StayFocusd - Block Distracting Websites chrome extension

What is StayFocusd - Block Distracting Websites?

StayFocusd - Block Distracting Websites is a productivity chrome extension. it's a free extension and is featured in Productivity, it has 500,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 4.43 from 6,384 rated user, last update is 670 days ago.

What’s new in version 1.7.2?

                You sit down at the computer, and you swear you'll be productive. Next thing you know, it's twelve hours later. You've checked your email, updated your Facebook status, blown through 200 pages of Reddit, read every article in your Twitter feed, looked up your favorite band on Wikipedia, vanity googled yourself, cyber-stalked your ex, browsed through all your high-school crushes' Instagram feeds, and lost a week's pay playing online poker.

What you haven't done is WORK.

StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.

It's highly configurable, allowing you to block or allow entire sites, specific subdomains, specific paths, specific pages, even specific in-page content (videos, images, forms, etc). 

Problems? Questions? Suggestions? Effusive praise? Email [email protected]

Want to be notified about upgrades and fixes? Follow @stayfocusd at http://twitter.com/stayfocusd

PRIVACY NOTICE: 
StayFocusd does not automatically collect any personal information, nor does it track any information about which sites you have visited or for how long. It also does not transmit any of your data off your own computer. The lone exception is that it uses Google Sync to sync your Blocked Sites and Allowed Sites to your other computers. You can disable that feature from the Customize tab in the StayFocusd settings page.

If you contact StayFocusd via email, your email address and any personally identifiable information included in your email may be retained in StayFocusd's customer support inbox. This information will only be used for providing customer support at your request—your information will not be sold, distributed, or used by StayFocusd or any other party for any reason other than to resolve your support request.

When you install StayFocusd, it will ask you to grant a number of permissions, including "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit." This permission is required in order for StayFocusd to run on any site which you may visit—without this permission, StayFocusd would not be able to block websites. While the permission technically grants StayFocusd the ability to read and change data, the extension does not, in fact, do that in any way. None of your data is read, and none is changed. Period.

This extension is maintained by Sensor Tower.            

How to install StayFocusd - Block Distracting Websites?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of StayFocusd - Block Distracting Websites

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Reviews of stayfocusd - block distracting websites:

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Bryan Vasek February 27th, 2023

This used to be a great extension but it was just acquired by a web data mining company and they are hoovering up your info. The most egregious section in their new required terms was seeking to control what users do online through the "code of conduct". Not that I intend to cause any harm online but a simple web extension whose purpose was to set time limits on certain URLs should not have any influence/control over users behavior and use of the internet. I recommend that everyone remove this extension ASAP! See below excerpt from the new required terms of service. You agree that you will not, under any circumstances: - Post any information, content or other material (or post links to any information or content) that contains nudity, excessive violence or is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, libelous, or racially, sexually, religiously offensive or otherwise objectionable. - Engage in ongoing toxic behavior, such as repeatedly posting information on an unsolicited basis. - Attempt to, or harass, abuse, or harm, or advocate or incite harassment, abuse, or harm of another person, group, including Sensor Tower employees, directors, officers, and customer service representatives.

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Safak Gezer February 22nd, 2023

It is now part of the "Sensor Tower Family", the only problem being Sensor Tower is not a family, but A MAJOR WEB/MOBILE CONSUMER USAGE DATA COLLECTOR. This little extension that i've been using for almost ten years just got upgraded from being a must-have addition to Chrome, to something that no one in its right mind should ever touch. REMOVE NOW, AND DO NOT INSTALL.

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Patrick Musselman February 10th, 2023

Used to like this but lately has been opening up an advertising tab every time I open a new tab. Making me close a tab I didn't even want to open every time I need to open a new window is not going to help my productivity.

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