Students
Exam season and a TikTok habit don't mix. Feeds blocked during study hours, the group chat untouched.
Free Chrome extension
Your attention has a direction.
Find your true north.
North blocks Shorts, Reels, TikTok and the sites that eat your day. It keeps the parts you actually need, like your DMs, and pairs every block with a buddy who keeps you honest.
Add to Chrome, it's free
No account. No tracking. Everything stays on your device.
Reels blocked
38 focused minutes today
NORI
This isn't the way.
Habit brought you here, not intention. Let's point that energy somewhere real.
x.com
7 visits stopped today
Take me somewhere better
I genuinely need this site
Hours vanish fifteen seconds at a time. Not because you're weak, but because thousands of engineers are paid to make sure they do. North is the counterweight: a few seconds of friction, right where the habit lives.
Everything the paid blockers do.
And the things they don't.
The big one
Short videos, gone.
Shorts, Reels, TikTok, Spotlight. Hidden from every feed, unreachable by URL, and never unlockable. The endless feed finally ends.
dude.
you NEED to see this one
▶ instagram.com/reel/x7…
Stay human
The one your friend sent still plays.
A reel opened from a DM or a pasted link gets five minutes. Just that one. The feed behind it stays sealed. No other blocker does this.
DMs open
Feed blocked
Keep your people
Instagram, messages only.
Your DMs work like nothing happened. The feed, Explore and Reels simply stop existing, and instagram.com goes straight to your inbox.
guitar
Fingerstyle basics
DRAMA, explained
Barre chords in 10 minutes
I bought 100 mystery boxes
A practice routine that works
Reacting to reaction videos
YouTube, on your terms
Only what you came for.
Pick your topics — guitar, coding, calculus — and everything else quietly disappears from feeds and search. The home page, related videos and comments can go too.
Schedules & budgets
Block 9 to 5, or allow 20 minutes a day. Midnight resets the clock.
Keyword blocking
Stop pages by what they're about, on every site at once.
18+, always blocked
Built in, on for everyone, and there is no unlock path. Ever.
The honest unlock
A breathing timer, then a true sentence typed word for word.
Progress, counted
Every dodged distraction and focused minute, shown honestly.
Completely private
No account, no servers, no tracking. It all stays in your browser.
Try the honest moment.
This is what it takes to unlock a blocked site in North. Type it exactly.
I am choosing distraction over my own goals right now
Three minutes to set up. Months of hours back.
1
Install North
Add it to Chrome. The settings page opens and nothing is blocked until you choose it.
2
Pick your protections
Block short videos, choose your sites, set schedules and budgets, add the keywords you can't unsee.
3
Nori holds the line
Every blocked visit is a small win, counted and shown. Changing your mind takes a wait and an honest sentence.
Built for the moment your thumb moves on its own.
Deep workers
One focus session seals everything until it ends. The "quick check" that costs 40 minutes stops happening.
Anyone quitting short videos
Reels and Shorts never end, so North ends them. The one a friend sends still plays. Wave the rest goodbye.
People who've tried blockers
You turned the last one off in a weak moment. North makes that moment slow, present and honest. This time it holds.
The honest fine print: North has no accounts, no servers and no tracking. Your settings and stats live in your browser and nowhere else. And yes, you can always uninstall it. North's job is to interrupt habit, not to imprison you.
Questions, answered straight.
Is North free?
Yes, completely free. No account, no credit card, no catch.
Does it block YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels?
Yes, as a category. Hidden in feeds, unreachable by URL, never unlockable. TikTok can be blocked entirely with one switch.
Can I still watch the reel my friend sent me?
Yes. Opened from a DM, another app or a pasted link, that single item plays for 5 minutes. Swiping to the next one is blocked, and you get at most one new pass every 10 minutes.
What stops me from just turning it off?
A breathing timer you have to stay present for. Switch tabs or apps and it restarts. Then you type a sentence like "I am choosing distraction over my own goals right now", word for word, no pasting. If the sentence doesn't feel true, you'll close the tab instead. That's the design.
Is my data private?
Completely. No account, no analytics, no network calls. Everything North knows lives in your browser's local storage.
What about Incognito?
Chrome requires you to allow extensions in Incognito manually. North reminds you until you do, because distractions love a side door.
The feed will survive without you.
Your goals might not survive the feed. Install North and find out what a day with fewer detours feels like.
Add to Chrome, it's freeAvailable for Chrome and Chromium browsers. Edge, Brave and Arc work too.