Molasses

Slows your feeds down more and more the longer you stay, so scrolling gets boring instead of blocked.

Molasses blocks nothing. It makes scrolling tedious. Blocking an app does not break the loop: it creates frustration, and frustration gets worked around. Infinite scroll runs on an immediate reward, a few hundred milliseconds between the gesture and the payoff. Molasses attacks that delay instead. The extension leaves everything open and degrades the feed progressively as the session goes on. The first minutes are never touched: coming in to answer a message should not be punished, only inertia should. After that, the slope climbs. WHAT DEGRADES • Feed loading. New waves of posts take longer and longer to arrive. • Images and video. Seconds to open, blurred and desaturated. • Scrolling. Progressively more gesture for the same distance, with micro freezes. • Clicking. Past a threshold, a small share of clicks go wrong. Never on a text field, never on an irreversible action. ONE SESSION, ALL FEEDS The clock lives in the extension, not in the tab. Eight minutes on one feed, then you switch to another, and you arrive on the second one already at eight minutes. Changing sites resets nothing. YOU CHOOSE THE SITES Nothing is watched until you say so. A handful of the usual feeds come preloaded and switched off, ready to tick, and the screenshots show exactly which ones. Beyond those, a single field accepts any address you type: a forum, a news site, a shop, whatever your own version of the problem happens to be. THREE FIVE MINUTE EMERGENCIES A DAY A real five minute need should cost nothing. Taking one is free and instant. The counter resets on its own at midnight. The session clock keeps running during it: an emergency suspends the degradation, not the measurement. CHANGING A SETTING COSTS 200 CHARACTERS This is the core of the thing. Three intensity notches, and switching between them means retyping a 200 character code drawn onto an image, pasting blocked, one typo and it all starts over. Roughly ninety seconds of typing. It does not stop someone determined, and that is not the point: it stops the 11pm impulse, and the impulse is the actual opponent. Two deliberate exceptions: adding a feed to the list is free, and so is taking an emergency. Making it harder should never cost you. AND IT GETS MEASURED The Stats tab asks you to guess how long you think you spend before it shows you anything. A guess given after reading the result is worth nothing. Then it shows the gap, feed by feed, and your week by week trajectory. Most people are surprised by both. SEVEN DAYS FREE, THEN $29.99 A YEAR OR $99 ONCE Everything is included from the first minute of the trial: all the levers, all the feeds, the stats. Nothing is nagged at you until the last three days. There is no free tier and no upsell, because a half crippled version of this would just teach you that it does not work. PRIVACY Molasses requests no access at install time: its manifest declares no host permission. Each feed is authorised one at a time, by you. Unticking a feed hands its permission back to the browser, and not one line of the extension runs there any more. The session log holds no page address, no content and no identifier: only durations and site names. Everything stays in your browser local storage, and export is one click away. No ads, no tracker, no analytics. Payment goes through ExtensionPay and Stripe. The extension asks them one question, "has this licence been paid for", and stores the yes or no. It never sees your card, and your browsing never reaches them.