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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing by kibwen on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:36PM (#22940077)
I've yet to check out the OP's extension, but I've used a Firefox extension called LeechBlock before which (with some creativity) can achieve your bullet points as well. For the first I would set up one blocking profile to apply through early morning and a different profile (with the same sites) for the rest of the day; for the second LeechBlock lets you put a countdown timer in the corner of the screen so that at all times you know how much time you have left; for the third it lets you set up an "Override" which will resume blocking after a certain amount of time.

(Sorry if this is distracting from the OP, I aim not to shill but to help more people make use of productivity tools in this era of endless distraction.)

Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing by fragmede on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @09:30AM (#22945309)
I use Crackbook Revival (Chrome) which is similar in purpose. However instead of giving you a countdown timer (because "but 5 more minutes, mooooom") it never actually stops you from browsing, but instead slows down select sites with every page load. First loading a page is instantaneous. 100th time takes seconds which is frustrating enough to cause me to go off and do something else, but without the same anxieties that Leechblock causes.
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing by dkthehuman on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:09PM (#22940304)
No need to apologize! I enjoy trying other tools in this space and learning from all the different practices they use. Will check out LeechBlock — thanks!