PuzzleBlocker

PuzzleBlocker

PuzzleBlocker is a browser extension that helps you spend less time procrastinating and more time being focused through long-term behaviour changes. Solve Tangram puzzles to unlock time-wasting websites and make your brain work for you, not against.

What is PuzzleBlocker?
PuzzleBlocker is a browser extension that helps you spend less time procrastinating and more time being focused. Solve Tangram puzzles to unlock time-wasting websites and make your brain work for you, not against.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 3 ▼ -1
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 1.1.5 (Last updated: 2021-08-19)
Creation date: 2021-06-11
Weekly download count: NaN
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • alarms
  • webNavigation
Size: 146.47K
URLs: Website
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Summary

PuzzleBlocker is a browser extension that helps you spend less time procrastinating and more time being focused. To unlock time-wasting websites – like Facebook, Instagram or Reddit – you have to solve Tangram puzzles.

Solving puzzles takes time and will make your brain think procrastination is actually hard work. At best, you will close the tab and keep working. At worst, you have "earned" the reward of procrastinating for a couple of minutes.

Read more on how it works at puzzleblocker.com


If you have any issues, feel free to submit bugs or feedback through the provided tools of communication. Any feedback on the app or ideas how to improve it are greatly appreciated!


This extension currently also works in Chrome.

User reviews
This is great. There are some sites I spend too much time on, and this makes me pause a bit before I go to them. Because it's a puzzle, I don't try to work around it. And because it's not a hard puzzle, it gives me time to think about whether I really want to use the site or if it's just habit/procrastination.
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Safety
Risk impact

PuzzleBlocker is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

PuzzleBlocker has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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