

Cold Turkey
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Boost productivity by blocking websites, games, and applications with Cold Turkey. Once locked, blocks are hard to bypass. Install on Windows, macOS with browser extensions for multiple browsers. One-time purchase includes lifetime updates, ensuring privacy with locally stored data.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
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You can use it to set schedules to both block specific websites and particular apps on your desktop like say Steam. -1 since it still isn't that good or easy for creating a better experience for sites you cant block entirely (e.g. YouTube)
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The greatest blocking distractions software ever.
Cold turkey works generally but there is one concern I can't seem to get past. The application REQUIRES access to read and change user data on all websites. This really baffles me as there is no option to opt out of it and I cannot see why it should be required. This means the extension can access your password, credit card data etc. Why is there no option to turn this off, even for paying users? Other similar software such as leechblock does not require this level of invasive access. This to me is a major concern because you simply have to take the word of the developer that you can trust their use of your data, even when this type of access is not needed for the extension to function. The only option is to disable the extension temporarily every time you need to do something sensitive which is impractical as the extension eventually kills your browser if you do that (which it should, to prevent defeating the system). And it does not make sense to toggle on and off all the time. One simple solution would be to allow users opt out of this type of access and simply redirect to another url (e.g. custom "distraction blocked page" that can even be hard-coded into the extension) whenever the user tries to access a blocked page, as other distraction blockers do.
You can use it to set schedules to both block specific websites and particular apps on your desktop like say Steam. -1 since it still isn't that good or easy for creating a better experience for sites you cant block entirely (e.g. YouTube)
Easy to set up. These apps are sometimes easy to unblock, but this app makes it impossible to do so at all. Not that there isn't a way, but if you don't currently know it, I suggest you don't look into it.
Love it, great tool to block distracions.
Supports a limited variety of browsers..
It supports the main browsers, which wierd browser do you use?
Reply written Sep 21, 2023
Cold Turkey runs on Mac, but unfortunately it doesn't run on iPhone.
https://getcoldturkey.com/pricing/
Cold Turkey supports categories under Import – Website Categories, but the categories are not comprehensive.
https://getcoldturkey.com/support/user-guide/
Reply written Jan 2, 2022
Block a website in Cold Turkey. Disable the Cold Turkey extension in Safari. Cold Turkey will ask to re-enable the extension. It will start a 60-second timer. You can customize the duration of the timer. Navigate to the blocked website. Put Safari in the background but still visible. The timer will pause. The website will not block.
Reply written Feb 8, 2022
I tried running Cold Turkey as an administrator. Unfortunately, Frozen Turkey only logged out of the administrator account –– not any of the other accounts.
Reply written Sep 8, 2022
I bypassed Cold Turkey with the following command in Terminal:
while ; do killall Cold\ Turkey\ Blocker; done
https://linuxize.com/post/bash-while-loop/
Reply written Sep 10, 2022
Cold Turkey supports locking a block [0], but I wish that it supported a delay feature like Plucky [1].
[0] https://getcoldturkey.com/features/ [1] https://docs.pluckeye.net/delay
Reply written Nov 2, 2022
Under Settings – Blocking, Cold Turkey has a setting, "Block inactive browser tabs for blocked websites." I think that I actually want to block inactive windows but not inactive tabs. Because inactive windows could be visible, but inactive tabs would be occluded by the active tab.
Reply written Aug 7, 2023
Its an desktop applicatiopn not an app, why would it run on iphone -.-
Reply written Sep 21, 2023
@RagnarNagnarr Compare Cold Turkey to Freedom which runs on both desktop and phone:
https://freedom.to/downloads https://apps.apple.com/app/freedom-block-distractions/id1269788228
Reply written Sep 27, 2023