Solved: Blocking of websites when browser not active

Hello FocusMe Team,

I really love your app, especially the fact that it is very hard to cheat and disable.
However, I have unfortunately found a way to cheat on my video media limits (YouTube specifically) by playing the media on my monitor and then clicking a non-blocked process on my laptop screen. This allows me to use only a couple of seconds of my limit on opening the video and occasional pausing it, while the video itself can be of various lengths, sometimes longer than my 40min/day allowed time.
I was wondering if there is a way that the app could catch this? I imagine it would be difficult, but perhaps a solution would be to continue counting down the timer if the app catches YouTube playing a video in the background.
I will note that this exploit only works on video-related blocks, things like social media or gaming (which require constant interaction) can’t be used this way.

Again, thanks for the great app!

Hi AVR,

Thanks for the really nice feedback!

I guess you might have missed rule number 2 :slight_smile:

However I actually was just working on this issue and it is solved since version 6.5.3.5 when using our browser addons. :smiley:

This feature has been implemented in FocusMe. :white_check_mark:

Background browser tracking and blocking of websites when browser is not active is now supported.

This topic is now marked as solved. Thank you for your feedback!