RickStop: Anti-Doomscroll Lock

About

RickStop helps you take back your attention from infinite feeds.

It’s a privacy-first Chrome extension that detects doomscrolling patterns using scroll input only (timing + intensity) and interrupts “scroll trance” with a short hard lock (default: 10 minutes). No accounts, no tracking, no analytics, and no servers.

How it works (no content reading)
RickStop does not read posts, messages, or page content. It only monitors scroll behavior to recognize repetitive, infinite-feed scrolling. When your selected sensitivity threshold is reached, the current site is locked with a full-screen overlay until the timer ends.

Key features
• Hard Lock overlay (10 minutes by default, configurable). No in-page “unlock” button by design.
• Optional Soft Nudges: a quick warning before a lock so you can self-correct.
• Sensitivity levels (1–20) to tune for mouse wheel, trackpad, or touchscreen.
• Slow-scroll protection (low levels) that gradually accumulates “scroll fatigue” to catch endless slow scrolling without punishing normal reading.
• Warmup gate (high levels) to reduce false positives by requiring sustained patterns.
• Local-only stats (estimated minutes saved, streak). Stored only on your device.

Where it runs
RickStop can run on popular infinite-scroll social and video sites (for example, YouTube and Instagram on the web). You can also control where it runs with a whitelist (supports patterns like *.example.com).

Privacy
No accounts. No tracking. No analytics. No remote servers. Only minimal settings and lock state are stored locally using Chrome storage.

Permissions
• storage: saves your settings, timers, and local-only stats
• site access (host permissions): allows RickStop to run on the sites you choose and display the lock overlay