Reviews for Distract Me Not (website blocker)
Distract Me Not (website blocker) by AXeL
32 reviews
- by B-, 6 months agoRated 4 out of 5
- by KirkH420, 7 months agoRated 1 out of 5It's not possible to block URLs from an add-on. If you think that it can be done, you're mistaken and what you're seeing is a redirect to an internal page. Some of these add-ons supply a blank page, some display a configuration page... but they all display some sort of page. Blocking a URL would stop the browser from loading anything at all. Which is what is being asked when a person is asking for a site to be blocked. A request to a URL behind one of these fake-blockers will still be seen by the server that the end user wished to block. The User's IP (or VPN IP) will still be logged on the host server.
- by Firefox user 16881767, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by yukupalm, a year agoRated 3 out of 5In theory I love it. In practice it's blocking pages that it shouldn't, although I'm in Blacklist and not in Whitelist mode. Some of these pages I need for work. If I need to turn it of to be able to work, it's unusable for me.
Developer response
posted a year agoHey, thanks for your feedback! It would be helpful if you can open an issue on the github repository with steps to reproduce the same behavior => https://github.com/AXeL-dev/distract-me-not/issues - by reviewer, a year agoRated 5 out of 5Great add-on! The only thing missing for me is an option to disable the blocker for a specific amount of minutes (e.g. 5 min, 10 min)
I have the habit to look up something on wikipedia for my studies and then losing myself in various articles, so a usage-timer would be a helpful extension to this add-onDeveloper response
posted a year agoHey, thanks for your rating! For your request, i guess that you can do that from the unblock interface (but you need to set a password first) see the following screenshot => https://github.com/AXeL-dev/distract-me-not/blob/master/screenshots/unblock.png?raw=true - by Atharva Pai, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Jeremy, a year agoRated 5 out of 5This tool has helped me a ton in keeping me away from distracting websites. It is easy to use as well as effective
- by Marco, a year agoRated 5 out of 5Simply awesome, I'd like to see some more filters like temporary excluding one website or tab
- by Firefox user 16651822, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Ishidres, a year agoRated 4 out of 5Edit: Response at the developer: Thanks for your prompt response and help. I updated my review and will probably downgrade to the previous extension.
Developer response
posted a year ago^^ this wasn't a reason to give the extension a bad note :/, i removed the overwrite option because i thought it wasn't really interesting, especially that the overlay cannot be injected before the site starts loading, however this behavior can be restored & set as optional, for the whitelist issue it might be a bug, so if you can open 2 separate issues for that on the github repository (https://github.com/AXeL-dev/distract-me-not/issues) i would be thankful & happy to help on finding a fix, otherwise you can revert to any previous version from the link below (before doing a revert please export your blacklist & whitelist on the new version, so you can reimport them on the old one): https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/distract-me-not/versions/ - by Firefox user 15051113, a year agoRated 5 out of 5Perfect addon that became even more awesome after a recent update. Can't believe this kind of addon really exists.. SIMPLE yet POWERFUL!
- by egbulsoni, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5This add on is all I need, thank you so much, no complicated bullshit or needless timers, just a blacklist and toggle button.
- by Arnav, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by kondu, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5The only addon in this category with the "redirect to url" feature I was looking for
- by Novimatrem, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Wow, thank you- this extension is great! Hopefully I can get my productivity back, from the likes of YouTube, reddit, and Mastodon, now. :p
- by maks030707, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5works just fine, blocks any url you want. its also completely free, great alternative to some other paid website blockers.
one thing id love to see is a schedule option, for example "turns off at 7pm, turns back on at 9am" - by Michael Große, 3 years agoRated 3 out of 5I would love to see an option to automatically enable that block during certain times of the day. e.g. from 8 in the evening to 8 in the morning, so Facebook and YouTube won't mess with my sleep.
- by Firefox user 15313889, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5Excellent. Absolutely wonderful for ADHD! Even better when combined with Rainy Mood! (The power combo!)
- by Firefox user 15310373, 3 years agoRated 1 out of 5no cut and paste. even after blacklisting a site some things still persist.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoCould you please open an issue on the github repository with more details? (https://github.com/AXeL-dev/distract-me-not/issues) - by tchambers, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Rapteon, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15079567, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5works flawless! I have to write this review to distract me from work...