How to block Reddit (or keep it and filter it)
To block Reddit on a computer, add reddit.com to a site-blocking extension in Chrome, or to your hosts file to block it in every browser. On a phone, delete the app and block the website with Screen Time or Digital Wellbeing, and if it’s only part of Reddit you can’t stand, you can keep the site and filter that part out instead.
Updated November 2, 2026Block Reddit on a computer
The quickest way is a site-blocking extension in Chrome, like BlockSite or LeechBlock NG. Add it from the Chrome Web Store, open it, and add reddit.com. Then check that old.reddit.com is blocked too, since it’s a separate address. To make it work in Incognito, go to Extensions, then Manage extensions, click Details on the blocker, and turn on Allow in Incognito.
To block Reddit in every browser on the computer, add these lines to your hosts file:
0.0.0.0 reddit.com0.0.0.0 www.reddit.com0.0.0.0 old.reddit.com
Our guide to blocking websites on Chrome has the steps for the hosts file on Windows and Mac, plus Family Link for a child, network-wide DNS blocking, and what each method misses.
Block Reddit on your phone
Delete the Reddit app first, then block the website, or you’ll just end up on reddit.com in your browser.
- iPhone: in Settings, open Screen Time. Use App Limits to set a short daily limit on the Reddit app if you keep it. Then, under Content & Privacy Restrictions, set web content to Limit Adult Websites and add reddit.com to the list that’s never allowed.
- Android: in Settings, open Digital Wellbeing. Focus mode pauses apps you choose, so you can’t open them or get their notifications while it’s on, and App timers set a daily limit. For the website, tap Chrome in the Digital Wellbeing chart and tap Set site timer next to reddit.com.
These are limits you set for yourself, so they’re easy to undo. That’s fine: the point is a moment of friction, not a wall.
Reddit’s own settings won’t do it
Reddit has no setting to lock you out or limit your time. What it does have:
- Turn off notifications and emails in Reddit’s settings, so it stops calling you back.
- Mute communities you never want to see again. They disappear from your Home and Popular feeds and your notifications. See how to block a subreddit.
Or keep Reddit and filter it
Maybe you don’t want Reddit gone at all. You want the hobby subreddits, the repair threads and the answers, without the politics, the rage-bait and the doom. Blocking the site loses all of it, and muting works one subreddit at a time, while the same arguments turn up in news, meme and local communities and in the comments of the ones you love.
Keep the Reddit you like
Remedy is a Chrome extension that filters Reddit instead of blocking it. Switch on categories like Political, Rage-bait or Sad or depressing, or describe what you’re done with in your own words, like “no crypto hype” or “nothing about the election”, and it removes matching posts and comments as you scroll, whichever subreddit they’re in.
It doesn’t block Reddit or limit your time, and it doesn’t work in the Reddit app. It works on a computer, in Chrome, on X, YouTube, Instagram and other sites too.
Questions
Does Reddit have a setting to block itself?
No. Reddit has no lock-out or time limit setting, so blocking it means using an extension, your computer’s settings, or your phone’s Screen Time or Digital Wellbeing.
How do I block one subreddit instead of all of Reddit?
Mute it: open the community, click the three dots and choose Mute. Its posts stop showing in your Home and Popular feeds, though you can still visit it.
Why can I still open Reddit after blocking it?
Usually because only one address is blocked. Block old.reddit.com and www.reddit.com as well as reddit.com, and on a phone, block both the app and the website.