Reviews for LeechBlock NG
LeechBlock NG by James Anderson
Review by stjohnmccloskey
Rated 5 out of 5
by stjohnmccloskey, 4 months 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.
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.
2,034 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Paul, 5 days agoThis is the best productivity tool that I've used. However, it uses a TON of resources. I was trying to figure out which extension was causing my CPU usage to jump over 100% so consistently, so I turned everything off and added each back one by one. My resources stayed below 30%, normally between 7 and 17% (via about:processes, verified with Windows Task Manager). But when I turned this extension on, my CPU usage suddenly jumped and stayed consistently high.
I don't know why something that is only meant to block websites is using so many resources on a consistent basis. It could be inefficient programming; it could be that it's being used as a backdoor for something nefarious. Either way, I'm not a fan. Too bad.Developer response
posted 5 days agoThanks for the review. LeechBlock does not normally exhibit high CPU usage. There's probably an explanation and solution for your issue. Please post a report to GitHub (via the support page) and we'll look into it. - Rated 5 out of 5by 退出党团队远离中共邪教访问c88c.us, 6 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mahmoud Mohajer, 12 days agoI can say it is the best extension someone can have to be free from distractions of online world.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Xavaltir, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20165038, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17645868, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20158571, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eren Gökırmak, 21 days agoThe simplest extension that allows me to specify how much and when I can use certain (in my case social media) websites. Exactly what I needed, with the very appreciated flexibility of allow overrides when you truly need to check something out on those sites.
No complaints, just a well-made extension. - Rated 5 out of 5by noaw, a month agoit blocked the sites nicely but it still couldn't stop me from being a procrastinating piece of shit
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20070130, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nereplameri, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18598472, a month agoSaves me from watching Pixiv and adult content.
- Rated 5 out of 5by bia, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aerovel, a month agoSimple but powerful addon! It's solved all my problems to block urls in subdomains. Strongly recommended for familes with kids =)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16386809, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ECreator, a month 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, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20097579, 2 months 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, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Venkat, 2 months agoSuper useful.. Saving my hours from distraction. Thanks for keeping this for free!