Block distracting websites with Jiyuu. Jiyuu is a free website blocker for Windows 11 for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, and Firefox browsers. Block URLs and groups, lock with password or timer, prevent uninstall, detect emulators, require incognito, and view detailed analytics.
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Jiyuu is a free strict and flexible website blocker for windows, made using electron, nsis, websocket, powershell, and wxt.
It has rich features such as:
- block url and keywords
- create multiple block groups
- different types of blocking a website (cover, grayscale, blur, mute)
- locking block groups (password, timelimit, random texts)
- dashboard – see websites you spent the most time in a day/week/month
- uninstall prevention
- banning unsupported browsers / android emulators
- persistent / auto restart that prevents you from cheating (super strict)
- supports multiple browsers (chromium-based and mozilla-based)
- export/import urls/keywords
- app updater
- open-source
I initially made this since I planned on studying system design/architecture, websockets, and scripting (and also to boost my productivity), but figured I can also ship it to learn how to build production-level apps (and to see how nsis/installer wizard setup works).
The desktop app communicates to the extension via websockets (three-way connectivity between UI, server, extension). Now If that connection is severed and there are active blocks, the browser will be stopped in a 60-sec delay to prevent users from cheating. (visit my repo if you want to see how it works, it is programmatically possible aside from using native messaging)
**Also built an uninstaller in any case users locked themselves with the app: https://github.com/xinzhao2627/j...