Reviews for LeechBlock NG
LeechBlock NG by James Anderson
Review by ECreator
Rated 5 out of 5
by ECreator, 2 months agoFinally a good extension.
Highly recommend everyone to use this instead of other alternatives, including ethical and functionality ones.
This extension better supports wildcards and regular expressions. Not only that but it has a decent documentation about that and includes multiple features like lockdown, different block sets, easy "message from yourself" without custom code, timer and statistics. That was just amazing because I was able to block many domains I wished with more advanced filters.
I believe the only things I missed was search engine results blocks, which would be quite hard to implement. That would be very useful because I usually find domains I would not like to visit due to leech and psychological damage by searching. The extension does what it promises, though, and I can't ask for more.
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*My* ethical point of view below (which is not about how the extensions work or their features):
I don't recommend other popular alternatives like uBlocklist and Block Site because of another reason: They are HEAVILY vibe coded and this is the kind of shit that ruined Software Development for many people, me included. AI-"assisted" bullshit is horrendous and just destroyed the whole career. Not only that, but between every single LLM, the developers used Claude, by Anthropic; which is the most privacy invasive popular company I've seen thus far, Google included.
That is also more concerning than other models because of how integrated it is into deepfake generation, slop coding and AI-""art"". Antropo- from greek means human and -pic is a suffix for "in such manner". That being said, the fact a company promoting a product that replaces jobs, hobbies and makes us lose our humanity is named "human-like", is just absolutely absurd.
Highly recommend everyone to use this instead of other alternatives, including ethical and functionality ones.
This extension better supports wildcards and regular expressions. Not only that but it has a decent documentation about that and includes multiple features like lockdown, different block sets, easy "message from yourself" without custom code, timer and statistics. That was just amazing because I was able to block many domains I wished with more advanced filters.
I believe the only things I missed was search engine results blocks, which would be quite hard to implement. That would be very useful because I usually find domains I would not like to visit due to leech and psychological damage by searching. The extension does what it promises, though, and I can't ask for more.
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*My* ethical point of view below (which is not about how the extensions work or their features):
I don't recommend other popular alternatives like uBlocklist and Block Site because of another reason: They are HEAVILY vibe coded and this is the kind of shit that ruined Software Development for many people, me included. AI-"assisted" bullshit is horrendous and just destroyed the whole career. Not only that, but between every single LLM, the developers used Claude, by Anthropic; which is the most privacy invasive popular company I've seen thus far, Google included.
That is also more concerning than other models because of how integrated it is into deepfake generation, slop coding and AI-""art"". Antropo- from greek means human and -pic is a suffix for "in such manner". That being said, the fact a company promoting a product that replaces jobs, hobbies and makes us lose our humanity is named "human-like", is just absolutely absurd.