Tolerance: Doomscroll, Clickbait & AI Slop Blocker

A digital detox without blocking: blurs clickbait, rage bait, AI slop and ads on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, X & Reddit.

Tolerance is a doomscroll blocker that leaves your feeds open. It blurs the posts built to hook you, like clickbait, rage bait, AI slop and ads, YouTube Shorts, Facebook Reels, and leaves everything else readable. Works on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, X and Reddit. Tried a website blocker and switched it off within a week? Most people do. Blocking a whole site also blocks your friends, your subreddits and the tutorial you came for, so the block comes off and the scrolling comes back. Tolerance keeps the site and takes away the pull. An AI model reads each post in your feed and scores how hard it grabs your attention against how little it gives back. The high scorers get blurred. The rest of your feed stays exactly as it was. Scroll Less Without Quitting Your first 15 minutes are left alone. After that the worst posts start to blur, and the longer you scroll the more gets blurred, until the feed is dull enough to close on your own. ⭐ Features ⭐ 🎯 A Score on Every Post Every post gets a score out of 100. Hover over the badge to read, in one sentence, why it scored that way. 🌫️ Blur That Builds The blur threshold drops as your session gets longer. A quick check of your feed looks normal. An hour of scrolling does not. ✋ Press and Hold to Reveal Nothing is locked away. Press and hold a blurred post for a few seconds and it opens. That pause is usually enough to decide you didn't want it. 🚫 Ads Blurred Sponsored posts and ads get the top score on every site, so they are blurred from the start. On by default. 🎬 YouTube Shorts and Facebook Reels Hidden Shorts shelves and the Reels tray are hidden, and a Shorts link opens in the normal player. On by default, with a switch for each in the dashboard. ✍️ Write Your Own Scoring Rules The instructions the AI follows are yours to edit. Tired of crypto, celebrity gossip or election coverage? Want long reads to always get through? Say so in plain language and test it on sample posts before saving. 🙈 Hide or Show Any Topic Describe a topic in your own words and choose whether to hide it or always show it, across every site. 🤝 Trusted Sources Right-click a post and choose "Trust this author". Their posts stay unblurred until late in a long session. 📺 Subscriptions Only On YouTube, blur everything except the channels you subscribe to. 💎 Quality Mode One switch for strict days. It blurs everything except posts with real substance. 🤖 AI-Labeled Posts (optional) Blur posts that the site or the author has labeled as AI-generated. It goes by labels only and does not guess from how a post looks. 🧘 Grounding Breaks (optional) After a long stretch of scrolling, get an offer of a 30-second reset. 📊 Your Time, Your Data See how long you spend on social media each day, and export your full history as a file whenever you like. 🔒 Privacy Post text and images go only to the AI model that scores them: through OpenRouter, or your own endpoint, including a local model such as Ollama. Your settings and history stay in your browser. No account is needed and there are no analytics. Tolerance is open source (AGPL). 💳 Pricing Free tier: works straight after install, no setup. Your own OpenRouter key: about $1-2 a month for typical use. Tolerance Pro: no setup and higher limits, and it funds an independent solo project. Also tracks your time on TikTok. Want to learn more about Tolerance? - Website: https://tolerance.lol - Source code: https://github.com/gtech/tolerance - Android app: https://tolerance.lol - Theory: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GpKSAz3LFjiG7QJHq/firewalls-for-the-mind-before-we-need-them