@10tion

Reclaim your attention from endless scrolling. Mindful breaks from short-form content.

@10tion: Mindful Browsing & Focus Enforcer Stop doomscrolling. Reclaim your focus. Build healthier digital habits with mindful friction. Are you tired of opening a new tab to do some quick research, only to find yourself an hour later, mindlessly scrolling through YouTube Shorts, TikToks, or Instagram Reels? You are not alone. Modern social media platforms are engineered to hijack your attention using infinite scroll algorithms, auto-playing videos, and variable reward systems that keep you hooked. @10tion (Attention) is a privacy-first, powerful Chrome extension designed to help you break free from the addictive loop of short-form content. Instead of using rigid site blockers that you'll inevitably disable when you get frustrated, @10tion introduces "Mindful Friction"—a brief, engaging cognitive pause that interrupts your autopilot scrolling and forces you to make a conscious decision about your screen time. 🛑 The Problem: The Short-Form Content Epidemic Our attention spans are under constant assault. Platforms like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and Facebook Reels deliver highly stimulating, bite-sized dopamine hits every few seconds. This constant context-switching rewires our brains, making it difficult to focus on deep work, reading, or long-form media. Traditional site blockers are often too punishing. They block everything entirely, preventing you from using YouTube for a tutorial or Instagram to reply to a message. When a blocker is too strict, users simply turn it off and relapse. ✨ The Solution: @10tion @10tion takes a nuanced, intelligent approach to digital wellbeing. We don't believe in locking you out of the internet. Instead, we believe in restoring your agency. We achieve this through two primary mechanisms: Surgical Blocking: We block the addictive parts of a website (like YouTube Shorts or Instagram Reels) while allowing you to use the rest of the site (like long-form YouTube videos or direct messages) completely uninterrupted. Mindful Challenges: If you actively want to take a break and scroll, you can! But you have to earn it first by completing a quick cognitive challenge. This breaks the subconscious habit loop and ensures your browsing is intentional. 🚀 Core Features Deep Dive 🎯 Smart, Granular Blocking Unlike basic blockers that use a sledgehammer approach, @10tion uses a scalpel. You have total control over how strict the blocking is for each individual platform: Short-Form Only Mode: Detects and blocks specifically the short-form video feeds. For example, on YouTube, youtube.com/shorts will be blocked, as well as the Shorts shelf on the homepage, but you can still search for and watch regular videos. Perfect for Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Entire Site Mode: Blocks the entire domain. This is ideal for sites that are inherently infinite-scroll traps, like TikTok, Snapchat, or X (Twitter). Custom Domains: Want to block Reddit, Hacker News, or a specific news site? You can easily add any custom domain to your blocklist with a single click. 🧠 Mindful Friction Challenges When you attempt to access a blocked site or feed, @10tion intercepts the page and presents a beautiful, calming overlay. To unlock temporary access, you must complete a quick neurological "speed bump." You can choose which challenges are active: Type a Quote: Retype a motivational or stoic quote. This forces your brain to switch from passive consumption to active language processing. Solve Math: Answer a basic arithmetic question (e.g., 12 + 15). This engages the logical, analytical part of your brain, breaking the emotional pull of the feed. Brain Teasers: Solve a quick riddle or word puzzle. Why this works: These challenges take just 3–5 seconds, but that is exactly enough time to disrupt the automatic habit loop and ask yourself, "Do I really want to be doing this right now?" ⏱️ Timed, Controlled Breaks Once you complete a challenge, you are granted a timed break. You aren't given infinite access. Choose Your Limit: Select a 2-minute, 5-minute, or 10-minute break. Visual Timer: The extension icon and popup display a live countdown timer. Auto-Reblock: When your timer expires, the page is gently but immediately re-blocked. No "just one more video" excuses. 🛡️ Anti-Abuse Mechanisms To prevent you from chaining breaks back-to-back all day, @10tion enforces healthy pacing: Daily Limits: By default, you are limited to a healthy number of breaks per day (e.g., 10 breaks). Once you hit the limit, access is firmly restricted until midnight. Consecutive Limit: You can only take 2 breaks in a row. Cooldown Periods: After taking back-to-back breaks, a 15-minute mandatory cooldown period kicks in before you can unlock another break. 📊 Insightful Statistics & Streaks What gets measured gets managed. @10tion provides a sleek, beautifully designed dashboard right in your browser popup to visualize your digital habits: Blocks Prevented: See exactly how many times the extension stopped you from mindlessly opening a feed. Focus Streak: Build a streak of days where you stayed under your daily break limit. Gamify your focus! Weekly Trends: Compare this week's screen time to last week's. Are you improving? Peak Distraction Hours: Discover the time of day you are most vulnerable to distraction (e.g., 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) so you can plan your deep work around it. 🎨 Stunning, Calming Aesthetics Digital wellbeing tools shouldn't feel like a punishment. @10tion features a gorgeous, modern UI with smooth glassmorphism effects, a calming emerald-green color palette, and subtle breathing animations. The blocking overlay is designed to reduce anxiety and promote taking a deep breath before proceeding. 🔒 absolute Privacy: Zero Data Collection Your browsing history is incredibly personal. We believe your data belongs to you, and absolutely no one else. @10tion is fundamentally designed with a Privacy-First architecture. 100% Local Storage: All your statistics, custom domains, settings, and browsing habits are stored entirely locally on your own machine using Chrome's local storage API. No Remote Servers: We do not have a backend server, database, or cloud infrastructure. It is technically impossible for us to access your data because it never leaves your physical device. No Trackers or Analytics: There is no Google Analytics, no telemetry, no crashlytics, and no hidden tracking scripts. Zero. No Accounts Required: You don't need an email, a password, or a subscription to use @10tion. Just install and go. Open Source Auditable: Our codebase is open architecture, meaning technically inclined users can verify exactly what the extension is doing. Permissions Explained: storage: Required to save your settings, statistics, and block rules locally on your device. tabs: Required to check if the current active tab is a blocked site or to close the tab if you choose to exit. alarms: Required to run the background break timers and daily midnight resets reliably. scripting: Required to inject the blocking overlay and detect short-form feeds on specific websites. host permissions: We request access specifically to the platforms we block (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, etc.) so we can detect and block individual elements (like reels) without blocking the whole site. 💡 Who is @10tion for? Students & Academics: Stop losing hours of study time to the TikTok vortex. Use the surgical blocking to keep access strictly to educational YouTube videos while blocking the Shorts feed. Software Engineers & Developers: Stay in the flow state. Add Reddit, Hacker News, or X to your custom blocklist to prevent context-switching during deep coding sessions. ADHD & Neurodivergent Individuals: The mindful challenges provide the exact structural friction needed to interrupt impulsivity and hyperfocus on the wrong things. Parents: Help your children build healthier relationships with their devices without draconian, rage-inducing absolute blockers. Anyone feeling burnt out: If your screen time report makes you feel miserable, it's time to take back control. 🛠️ Frequently Asked Questions Q: Can I just disable the extension when I want to scroll? A: You can, but that requires navigating to your extension settings, which is multiple clicks away. The beauty of @10tion is the Mindful Friction. By offering you an easy, structured way to take a 5-minute break via a math challenge, your brain takes the path of least resistance (solving the puzzle) rather than the frustrating path of digging through Chrome settings to disable the tool. Q: Will this slow down my browsing? A: Not at all. @10tion is built using modern, lightweight JavaScript and the highly efficient Manifest V3 architecture. The short-form detectors run blazingly fast and only execute on the specific sites you have configured. Q: Can I customize the colors and look? A: The extension uses a carefully curated, research-backed dark mode and emerald color palette specifically designed to reduce eye strain and induce a calming psychological effect when you encounter a block. Q: Is it really free? A: Yes. No ads, no premium tiers, no hidden subscriptions. Reclaiming your attention shouldn't cost you a monthly fee. 🌱 The Philosophy Behind the Code The modern internet is an attention economy. Trillions of dollars are invested in figuring out how to keep your eyes glued to a screen for as long as possible. You alone against a supercomputer algorithm is not a fair fight. Willpower is a finite resource. You cannot rely on willpower alone to stop scrolling when the feed is designed to bypass your prefrontal cortex entirely. @10tion acts as your digital prefrontal cortex. It steps in exactly when your willpower fails, providing a structured guardrail that guides you back to reality. Stop letting algorithms dictate how you spend the finite hours of your life. Install @10tion today, take a deep breath, and get your focus back.