students
lockdown modeexam week, one job. flip on lockdown and only your notes and the school portal load. everything else goes dark, with no off switch until the timer runs out.
free forever. actually.
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, DMs included, and makes giving up cost more than staying focused.
add to browser, it's free
free for life. no account, no tracking, no paywall waiting at the end.
reels blocked
38 focused minutes today
this isn't it.
habit brought you here, not intention. let's point that energy somewhere real.
x.com
7 visits stopped today
take me somewhere better
i actually need this site
hours vanish fifteen seconds at a time. because thousands of engineers are paid to make sure they do. North is the counterweight, bringing you back to the moment.
everything the paid blockers charge for.
and the things they don't have.
oh, did i mention it's free?
shorts blocked
no unlock. that's the point.
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
messages only. on every network.
Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, X. your DMs work like nothing happened, while the feeds, Explore and trending simply stop existing. each site opens 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, like guitar, coding or calculus, and everything else quietly disappears from feeds and search. the sidebar, 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 unlock journal
every unlock costs 20 honest words to future you. reading them back stings. that's the point.
lockdown mode
exam week: your allowlist or nothing, for hours you can't undo.
a wait that means it
a breathing timer that only runs while you stay on the page.
progress, counted
every dodged distraction and focused minute, shown honestly.
completely private
no account, no servers, no tracking. it all stays in your browser.
you've probably tried a blocker before.
so had we. here's why they didn't stick.
they paywall the parts that work
strict mode, scheduling, more than five sites: $40 a year, please. North gives every feature to everyone, free, forever. there is no premium version of self-control.
they switch off in two clicks
a blocker you can disable mid-craving is a to-do list, not a blocker. in North, giving up takes a focused wait plus 20 honest words about why. most urges don't survive it.
they block too much or too little
all of Instagram or none of it. North is surgical: DMs stay, feeds go. the reel a friend sends still plays. youtube keeps the topics you chose and loses the rest.
built for the moment you open a new tab on autopilot.
it's a browser extension, so it lives where the work does, on your laptop. whatever pulls you off task, one feature carries most of the weight for you.
deep workers
focus sessionsstart a focus session and the whole web that isn't your work seals shut until it ends. the "quick check" that eats forty minutes stops being an option.
quitting short videos
shorts, goneShorts, Reels and TikTok are blocked as a category: hidden in feeds, dead by URL, never unlockable. the one a friend sends still plays. the rest just ends.
tried blockers before
the unlock waityou turned the last one off in a weak moment. North makes that moment cost a breathing timer and 20 honest words. slow, present, hard to fake. this time it holds.
free for life. that's the deal.
no subscription, no trial, no "unlock strict mode for $4.99". every feature, for everyone, forever. blockers that charge for the features that actually work are part of the problem.
North runs on tips instead. if it bought you back an evening, you can toss a coin in the jar. if it didn't, you owe nothing, and that will never change.
♥ leave a tipone-time, any amount, no account needed. the tip jar is the entire business model.
questions, answered straight.
is North really free forever?
yes. every feature, for everyone, always. no trial, no premium tier, no feature caps coming later. it runs on optional tips, and that's the whole model.
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 that only counts while you're actually on the page. switch tabs, switch apps, even click away, and it restarts. then you write at least 20 honest words to future you about why you need the site. no pasting, no keyboard mash. if you can't fill 20 words, you probably didn't need it.
is my data private?
completely. no account, no analytics, no network calls. everything North knows lives in your browser's local storage.
what's lockdown mode?
exam-week mode. you pick a short allowlist, like your docs and your school portal, set a duration up to 24 hours, and everything else on the internet stops loading. there is deliberately no off switch: not the challenge, not a setting, nothing. it ends when the clock ends.
which browsers does it work on?
Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc and other Chromium browsers, plus Firefox. one extension, same features everywhere. allow it in Incognito and private windows so the blocks hold everywhere; North will remind you.
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 browser, it's freeworks on Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc and Firefox. free for life.