Boring Mode - Dopamine Blocker icon

Boring Mode - Dopamine Blocker

by DanteArcene Β· Workflow & Planning
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 18 Oct 2026

Turn addictive websites grayscale. Remove color, remove the hook, and regain your focus.

Users
21
+8 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#151K
#126K among extensions
Version
1.2.0
updated 9 Dec 2025

Users

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Latest, 18 Oct 2026: 21 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

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About Boring Mode - Dopamine Blocker

🎯 STOP SCROLLING. START FOCUSING. The internet is designed to hijack your attention. Bright colors, flashy thumbnails, endless feedsβ€”they're all engineered to keep you hooked. Boring Mode fights back by turning addictive websites grayscale, removing the visual dopamine triggers that keep you scrolling. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ HOW IT WORKS Click the extension icon, flip the switch, and watch distracting websites turn gray instantly. No color = no hook = no endless scrolling. β€’ YouTube becomes a research tool, not a rabbit hole β€’ Twitter/X becomes information, not entertainment β€’ Instagram becomes boring (as it should be) β€’ Reddit becomes readable, not addictive β€’ TikTok becomes... actually unusable (that's the point) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ†“ FREE FEATURES βœ“ Grayscale any 3 websites βœ“ Adjustable intensity (25%, 50%, 100%) βœ“ Quick preset buttons for top 5 addictive sites βœ“ 60-minute Focus Timer (locks toggle until time's up) βœ“ 15-minute Snooze (for quick breaks) βœ“ Keyboard shortcut (Alt+Shift+B) βœ“ Per-site settings remembered forever βœ“ Works instantly, no page reload needed ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ PRO FEATURES Unlock with a one-time purchase or 7-day free trial: πŸ”“ UNLIMITED SITES No more choosing which 3 sites to block. Gray them all. πŸ“… AUTOMATIC SCHEDULES Set work hours (9 AM - 5 PM) and Boring Mode activates automatically. Never forget to focus again. πŸ”’ HARD MODE The ultimate willpower hack. During scheduled hours, you CAN'T turn off Boring Modeβ€”even if you try. Your future self will thank you. πŸ”„ WHITELIST MODE Flip the script: make ALL websites boring by default, except your whitelisted work tools. Maximum focus, zero effort. πŸ“€ EXPORT/IMPORT Backup your settings or sync across computers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ›‘οΈ PRIVACY FIRST β€’ 100% local storage - your data never leaves your browser β€’ No accounts required β€’ No tracking, no analytics, no data collection β€’ No external servers (except optional license verification) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚑ QUICK START 1. Click the Boring Mode icon in your toolbar 2. Navigate to a distracting website 3. Flip the toggle to ON 4. Watch the colors drain away 5. Actually get work done ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ’‘ WHY GRAYSCALE WORKS Research shows that color is a primary trigger for dopamine release when browsing. Red notification badges, colorful thumbnails, vibrant UIβ€”they all exploit your brain's reward system. By removing color, you remove the hook. Websites become tools instead of traps. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ“§ SUPPORT: dantearcene@gmail.com Strip the color. Strip the hook. Get your focus back. πŸŒ‘

Growth

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7 days+4+23.5%00.00
30 days+8+61.5%00.00
6 months+7+50.0%00.00

Version history

1 versions recorded
1.2.09 Dec 2025

Details

Category
Workflow & Planning
First seen
9 Dec 2025
Size
279 KB
Languages
en-US
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
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Extension ID
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Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 2
Permissions
activeTabstoragescriptingcontextMenusalarms
Site access
<all_urls>
Can read and change data on every website you visit.

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