Antechamber

A small pause before YouTube distractions.

It doesn’t block YouTube — it interrupts autopilot. Open something distracting and you get a calm 5-second gate: “Is this worth your time?” It learns what you actually care about, on your device.

Now live on the Chrome Web Store.

Threshold
Is this worth your time?
“Top 10 epic fails 2024” · DramaAlert
← Go back
Watch anyway5
Marked wrong? It’s productive →

Tags every video

Each video and channel gets a quiet productive / distraction tag, right in your feed.

Gates the distractions

A short, dismissible pause with a countdown — you decide, then go back or watch on.

Learns on your device

Calibrates to your real homepage and adapts to your corrections. No servers, no tracking.

In your feed

✓ productive
✗ distraction

Now live on the Chrome Web Store

Free, open source, and fully on-device. Install it in one click.

Or ⭐ the GitHub repo to follow along.