A ginger cat has appeared in Chrome, encouraging users to take a break from social media

Katerina Melnychenko
Katerina Melnychenko Deputy Editor-in-Chief
A ginger cat has appeared in Chrome, encouraging users to take a break from social media
The ginger cat in the Cat Gatekeeper extension, which helps you take a break from social media
A new extension called Cat Gatekeeper has been released for Google Chrome, designed to help users spend less time ‘getting stuck’ on social media. If a user spends too much time online, a ginger cat appears on the screen and blocks access for five minutes.

This was reported by the “Telegram News Service”, citing a post on X.

An extension called Cat Gatekeeper has been released for Google Chrome, designed for those who want to spend less time on social media.

If a user spends too long online, a ginger cat appears on the screen.

Cat Gatekeeper then blocks access for 5 minutes, forcing the user to take a break.

The extension is presented as a simple tool to combat the habit of constantly scrolling through social media and spending long periods of time staring at the screen.

As reported by ThePublic, Meta has updated its parental control tools: parents can now see the topics their teenagers have discussed with Meta AI over the past week on Facebook, Messenger or Instagram.

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