How to Block or Limit Facebook on Chrome

A weekly limit is optional and free, on the same screen as the daily limit. Hours run from 0 to 168, plus minutes. Presets are 3h, 7h, 14h, 21h, and 28h. The week is Monday through Sunday. The host blocks when that week's time hits the cap, even if today is under the daily limit. One hostname is one of six free sites whether you set daily, weekly, or both. Pro removes the cap.

Open Advanced Settings (Time Windows) from the popup. That opens the full settings page for this site. Pick Workdays, Weekends, or All, then a start and an end on the same day. A window cannot cross midnight, so 9:00 PM to 1:00 AM is two windows.

A window limit counts only time inside that window. Set it to 0 hours and 0 minutes to block Facebook for the whole window, such as Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Outside the window, the daily and weekly limits still apply. A window with no limit of its own does not block by itself.

The page is titled Time's Up!. It names the hostname and the reason (daily, weekly, or time window) and shows time used against the limit, including weekly numbers when a weekly limit is set. Extend Session is +5m, +15m, +30m, and +1h. Add Time & Unblock adds that amount to the saved limit that was exceeded. A 30-minute cap plus 15 minutes stays 45 until you lower it. That is a soft limit, not a snooze.

Continue to Website stays disabled until the cap is no longer exceeded. Show Usage History is 7 days. You can turn the limit off or disable the extension. There is no password. For a child, or if you will click +15m, use Family Link, Chrome policy, the hosts file, or DNS below.

Logged out, in desktop Chrome, facebook.com, m.facebook.com, web.facebook.com, mbasic.facebook.com, touch.facebook.com, fb.com, and fb.me redirect to www.facebook.com. After that redirect, the www row is the one that records time and blocks.

We tested logged out. Facebook may keep some signed-in sessions or regions on web.facebook.com, and a phone user agent, including Chrome's device toolbar, sends www.facebook.com to m.facebook.com. If the popup shows either name, add that host too. Each one has its own clock. Saving from the popup uses the name it shows.

The News Feed (/), Watch (/watch), Reels (/reel/...), Marketplace (/marketplace), and Groups (/groups) are paths on www.facebook.com. Gaming and Events are on that host too. One clock covers all of them, so you cannot block the feed and leave Marketplace open, and SiteKeeper cannot hide Reels. Path Analysis, free on up to 3 hosts, shows the split (tree depth 2, or 10 on Pro). It only tracks.

messenger.com redirects to www.messenger.com, a separate site and a separate limit. Leave it off the list to keep chat while the feed is capped, or add www.messenger.com from Enter Custom Website. Type the www host. A messenger.com row never matches. Messages at www.facebook.com/messages/ are a Facebook path and count toward the Facebook limit.

Limited Sites and the weekly ranking list www.facebook.com and www.messenger.com as separate rows. Minutes on one do not fill the other.

Log in with Facebook can open a top-level www.facebook.com window. Time in that window counts, and the window can hit the block page. Add time, or sign in another way. Embedded posts, videos, and Like buttons on other sites are neither blocked nor counted.

Counting runs on the active tab of the focused window and pauses after 15 seconds without keyboard or mouse input, or when the screen locks. Scrolling and clicking count as input. Background tabs are not counted, and a Watch video with no input stops counting after about 15 seconds.

Incognito is not officially supported. Chrome turns extensions off there unless you enable Allow in Incognito at chrome://extensions, under SiteKeeper, then Details, and we do not promise that mode. Close it with IncognitoModeAvailability set to 1, or with Family Link. The Facebook app and other browsers are outside this extension, and limits do not sync. The Facebook app has its own time reminders. They stay in the app and do not block Chrome.

In the Family Link app, open the child, then Controls, then Google Chrome and Web, then Manage sites, then Blocked sites. Add www.facebook.com, including the www, or the domain facebook to cover subdomains such as www, m, web, and mbasic. Add Messenger only if chat should be blocked too.

Android and Chromebook are fully supervised. On Windows, Mac, and Linux it applies only while the child is signed into that Chrome profile, and they can sign out or use another browser. Family Link blocks. It has no Facebook daily timer in Chrome.

URLBlocklist works on a personal computer and needs an administrator. It blocks URLs, with no time limit. facebook.com matches its subdomains, including www, m, web, mbasic, and touch. Also list fb.com and fb.me. Add messenger.com only to block Messenger. URLAllowlist is the exception list. The more specific filter wins, including one with a path.

On Windows, add string values under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\URLBlocklist. Name 1 is facebook.com. Name 2 is fb.com. Name 3 is fb.me. On macOS, deliver the same policy with a configuration profile for com.google.Chrome. On Linux, put a JSON file in /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/:

The hosts file stops these names for every browser on the computer. It has no schedule and no wildcards, so each name needs a line. facebook.com does not cover www.facebook.com. These lines also break Log in with Facebook and embeds on other sites. On Windows, edit C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts in Notepad opened as administrator. On macOS and Linux, edit /etc/hosts with sudo. Delete the Messenger lines to keep chat.

Block Facebook in the router's parental controls or with filtering DNS. Every device on that Wi-Fi is covered, including the Facebook app, and some routers can schedule it. Mobile data is not. Chrome's Use secure DNS setting (Settings, Privacy and security, Security) or a VPN can bypass it. Point secure DNS at the same provider, or turn it off. Many services switch Facebook and Messenger separately.