How to stop watching Reels on your laptop
One path rule for instagram.com/reels blocks the Reels loop, even when you tap in from inside the app. Messages and your profile keep working.
What the video shows
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In Redirect, add a rule for instagram.com/reels.
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Tap into Reels from anywhere inside the app, and Redirect catches it, even without a page reload.
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Messages and your profile still work. Only the Reels loop is gone.
Read the transcript
You open Instagram to reply to a message, and twenty Reels later you forgot why. In Redirect, add a rule for instagram.com/reels. Tap into Reels from anywhere inside the app, and Redirect catches it, even without a page reload. Messages and your profile still work. Only the Reels loop is gone. Get Redirect at heyredirect.com.
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