How to block YouTube on Chrome
Add youtube.com to the list and pick your hours. It stays shut during work and opens in the evening, without you deciding again each time.
Keep a hundred sites shut — around the clock, or only between nine and six. Add the Chrome site blocker extension once, set a password, and “just five minutes” turns into something you have to type your way past.
You asked to keep this one closed until 18:00.
Distracting sites stay shut while the timer runs.
Nothing about this visit left your browser.
Breathe with the circle until the screen lets go.
Ambient sound, nothing blocked.
Twenty seconds. Your eyes have been at this screen for two hours.
Written this morning, still waiting.
Every tab is a vote for who you are becoming.
Images keep their colours. Already-dark sites are left alone.
The rhythm runs itself; you stop watching the clock.
The page warms up in the evening instead of glowing at you.
In, hold, out — follow the circle and go back to work.
click the toggle — this is the real interface, not a screenshot
You did not decide to open that tab. Your hand did it while you were thinking about something else.
The point of a blocker is that you stop having to fight it every day.
Add up to a hundred of them on the free plan. Or flip it around: allow a handful and shut everything else.
Around the clock, or only during work hours, study blocks and the last two hours before bed.
Set a password. Weakening a rule then costs more effort than sitting through the urge.
Not three. Most blockers stop you at a handful and ask for money.
freeDifferent rules for work hours and for the evening.
freeShut the whole web except the few pages you actually need.
freeThe lock holds against your own impulse, not just against strangers.
freeThe website blocker extension for Chrome works inside the browser you already use — no separate app, no system settings. Some people look for a website blocker plugin; in Chrome that is the same thing, only the store calls it an extension.
freeA page cannot hide the block screen with its own styles to unblock itself.
freeAdd youtube.com to the list and pick your hours. It stays shut during work and opens in the evening, without you deciding again each time.
Instagram, X, TikTok and Reddit on one schedule, nine to six. Weekends can have their own rules.
Pair the list with a focus session: the timer runs, the blocklist holds, and the tab you reach for by habit stays shut until you stop the session yourself.
Nine to six on weekdays covers the hours that matter and leaves the evening alone. Nothing to switch on each morning.
Allowlist mode shuts the whole web and keeps open only what you named — the strictest setting here.
Set a password. Weakening or deleting a rule then requires it, so the calm decision outranks the 11pm one.
Add the sites once, around the clock, with a password. Nothing needs to be reviewed again, and the list never leaves your browser.
Same setup, and the password matters more here: it puts a deliberate step between the urge and the site.
A page cannot make the overlay transparent with its own styles. We found that hole in our own code and closed it.
Your blocklist lives in your browser. The extension does not send us the sites you blocked, and it does not report which pages you tried to open. For comparison: the BlockSite website blocker declares collection of your web history in its own Chrome Web Store listing, and its privacy policy states it may sell or share network activity data with advertising networks.
See how we compareYes. The website blocker Chrome extension covers a hundred sites, schedules and password protection at no cost — no card, no trial that runs out, no account.
Yes. You can set time ranges, including ones that cross midnight, and different rules for different days.
An extension. You add the website blocker for Google Chrome from the Web Store, and it works in every tab straight away — there is no separate app, no account and no system-level setup.
On any http or https page you name, including subdomains. It cannot touch Chrome’s own internal pages, because no extension can.
A password. With it set, weakening or removing a rule requires the password, so the decision you made calmly outranks the decision you make at 11pm.
Those block sites and stop there. Here blocking is one of twelve modes in the same extension — focus sessions, screen time, dark mode and sleep come with it, and the free plan covers a hundred sites, schedules and a password.
The block overlay is protected against pages that try to hide it with their own CSS. We found and closed that hole ourselves: a site could previously make the overlay nearly transparent.
Focus sessions, screen time, dark mode, sleep, eye exercises — all free, all on your device.
Add to Chrome — free