ResistGate — Website Blocker with Typing Challenge

Tracking since Apr 11, 2026.

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• Jun 10, 2026
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  declarativeNetRequest, storage, alarms

  declarativeNetRequest, storage, alarms, tabs

• May 5, 2026
  description

  ResistGate blocks distracting sites like Reddit, X, YouTube, and Instagram, but instead of locking you out completely, it makes you earn access with a typing challenge. It creates a pause before distraction so you can decide intentionally instead of browsing on autopilot.
  
  What’s new in 1.2.0:
  - Graduated challenges: Choose Easy (short sequence), Moderate (sentence prompt), or Hard (five-paragraph challenge). Build discipline without burning out.
  - Send feedback: Direct feedback button in the popup and settings page to help shape what comes next.
  - Cleaner first-run experience: New welcome page that gets you blocking faster.
  
  Core features:
  - Block any distracting website
  - Add a typing challenge before access (choose your difficulty)
  - Set temporary access windows
  - Schedule blocking for work or study hours
  - Track resisted attempts locally
  - No account required
  - Your focus data stays on your device
  
  Built for people who want real friction, not another blocker they disable in two clicks.

  🚧 A speed bump for your bad internet habits.
  
  ResistGate adds a typing challenge before distracting sites, so you stop opening YouTube, Reddit or X on autopilot.
  
  Most website blockers are binary — allowed or blocked. ResistGate lives in the middle. It adds intentional friction before the sites you want to resist, forcing a pause and a conscious decision instead of autopilot scrolling. Built for people who don't want hard blocks, just enough friction to resist.
  
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  ❓ WHY RESISTGATE?
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  You've tried distraction blockers before. You disabled them in 10 seconds.
  
  The problem isn't willpower. It's that hard blocks feel like punishment, so your brain rebels and bypasses them instantly. ResistGate is different. It doesn't lock you out — it makes you earn access. That small moment of friction is enough to break the autopilot loop and let you decide intentionally.
  
  This is intentional browsing, not a prison.
  
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  ⚙️ HOW IT WORKS
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  - Add any site you want to resist — YouTube, Reddit, X, TikTok, Instagram, or any URL.
  - Choose your typing challenge phrase and difficulty.
  - Try to open the site.
  - ResistGate intercepts and shows the challenge.
  - Type the phrase to continue — or close the tab and get back to work.
  - Either way, you made a conscious decision instead of a mindless one.
  
  No accounts. No cloud sync required. No bloat.
  
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  🎯 BUILT FOR
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  - Developers and engineers who loop between Reddit, Hacker News and YouTube while coding.
  - Students who need to protect study sessions from TikTok and Instagram rabbit holes.
  - Remote workers who lack the structure of an office to stay on task.
  - Indie hackers and founders who doomscroll X and Product Hunt instead of shipping.
  - Anyone practicing digital minimalism or trying to stop procrastination for good.
  - People who want deep work sessions without nuking their entire internet access.
  
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  ✅ FEATURES
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  - Add any website as a guarded site.
  - Custom typing challenge phrases.
  - Difficulty levels — short phrases to long ones.
  - Enable / disable on a schedule.
  - "Back away" option — close the tab without completing the challenge.
  - Simple weekly stats: gates triggered, times you resisted, top distracted site.
  - Clean, fast, lightweight — no impact on browser performance.
  
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  🚫 THIS IS NOT ANOTHER PRODUCTIVITY EXTENSION
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  There are dozens of focus extensions and distraction blockers out there. ResistGate does one thing: it adds intentional friction before the sites that pull you in on autopilot.
  
  No motivational fluff. No gamified streaks you don't need. Just a clean, purposeful speed bump between you and your worst internet habits.
  
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  🔒 PRIVACY
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  ResistGate does not sell your browsing data. Your guarded sites, challenge settings and focus stats are stored locally on your device. Nothing is sent to external servers without your explicit consent.
  
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  🧪 INSTALL AND TEST IT FOR 7 DAYS
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  Add ResistGate to Chrome, guard one site you keep opening on autopilot, and see what happens the next time you reach for it out of habit.
  
  Most users are surprised by how often they close the tab instead of completing the challenge. That moment — that small pause — is the whole product.
  
  ResistGate — intentional browsing for people who want to stop procrastination, reduce digital noise, and build better internet habits through friction, not force.

• May 5, 2026
  short_description

  Block distracting websites. Earn back access with a typing challenge instead of being locked out.

  Add a typing challenge before distracting sites so you stop browsing on autopilot. A speed bump for your bad internet habits.

• Apr 27, 2026
  description

  ResistGate makes it genuinely harder to visit distracting websites.
  
  Not a simple toggle you bypass in two seconds. When you try to open a blocked 
  site, you land on a typing challenge, five paragraphs, 100% accuracy required, 
  paste disabled. You either earn access or you close the tab. That's the whole 
  point.
  
  The premise is behavioral: friction changes behavior. A 12-second countdown 
  breaks an unconscious reflex. Five paragraphs of deliberate typing force a real 
  decision. ResistGate is not a nanny filter. It's an accountability layer you 
  configure for yourself.
  
  ---
  
  WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE
  - Block any site instantly, no account required.
  - Schedule-based blocking (days + time window).
  - Typing challenge before access (5 paragraphs, 100% accuracy, paste disabled).
  - Configurable temporary access windows with auto re-block.
  - Manual override with a 10–15s delay (configurable).
  - Earn Access system, pair distracting sites with work requirements. A site only unlocks after you've put in time on your work timer, or after a specific time of day.
  - Daily resistance badge + per-site visit counters.
  - Toolbar quick-add for blocking the current tab.
  
  ---
  
  WHAT PRO ADDS
  - Commitment Mode (1–24h), total lockout, no override, no challenge, no exit.
  - Strict Mode, locks your configuration during focus hours so you can't weaken your own rules mid-session.
  - Override cooldown system, progressive delays + temporary lockouts after repeated overrides, so impulse-breaking gets harder the more you try.
  - Behavioral friction precheck, task intent input, timed wait gate, custom challenge prompts before you even see the typing challenge.
  - Intention Page, per-site personal goal reminder + optional guided  4-7-8 breathing exercise.
  - 7-day analytics dashboard, blocked attempts, overrides, top domains.
  - Weekly Focus Score, calculated over a rolling window, compared week-over-week so you can actually measure your discipline.
  
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  PRICING
  Free — $0, always
  Pro Monthly — $3.99 / month
  Pro Yearly — $29.99 / year (save ~37%)
  Pro Lifetime — $49.99 one-time
  
  Pro activates through orlandoascanio.com. No account inside the extension required. Pay once, extension activates automatically.
  
  ---
  
  ResistGate is built for people who already know they have a problem with distraction and want a tool that doesn't let them cheat their way out. 
  If you want something you can easily disable, this is the wrong extension.

  ResistGate blocks distracting sites like Reddit, X, YouTube, and Instagram, but instead of locking you out completely, it makes you earn access with a typing challenge. It creates a pause before distraction so you can decide intentionally instead of browsing on autopilot.
  
  What’s new in 1.2.0:
  - Graduated challenges: Choose Easy (short sequence), Moderate (sentence prompt), or Hard (five-paragraph challenge). Build discipline without burning out.
  - Send feedback: Direct feedback button in the popup and settings page to help shape what comes next.
  - Cleaner first-run experience: New welcome page that gets you blocking faster.
  
  Core features:
  - Block any distracting website
  - Add a typing challenge before access (choose your difficulty)
  - Set temporary access windows
  - Schedule blocking for work or study hours
  - Track resisted attempts locally
  - No account required
  - Your focus data stays on your device
  
  Built for people who want real friction, not another blocker they disable in two clicks.

• Apr 27, 2026
  short_description

  Block distracting sites. Earn access with a typing challenge. ResistGate builds real discipline, not just temporary barriers.

  Block distracting websites. Earn back access with a typing challenge instead of being locked out.

• Apr 27, 2026
  name

  ResistGate: Website Blocker + Typing Challenge

  ResistGate — Website Blocker with Typing Challenge

• Apr 21, 2026
  description

  ResistGate puts friction between you and the sites that waste your time, so, when you do open them, it's a choice, not a reflex.
  
  Most site blockers are easy to work around. A hard block stops you for ten seconds. You disable it. You're back on Reddit. ResistGate takes a different approach: rather than a hard wall, it creates a meaningful pause. You decide how much resistance you need. You decide when pushing through is actually worth it.
  
  Students use it to protect study sessions from social media. Professional use it to guard deep work from reflexive browsing. If you've ever opened Instagram on autopilot and lost 45 minutes, this is for you.
  
  How it works
  
  Add any domain to your blocklist, reddit.com, youtube.com, x.com, or anything that pulls you off task. Every visit to a blocked site redirects to ResistGate's challenge page.
  
  To unlock access, complete a short typing challenge. Copy a passage accurately, around 60 seconds. Long enough for the impulse to pass. Short enough that if you genuinely need the site, it's worth it. Temporary access opens for a window you control, then closes automatically. The next visit starts fresh.
  
  A manual override is available too, with a built-in 10–15 second pause. Enough time to reconsider.
  
  Free
  
  Everything you need to build the habit:
  
  • Unlimited blocked sites
  • Typing challenge gate on every blocked visit
  • Configurable access window (minutes of your choice)
  • Manual override with a deliberate pause
  • Schedule-based blocking (set specific hours and days)
  
  No account required. No data sent anywhere.
  
  
  PRO — $5.99/month · $34.99/year · $79 lifetime
  
  Pro adds the layer that turns a habit into a system you can measure.
  
  Analytics Dashboard: see total blocked attempts, override frequency, and your most-visited blocked domains. Know where your attention actually goes.
  
  Weekly Discipline Report: a scored summary of each focus week with trend data and personalized feedback. Track whether you're improving week over week.
  
  Strict Mode: lock your settings while a schedule is active. When Strict Mode is on, you can't disable blocking or change settings until the session ends, for moments when willpower alone isn't enough.
  
  Behavioral Friction Presets: choose Light, Balanced, or Strict. Add countdowns before the challenge, require a written reason for visiting, set a minimum challenge time, or write your own custom prompt.
  
  Privacy
  
  All data stays on your device. Your blocklist, settings, access history, and analytics are stored in Chrome's local storage only. ResistGate makes no outbound requests during normal use, your browsing is never logged, tracked, or transmitted to any server.

  ResistGate makes it genuinely harder to visit distracting websites.
  
  Not a simple toggle you bypass in two seconds. When you try to open a blocked 
  site, you land on a typing challenge, five paragraphs, 100% accuracy required, 
  paste disabled. You either earn access or you close the tab. That's the whole 
  point.
  
  The premise is behavioral: friction changes behavior. A 12-second countdown 
  breaks an unconscious reflex. Five paragraphs of deliberate typing force a real 
  decision. ResistGate is not a nanny filter. It's an accountability layer you 
  configure for yourself.
  
  ---
  
  WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE
  - Block any site instantly, no account required.
  - Schedule-based blocking (days + time window).
  - Typing challenge before access (5 paragraphs, 100% accuracy, paste disabled).
  - Configurable temporary access windows with auto re-block.
  - Manual override with a 10–15s delay (configurable).
  - Earn Access system, pair distracting sites with work requirements. A site only unlocks after you've put in time on your work timer, or after a specific time of day.
  - Daily resistance badge + per-site visit counters.
  - Toolbar quick-add for blocking the current tab.
  
  ---
  
  WHAT PRO ADDS
  - Commitment Mode (1–24h), total lockout, no override, no challenge, no exit.
  - Strict Mode, locks your configuration during focus hours so you can't weaken your own rules mid-session.
  - Override cooldown system, progressive delays + temporary lockouts after repeated overrides, so impulse-breaking gets harder the more you try.
  - Behavioral friction precheck, task intent input, timed wait gate, custom challenge prompts before you even see the typing challenge.
  - Intention Page, per-site personal goal reminder + optional guided  4-7-8 breathing exercise.
  - 7-day analytics dashboard, blocked attempts, overrides, top domains.
  - Weekly Focus Score, calculated over a rolling window, compared week-over-week so you can actually measure your discipline.
  
  ---
  
  PRICING
  Free — $0, always
  Pro Monthly — $3.99 / month
  Pro Yearly — $29.99 / year (save ~37%)
  Pro Lifetime — $49.99 one-time
  
  Pro activates through orlandoascanio.com. No account inside the extension required. Pay once, extension activates automatically.
  
  ---
  
  ResistGate is built for people who already know they have a problem with distraction and want a tool that doesn't let them cheat their way out. 
  If you want something you can easily disable, this is the wrong extension.

• Apr 21, 2026
  short_description

  Block distracting sites. Unlock them only when you've earned it. ResistGate builds real discipline, one challenge at a time.

  Block distracting sites. Earn access with a typing challenge. ResistGate builds real discipline, not just temporary barriers.

• Apr 21, 2026
  name

  ResistGate

  ResistGate: Website Blocker + Typing Challenge

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