Viking Focus version history - 11 versions
Viking Focus by The Reduce Digital Distraction Project
Viking Focus version history - 11 versions
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Latest version
Version 4.0
Released Sep 13, 2025 - 142.04 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later, android 120.0 and laterHi folks,
this update introduces site-specific accountability features. What does that mean? Well it means that you can e.g. add delay to change settings on YouTube.com, without adding delay to change settings on google.com.
NEW ACCOUNTABILITY FEATURES
Site-specific accountability
The settings for delay or auto-saving settings are now site-specific, so your settings for e.g. YouTube.com can be different from google.com.
Makes it possible to show/hide features without it becoming the default
By default, the extension automatically saves your settings when you change them.
However, you might want to temporarily show e.g. recommended videos on YouTube without that becoming your new default.
This is now possible: In settings you can now disable auto-saving of settings. If you do, you will need to explicitly click 'Save settings' before settings are saved.
MINOR IMPROVEMENTS & BUG FIXES
- YouTube: auto-playing previews are now (finally!) automatically disabled if you hide recommended videos
- LinkedIn: hiding the feed now (finally) only hides it on the landing page
- Settings popup: added a 'close' button to the settings popup for more intuitive navigation
- On/off switches: these have been removed as they serve little purpose in practice
- Nicer styling of delay timer settings
Cheers,
Ulrik & the ReDD Team
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Version 3.4
Released Sep 9, 2025 - 138.49 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later, android 120.0 and laterHi folks,
this update includes bug fixes and improvements:- on YouTube, corrected selectors for hiding video thumbnails, view counts, and search suggestions so this should now work again
- when you hide things, the checkboxes now give you a visual feedback when the app is working on hiding content
Remember the app is open source -- keep the suggestions coming at https://github.com/ulyngs/mindshield-open-source
Cheers,
Ulrik & the ReDD TeamSource code released under Custom License
Version 3.3
Released Aug 18, 2025 - 137.99 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later, android 120.0 and laterHi folks,
this update makes it possible to hide google's AI Overview.
Cheers,
Ulrik & the ReDD TeamSource code released under Custom License
Version 3.2
Released Aug 17, 2025 - 137.07 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later, android 120.0 and laterHi folks,
this minor update makes design tweaks to the new app icon.
Cheers,
Ulrik & the ReDD TeamSource code released under Custom License
Version 3.1
Released Aug 15, 2025 - 190.77 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later, android 120.0 and laterHi folks,
this version... drumroll... changes the name! Welcome to... VikingFocus! :D
Also a number of bug fixes:
- you can now again blur / black out video thumbnails on YouTube
- improves FB newsfeed selector on mobile
Cheers,
Ulrik & the ReDD TeamSource code released under Custom License
Version 3.0
Released Aug 13, 2025 - 144.36 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later, android 120.0 and laterHi folks,
this update improves the app's usability and brings important code improvements that improves the reliability of the app (the under-the-hood improvements are so big that we're calling this 3.0 even though you might notice much difference... :) All praise @kasnder!).
Enjoy!- Ulrik & the ReDD Team
Source code released under Custom License
Version 2.6
Released Jun 10, 2025 - 148.42 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterHi folks,
with this update:- you can temporarily show a custom element you've hidden, so it's easy to see what effects your hiding has
- fixes a bug that caused the extension to sometimes become unresponsive
Enjoy!
Best,
UlrikSource code released under Custom License
Version 2.4.1
Released May 8, 2025 - 147.62 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterHi folks,
this version makes it easier to finish selecting custom elements to hide: in addition to clicking 'done', you can now also simply press the Escape key.
Enjoy!
UlrikSource code released under Custom License
Version 2.4
Released May 4, 2025 - 147.27 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterHi folks,
If you hide more than one custom element at a time, you can now undo hiding of them all sequentially.
Cheers,
UlrikSource code released under Custom License
Version 2.3
Released May 4, 2025 - 147.16 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterHi folks,
this update makes it much easier to select custom elements to hide, by allowing you to hide multiple elements after another, easily undo, and mark 'done' when you're done. :)
Also improves sizing in the delay message.
Enjoy!- Ulrik
Source code released under Custom License
Version 2.2
Released Apr 27, 2025 - 135.17 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterSource code released under Custom License