How to Block Instagram on Your Computer (Chrome)

On a laptop Instagram looks harmless, until Reels and Explore start autoplaying. Because it is a single page app, simple blockers often miss the jump from a message to the feed. Redirect catches those in-app changes and sends you to your goals.

Add to Chrome, free to start

3 steps

Block Instagram in under a minute

1
Install Redirect
Add Redirect to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store. Blocking one site is free and needs no account.
2
Add a rule
Open the dashboard, choose whole site and enterinstagram.com
3
Choose how pauses work
Pick pause lengths and a task to finish first. Breathe. A slow breathing cycle is a calm way to check if you really need to open it.

Tips for Instagram

Make it stick

If you use Instagram for messages, block only the feeds with path rules for instagram.com/reels and instagram.com/explore.
Schedule the rule for evenings if that is when scrolling creeps in.
Set pauses to five minutes, enough to reply to a message but not enough to fall into Reels.

Redirect

instagram.comBlocking

Sends you to your Focus dashboard

Breathe. A slow breathing cycle is a calm way to check if you really need to open it.