How to Block Twitch on Chrome

Live streams have no end, which makes Twitch easy to leave running in a tab. Redirect blocks it during focus time and makes opening it a deliberate choice.

Add to Chrome, free to start

3 steps

Block Twitch 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 entertwitch.tv
3
Choose how pauses work
Pick pause lengths and a task to finish first. Solve math. It breaks the autopilot of reopening a stream.

Tips for Twitch

Make it stick

Schedule the rule for work hours and weeknights before a deadline.
If you watch one creator for learning, add their channel as an exception.
When a pause ends, any open Twitch tab is redirected, so a stream cannot keep running in the background.

Redirect

twitch.tvBlocking

Sends you to your Focus dashboard

Solve math. It breaks the autopilot of reopening a stream.