unbrainrot streak

Stay sharp. Don't rot. A Chrome extension that tracks a days-clean streak and resets it to zero the second you open a short-form feed.

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Designed and developed by lfillaz.

What it does

• Counts the number of consecutive days you stay away from brainrot feeds.
• Blocks the page whenever you open any of:
  • youtube.com/shorts/
  • instagram.com/reels/ (and /reel/)
  • tiktok.com (whole domain)
  • facebook.com/reel/ (and /reels/)
• Detects in-app navigation too (single-page apps), not just full page loads.

Learn page & languages

• A full Learn page (learn.html, opened from the popup) explains how short-form feeds hijack your brain, why it's a real addiction, the effect on focus/study, and how to quit — with a Your Reality tab showing your own stats.
• 16 languages with a switcher: English, Arabic (RTL), Somali, Korean, Chinese, German, Swedish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Swahili, French, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Hindi.
• The damage tracker counts clips watched, mouse scrolls, time wasted, and repeated clips (times you re-opened the same clip).

Escalating block flow

1. First open → the page is blocked with a message. Your streak stays intact.
2. Come back and open again → a warning shows how many days you're about to lose, with a Lose Anyway button.
3. Lose Anyway → the streak resets to 0, you're allowed to watch for up to an hour, and…
4. After 20 minutes of watching → a desktop notification: "What a shame that you're wasting your time here."

How the streak works

• The extension stores a single streakStartTimestamp.
• Current streak (days) = floor((now - streakStartTimestamp) / 24h).
• Choosing Lose Anyway sets streakStartTimestamp = now (reset) and bumps the reset counter.
• Because it's computed from the time difference, the count stays accurate even if the browser is closed.

Install (Load unpacked)

1. Open chrome://extensions in Chrome.
2. Toggle Developer mode (top-right).
3. Click Load unpacked.
4. Select this folder: unbrainrot streak.
5. Pin the flame icon to your toolbar and click it to see your streak.

Files

File	Purpose
manifest.json	MV3 config, permissions, popup, icons
background.js	URL detection, streak reset, page blocking
popup.html / popup.css / popup.js	Streak dashboard (brand UI)
blocked.html / blocked.css / blocked.js	Block screen shown on a reset
learn.html / learn.css / learn.js	Educational page (tabs + language switcher + stats)
i18n.js	16-language translation dictionary
tracker.js	Content script measuring scrolls, clips, time, repeats
icons/	Flame app icons (16/48/128)
docs/	Public website + privacy policy (served by GitHub Pages)
tools/build.ps1	Builds the clean Chrome Web Store zip into dist/
tools/generate-icons.ps1	Regenerates the PNG icons from the brand flame
PRIVACY.md	Privacy policy (source of docs/privacy.html)

Build the store package

Produces a clean dist/unbrainrot-streak-v<version>.zip containing only the files the extension needs — brand sources, screenshots, docs and tooling stay out of the upload.

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File ".\tools\build.ps1"

Regenerate icons

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File ".\tools\generate-icons.ps1"

Privacy

Everything stays in chrome.storage.local on your own device. No accounts, no servers, no analytics. Full details: PRIVACY.md (published at https://lfillaz.github.io/unbrainrot-streak/privacy.html).

License

Released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.

Credits

Designed and developed by lfillaz — GitHub @lfillaz · Bugcrowd @lfillaz

Testing tips

• Open each blocked URL and confirm the block screen appears and the streak reads 0.
• Navigate from a normal YouTube page into a Short to confirm SPA navigation is caught.
• To fake a long streak, set an older timestamp from the extension's service worker console:

  chrome.storage.local.set({ streakStartTimestamp: Date.now() - 47 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 });

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Days clean · Brain sharp.