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Pause - Stop Mindless Browsing

by Freedom

v1.0.1 Updated Oct 3, 2023 806KiB
CWS
10K
Users
★ 4.52
122 reviews
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⚠️Not updated in over 2 years Highly rated

Description

Pause breaks the cycle of distraction and mindless browsing and helps you be more focused, productive, and intentional with your technology use. When you open a distracting website, Pause creates a gentle interruption by displaying a calming green screen. After pausing for five seconds (adjustable), you can choose to continue to the site, remain on the green screen with the site temporarily blocked, or close the tab. The interruption created by Pause gently nudges you to make informed, intentional decisions about how you are spending your time. - Pause comes pre-seeded with a list of 50 top distracting websites, which you can add to or edit as needed. - You can also adjust the length of the Pause time (5 seconds is the default.) Keep Pause enabled in your browser. It’s a simple and powerful tool to help you control distraction and create more mindful browsing habits that will help you stay focused. Pause is a product of Freedom Labs, where we develop new ways to meaningfully interact with technology. Like our other extensions, Pause is highly privacy-conscious. None of your data is sent anywhere (the cloud, our servers, etc.) It remains secure on your own device. Learn more about Freedom here: https://freedom.to
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Reviews (12 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-02
miriam s jacob

It stopped working. It is enabled, but I can open any websites that should be "paused" without any barrier. There is no way to make it work.

★☆☆☆☆2022-06-21
Andre

Doesnt work for 4chan or any of the 4chan boards. Trying to use this to block myself from digesting extreme content that is radicalizing me to be the next shooter but its not working.

★☆☆☆☆2022-06-17
Aaron Stanek

Once a user is through the mandatory pause period, there is nothing to stop them from spending hour-upon-hour on a distracting site. It would be useful if the extension also added a pause period between pages of the same website.

★★☆☆☆2023-09-22
Dominik Kopeć

I would have given five stars, but for some time the extension stopped working. Previously, it only launched when the page was first opened. Now it also launches after refreshing or using the "open in new tab" option, or even after opening in the same tab. Sometimes it also doesn't launch at all, or it launches at random times (such as when I click on a youtube video to play it). It is no longer functional for me.

★★☆☆☆2022-06-25
Florin Popa

I dislike it having adds on the "pause" page.

★★★☆☆2024-05-17
Arcane n/a

It's decent but really needs a darkmode for evening browsing. Can't look at it after sunset.

★★★☆☆2024-03-14
João P.

Please remove "Get Freedom" button for Freedom Premium subscribers.

★★★☆☆2022-02-25
Eavy Eavy

Work on youtube, somehow doesnt work in google itself https://www.google.com/chrome/?&brand=

★★★☆☆2022-01-10
Frode Opdahl

It does what it needs to do, but it has an obnoxious button that promotes their main product that is bigger then the continue button. If it was possible to disable this promotion (I have already decided not to use the other products) this would get a 5 star.

★★★☆☆2021-12-09
Cash Flow

Good app, would be better if it worked properly in incognito mode. It currently just blocks you from accessing a site without pausing in incognito.

★★★☆☆2021-09-14
User 1

Good, it works, but it would be nice if you could block specific URLs within a page, eg facebook messaging but not marketplace

★★★☆☆2019-09-20
Tomek Swiecicki

Was working well for a moment. But then I decided to watch one work related training video on youtube and made an exception. Since that moment pause is not blocking youtube and I have no idea how to restore it. I tried removing and re-adding youtube to the list. Did not help.

Permissions (3)

Permissions

alarms Can schedule periodic background tasks storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 1.0.1
Updated Oct 3, 2023
Size 806KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026