolling without punishing normal reading. • Warmup gate (high levels) to reduce false positives by requiring sustained patterns. • Local-only stats (estimated minutes saved, streak). Stored only on your device. Where it runs RickStop can run on popular infinite-scroll social and video sites (for example, YouTube and Instagram on the web). You can also control where it runs with a whitelist (supports patterns like *.example.com). Privacy No accounts. No tracking. No analytics. No remote servers. Only minimal settings and lock state are stored locally using Chrome storage. Permissions • storage: saves your settings, timers, and local-only stats • site access (host permissions): allows RickStop to run on the sites you choose and display the lock overlay