Reviews for LeechBlock NG
LeechBlock NG by James Anderson
Review by Rogue Art
Rated 5 out of 5
by Rogue Art, 6 years agoOne of the best addons I have ever used--probably would miss this as much, if not more than an adblocker. It's very effective at blocking distracting sites and the impact on my daily life has been significant.
As far as impact on the browser, LeechBlock itself uses very little RAM and CPU as an addon and it works very quickly (no delay in intercepting) in blocking websites. I also like that it just sits there in its little corner in my browser--no random alerts asking you to download another addon/write a review, ads, etc. like some addons.
The choice of features are excellent--being able to use wildcards to block the distracting pages of a website and allowing the productive parts is genius. The override and delaying feature is pretty smart too. I've used a good mix of all these features in the last few months that I've been using the addon. My favorite one is probably the "immediately block when conditions are met" since it just forces me to get off of social media and other distracting websites unlike other blockers that only block new instances of a website.
Overall, this is a very useful and very interesting productivity tool. It's unreal to see an addon of this quality being produced for free and I'm glad that it has all the features and customization that it has. It's definitely achieved its goal as a productivity tool and has easily cut my time on distracting sites.
As far as impact on the browser, LeechBlock itself uses very little RAM and CPU as an addon and it works very quickly (no delay in intercepting) in blocking websites. I also like that it just sits there in its little corner in my browser--no random alerts asking you to download another addon/write a review, ads, etc. like some addons.
The choice of features are excellent--being able to use wildcards to block the distracting pages of a website and allowing the productive parts is genius. The override and delaying feature is pretty smart too. I've used a good mix of all these features in the last few months that I've been using the addon. My favorite one is probably the "immediately block when conditions are met" since it just forces me to get off of social media and other distracting websites unlike other blockers that only block new instances of a website.
Overall, this is a very useful and very interesting productivity tool. It's unreal to see an addon of this quality being produced for free and I'm glad that it has all the features and customization that it has. It's definitely achieved its goal as a productivity tool and has easily cut my time on distracting sites.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Fraeyalise, 11 days agoThank you for helping me break the habits of constantly checking the cesspool that is Facebook & reddit. I am much happier when I let leechblock do its thing
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18955378, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ram, 16 days agoamazing productivity extension that can block sites and also can let you set a specific timer before it lets you access a site
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- Rated 5 out of 5by burningArsenic, 19 days agoThis extension is a lifesaver in the modern landscape of every single website ever trying their hardest to keep your attention for as long as possible
- Rated 5 out of 5by Лаша, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14333858, a month agoAbsolutely wonderful Firefox extension. Many settings to tailor to your needs. Works as intended!
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- Rated 5 out of 5by shu, a month agoもともと、Blocksiteを使っていたが、無料でできることが少なくて、代替サービスを探していたところ、この拡張機能に出会った。無料ですべての機能が使えて、最高の拡張機能。仕事中、勉強中に関係ないサイトを見てしまう人はぜひ導入してみてください。
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19946603, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by stjohnmccloskey, a month agoWhat a stellar extension. Practically every possible arrangement of options is on the table; the settings take a little bit of fiddling and figuring out, but the documentation is quite good, and although I haven't needed to use it I believe the support forum is also.
The only thing I haven't seen (which would just tickle my particular ADHD brain in the right way) is having the "time limit after which to block: x minutes in every Y hours" be a hard block, and a delayed block (for 60 seconds, say) before accessing it even for those X minutes!
Overall, I'm very grateful this exists. Thank you for working on it! I think it really helps a lot of people.
Looks as though some of the one-star reviews here relate to the author's view of the world. For what it's worth, I think I'd agree with people posting such reviews that the views they attribute to this extension's author should be addressed publicly, and that we should shout the more-caring and more-loving attitude louder than anyone else can shout their less-caring and less-loving views.
Still...reviews on a firefox extension are an odd forum to try to have that conversation, and more importantly than that, I think we can all agree that views like that don't change by one-off internet conversations. Views like that only change when the people who have those views are forced by circumstances to have close respectful relationships with people who suffer because of those views.