How to Block Amazon on Chrome and Stop Impulse Shopping

Browsing Amazon is a quiet way to lose time and money. Redirect adds a moment between the urge and the cart: before a pause you write down why you need it, and your past reasons are shown back to you.

Add to Chrome, free to start

3 steps

Block Amazon in under a minute

1
Install Redirect
Add Redirect to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store. Blocking one site is free and needs no account.
2
Add a rule
Open the dashboard, choose whole site and enteramazon.com
3
Choose how pauses work
Pick pause lengths and a task to finish first. Write a reason. Seeing what you wrote last time is a strong check on impulse buys.

Tips for Amazon

Make it stick

Add your country store too, for example amazon.co.uk or amazon.in, as a separate rule.
Allow a 15 minute pause for planned purchases, with a daily limit of one.
Read your pause reasons on the Focus page once a week to spot patterns.

Redirect

amazon.comBlocking

Sends you to your Focus dashboard

Write a reason. Seeing what you wrote last time is a strong check on impulse buys.