Reviews for LeechBlock NG
LeechBlock NG by James Anderson
Review by Viny_Autism_Original (S2V1)
Rated 5 out of 5
by Viny_Autism_Original (S2V1), 4 months agoThis is a really good and effective extension for parents and children alike. I have never seen or heard of the functionalities of the extension, but it seems to be becoming a greater necessity for those with disabilities that have severe addiction on social media.
And it has a lot of potential to be a great extension made by a passionate extension developer that just wants the necessary freedom to make this very effective web blocker addiction extension.
As a superadapted Autistic person that already suffered dozens of obstacles for the past decade, this extension has to be the best extension for parental controls, website restrictions, locking down websites, and overall the least CPU-intensive web blocker extension.
And I hope that dozens of others with Autism - like me - to start adapting and using the extension on the most efficient way imaginable.
Your extreme levels of confidence and self-determination has made me download your extension because of your honesty and passion! And I have never seen a extension this extraordinary and well-made for combating major dangerous platforms out there.
Keep up the fight against major corporations!
And thank you for creating this extension, James!
You are extremely passionate and honest, and is willing to work with Mozilla for the future to come!
Keep that momentum up!
And be always confident on yourself.
And please make open-source surfing more popular again for the forseeable future!
Also, if you have ever heard about the Electronic Frontier Foundation, can you reach them out for a collabration on new extensions for the future?
That would have been amazing if you did that!
I already started blocking major platforms contributing to the majority of the internet dangers out there, making categories for addictive and dangerous platforms and websites alike.
And I loved your work and effort on this extension. Keep it up, man!
- TheAnonymousAutist
And it has a lot of potential to be a great extension made by a passionate extension developer that just wants the necessary freedom to make this very effective web blocker addiction extension.
As a superadapted Autistic person that already suffered dozens of obstacles for the past decade, this extension has to be the best extension for parental controls, website restrictions, locking down websites, and overall the least CPU-intensive web blocker extension.
And I hope that dozens of others with Autism - like me - to start adapting and using the extension on the most efficient way imaginable.
Your extreme levels of confidence and self-determination has made me download your extension because of your honesty and passion! And I have never seen a extension this extraordinary and well-made for combating major dangerous platforms out there.
Keep up the fight against major corporations!
And thank you for creating this extension, James!
You are extremely passionate and honest, and is willing to work with Mozilla for the future to come!
Keep that momentum up!
And be always confident on yourself.
And please make open-source surfing more popular again for the forseeable future!
Also, if you have ever heard about the Electronic Frontier Foundation, can you reach them out for a collabration on new extensions for the future?
That would have been amazing if you did that!
I already started blocking major platforms contributing to the majority of the internet dangers out there, making categories for addictive and dangerous platforms and websites alike.
And I loved your work and effort on this extension. Keep it up, man!
- TheAnonymousAutist
2,023 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by ECreator, 3 days agoFinally a good extension.
Highly recommend everyone to use this instead of other alternatives, including ethical and functionality ones.
This extension better supports wildcards and regular expressions. Not only that but it has a decent documentation about that and includes multiple features like lockdown, different block sets, easy "message from yourself" without custom code, timer and statistics. That was just amazing because I was able to block many domains I wished with more advanced filters.
I believe the only things I missed was search engine results blocks, which would be quite hard to implement. That would be very useful because I usually find domains I would not like to visit due to leech and psychological damage by searching. The extension does what it promises, though, and I can't ask for more.
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*My* ethical point of view below (which is not about how the extensions work or their features):
I don't recommend other popular alternatives like uBlocklist and Block Site because of another reason: They are HEAVILY vibe coded and this is the kind of shit that ruined Software Development for many people, me included. AI-"assisted" bullshit is horrendous and just destroyed the whole career. Not only that, but between every single LLM, the developers used Claude, by Anthropic; which is the most privacy invasive popular company I've seen thus far, Google included.
That is also more concerning than other models because of how integrated it is into deepfake generation, slop coding and AI-""art"". Antropo- from greek means human and -pic is a suffix for "in such manner". That being said, the fact a company promoting a product that replaces jobs, hobbies and makes us lose our humanity is named "human-like", is just absolutely absurd. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20018876, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20097579, 9 days agothe absolute best! Works for everything, the configuration is a little bit confusing so I don't have time limits or the thing where you get a certain amount of unblocked time every week which would be cool but that's because im too lazy to configure it and because honestly just turning it on and off alone is such a game changer I haven't really needed to sort the rest out. Thank you so much!!!!!
- Rated 5 out of 5by minga, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Venkat, 12 days agoSuper useful.. Saving my hours from distraction. Thanks for keeping this for free!
- Rated 5 out of 5by superinfra, 14 days agoVery robust and effective extension!
My only issue with it is that blocking a site overnight is harder than it needs to be, since the block time range only works if the second number is larger than the first.
That means setting 23:00-5:00 doesn't work, and you have to do both 23:00-24:00 and 00:00-5:00 instead. It works fine, but it sometimes says that the page will be unblocked at midnight even though it'll be immediately blocked right after.
Thank you for making this add-on! - Rated 5 out of 5by Joreck, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Talos, 21 days agoAfter testing so many different distraction reducing apps, extensions, etc, this is the by far the best one i have found on any platform. It is incredibly detailed and customisable, with a focus mode (lockdown mode), different block sets, time based blocks, usage limit based blocking, customisable overrides (including limits on the duration and number of overrides), blocking pages, and so much more. My only wish is they turn it into an android app with similar functionality!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mitchell, 22 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 20065457, 24 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nikki, a month agoI find that this extension is very helpful for keeping myself from going to time-wasting websites while working on class assignments. The lockdown function is very useful.
- Rated 5 out of 5by José, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19128726, a month agoPhenomenal. Helps prevent me from doomscrolling on Twitter and Reddit.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20035164, a month agohelpful, we humans sometimes need help from technology to keep us away from the bad part of technology
- Rated 5 out of 5by Amadeu, a month agoSimple and useful. Has improved my life significantly by blocking the websites that try to make it worse :)
- Rated 5 out of 5by علي الخلقي, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19745021, 2 months agoWay better than Block Site, that addon is awful
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15721891, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ccccccccc, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20004663, 2 months ago