Block Instagram on Mac
The Reels feed is a time vortex. Sloth blocks instagram.com at the OS level so it never loads.
Instagram on desktop is a hidden time drain
Instagram on your Mac browser is just as addictive as the phone app. Stories, Reels, DMs, and the explore page are all accessible at instagram.com. When you're working on your laptop, it's one tab away.
How Sloth blocks Instagram
Sloth blocks instagram.com at three levels: DNS, firewall, and browser redirect. It works in every browser, can't be bypassed with incognito mode, and locked sessions keep it blocked until the timer ends. Instagram included in the "Social Media" preset category for one-tap blocking.
Schedule a social media detox
Set up a "social detox" schedule that blocks Instagram (plus Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook) every workday. It activates automatically, even if the Sloth app isn't open, because the daemon runs in the background.
Ibo Gonzales
productivity researcher and founder of sloth