Show HN: Dopamine Blocker – break your Facebook habit

Hey everybody, I threw this together yesterday as a side project to make my first chrome extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dopamine-blocker/c...

Dopamine Blocker is a tool to help break your social media addictions. Every time you visit your favorite social media site, your brain gets a hit of dopamine that keeps you coming back again and again.

Dopamine Blocker attempts to breaks that cycle. Now, instead of getting a hit of dopamine when you visit the social media site, you will be faced with an annoying alarm and a rapidly moving page that is hard to read. Your brain won't get the dopamine you crave and you will hopefully stop subconsciously associating social media sites as a dopamine source.

Currently works with: Facebook, Hacker News, Reddit, Twitter, and Youtube.

Each site can be turned on and off in the options page for this extension.

Let me know what you think!

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latexr 8y ago ↗

I don’t wish to create offence, but your website[1] looks amateurish and untrustworthy. This is relevant because your extension requests access to read and change the data of every website I visit, making me wary of installing it.

I really think you should open-source this, so we can at least audit/fork the code. Also, it’d be useful if we could add any domain to the extension.

I’ll end saying I like the idea and find it intriguing. I’d like to see some research into this to see if it works.

[1]: http://www.creativeapestudios.com/