The site is still there.
It just isn't free anymore.
Take Control puts a gate in front of the sites you chose to block. Nothing is locked forever — you can always get through. You just have to mean it. That half-second of friction is the whole product, and it is enough.
Launching shortly. Free, and it always will be.
you asked to be stopped here
youtube.com
What is 14 × 7 ?
or hold the button for 20 seconds
Try the gate.
This is the real thing, not a picture of it. Solve it and you're through — same as you would be in the browser.
Notice what happens in your head while you do it. That pause is where the decision goes from reflex back to yours. Sites you mark extra hard ask for more.
you asked to be stopped here
reddit.com
no maths? hold it down instead.
Three moving parts. That's all it is.
No streaks to protect, no points to earn, no coach checking in on you. The whole design is one idea: make the wrong reach cost something, and give the moment back to you.
the block
Pick what you block, once.
Preset lists — adult, gambling, social, news — or type in your own domains. The choice happens when you're clear-headed. The gate enforces it when you aren't.
the escalation
Some sites need a bigger toll.
Mark a site extra hard and the gate stops being a formality: longer holds, harder problems. You know which site this is for. Everybody does.
the replacement
Blank space, filled on purpose.
Every new tab is one sentence and one search box instead of a wall of shortcuts. Walk away and your own pictures fade in behind it — the thing you're actually doing all this for.
It watches every tab. It tells nobody.
Chrome makes it ask for access to every site, because you might block any site. Here is exactly what it does with that.
No account. There is nothing to sign up for.
No server. The extension makes no network requests at all.
Your pictures are downscaled in your browser and stored on your machine.
Uninstalling it deletes everything it ever kept.
The whole policy is one page: the extension's privacy policy.
You already know which tab.
Put something in front of it. Two minutes to set up, and then you never think about it again — until the moment you need it to be there.
Launching shortly. Free, and it always will be.