Addiction Recovery for YouTube™ – Time Limit, Tracker & Blocker

YouTube detox for focus and productivity: a daily time budget, time tracker, statistics and a distraction blocker. Fully on-device.

A daily time limit for YouTube that follows what you watch, lets you finish the video you are on, and then closes the site until tomorrow. Banning the site outright also takes away what is worth watching there. A flat daily timer fails the other way: a 15-minute tutorial leaves 45 minutes for scrolling, and a 2-hour lecture forces the limit up for good. This extension budgets your time by category instead, so learning stays and doomscrolling goes: a detox you can keep up, not a ban. HOW IT WORKS • Daily time budget. A time tracker counts the minutes a video plays or you are actively browsing; the toolbar icon and a small timer on the player show what is left. • One question per video: what is this? Learning, Entertainment, Music, or categories of your own. One click, or file a whole channel for good. • Budgets per category. An hour of Entertainment a day while Learning may use the rest. • Finish what you are watching. When a budget runs out, whatever is playing may run to its end; then the site is closed until tomorrow. • Nothing is lost. Everything you were stopped on is saved for later and shown at the top of your feed. • Blocked hours. A distraction blocker for the hours when you need your focus: the site stays closed during work or at night. • Shorts on your terms. Count them against a category without being asked, or block them entirely. • Statistics. See where your screen time went: per day, per category, per channel and per video, with CSV export. • No easy way out. Raising a limit takes effect tomorrow. One 15-minute emergency override a day, and it shows in your statistics. WHO IT IS FOR Students, people working from home, and anyone who opens one tutorial and looks up two hours later. It is a productivity and self-control tool against procrastination: it protects your focus without taking away the tutorials, lectures and music you came for. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything stays in your browser. No account, no server, no analytics, no ads. • Nothing is recorded until you press Start on the welcome page, which tells you exactly what is kept. • Export or delete your data whenever you like. Open source (GPL-3.0). GOOD TO KNOW • Works on youtube.com in Chrome on a computer. The music site, the mobile app and other browsers are not covered. • It is a self-control tool, not a parental control: you can always switch it off. It is not medical or psychological treatment. Free, with no paid features. If it helps you, a rating and a comment are the best way to say so. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions. This extension is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by YouTube or Google.