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Pause distracting websites, see local visit estimates, and browse deliberately. Free, open source, and private. Stop Wasting Time is now Samay. A short pause helps you choose what happens before the next scroll. Choose the websites where you want a pause. Use an everyday or study/work starter list, or add your own sites. No account or questionnaire is required. Put a visit in perspective After at least three completed visits, Samay estimates a typical visit from recent history on your device. The estimate is a prediction, never a browsing budget. A rotating, illustrated comparison relates that time to reading, walking, learning, creating, connecting with people, everyday care, rest or time outside. Each comparison explains its assumptions. The library has 273 separate illustrations with a varied cast and viewpoints. Passive entertainment and trivia stay out of the pause. See what repeated visits could add up to 37 minutes every day would total 225 hours and 5 minutes in a year, about 28 eight-hour days. These week/year comparisons are explicitly hypothetical and optional. Choose how you pause Type a short acknowledgement of the activity and predicted minutes. Add a purpose, put a few words in order, take a quiet pause, or use strict blocking. The comparison stays fixed while you type. Copy and paste are blocked only in this challenge. Understand your browsing The toolbar popup shows counted time for the current visit. Today has a seven-day trend, today's website totals and recent visits. Activity lets you inspect, correct, export or back up your history. Website schedules, reminders, goals and timed breaks are optional. Private by default Samay records website names and counted visit times for the sites you choose. Predictions run locally. It does not read page content or send your history to the developer. Illustrations are bundled files, with no image-generation requests while you browse. There are no ads, accounts or paid features. Optional Chrome settings sync sends rules, reminders, focus hours and goals through your Chrome account, never visit history. Your settings stay yours Samay follows your system's light or dark appearance, with an optional override. Updating the existing Store item preserves valid website rules, saved history and preferences. A thank-you welcome introduces the new name and feel. Free and open-source licensed. Samay means time in Hindi. Privacy: https://gist.github.com/SK-0112/e201559a5621b62fe0fd22382d042169#file-samay-privacy-md Support: https://gist.github.com/SK-0112/e201559a5621b62fe0fd22382d042169#file-samay-support-md Release notes Samay 1.29.2 fixes missing artwork on Today and before the first visit prediction. Today now has a prominent illustrated perspective card with explicit assumptions. Unsupported cooking comparisons are excluded. Timed activity blocks show dynamic leftover time, with approximate wording for close matches. Existing website rules, history, privacy settings and all 273 illustration files are preserved. No new permissions.