How to block websites on Chrome
Chrome has no built-in site blocker. Here is the simplest way: add the site to Redirect, choose the whole site, a path or a pattern, and you land on your goals instead.
What the video shows
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Install Redirect from the Chrome Web Store and pin it to your toolbar.
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Open it and add a site in one click from Recommended, or type any address, like reddit.com.
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Choose how much to block: the whole site, a specific path like YouTube Shorts, or a pattern for advanced rules.
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Now when you open that site, you do not hit a wall. You land on your Focus page, with your goals right there.
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If you really need it, take a pause. You pick how long, and Redirect asks for a small task first, so you only go in on purpose.
Read the transcript
Chrome has no built-in way to block a website. Here is the simplest way to do it, with Redirect. Install Redirect from the Chrome Web Store and pin it to your toolbar. Open it and add a site in one click from Recommended, or type any address, like reddit.com. Choose how much to block: the whole site, a specific path like YouTube Shorts, or a pattern for advanced rules. Now when you open that site, you do not hit a wall. You land on your Focus page, with your goals right there. If you really need it, take a pause. You pick how long, and Redirect asks for a small task first, so you only go in on purpose. Redirect works in Chrome, Edge, Brave and Arc. Get it at heyredirect.com.
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Close the tab. Open your goals.
Redirect sends distracting sites to the goals you wrote down, and makes every pause a choice.
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