How to Block or Limit Netflix 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 Netflix 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 60-minute cap plus 15 minutes stays 1 hour 15 minutes 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.

A desktop visit to netflix.com redirects to www.netflix.com. The www row is the one that records time and blocks. Type that full hostname in Enter Custom Website, even though the dialog says to leave out www. Saving from the popup uses the name the popup shows, which avoids the hint.

/browse, /title/..., and /watch/... are paths on www.netflix.com. Home, a title page, and the player share one clock. You cannot cap one show and leave the rest open. Playback is a /watch/ URL with its own id, so a Chrome allow entry for one title page does not keep the player open either. A block of netflix.com is what stops watching.

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.

Autoplay and the next episode keep the video going after the count pauses, so a hands-off episode can run past the cap. Netflix may ask if you are still watching. That prompt is inside Netflix, not a daily budget, and dismissing it does not reset SiteKeeper. For a hard stop, use 0 minutes.

Every Netflix profile in this Chrome profile is www.netflix.com and shares one clock. A profile PIN does not cap minutes.

help.netflix.com is the help center, not the player. You do not need a row for it to stop watching. If you do open help, it is a different hostname and its own clock. Limited Sites and the weekly ranking list each host on its own row.

The Netflix app on a phone, a computer, or a TV is outside Chrome, and so are other browsers. Limits do not sync. 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.

In the Family Link app, open the child, then Controls, then Google Chrome and Web, then Manage sites, then Blocked sites. Add www.netflix.com, including the www, or the domain netflix to cover subdomains such as www and help.

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 Netflix daily timer in Chrome.

URLBlocklist works on a personal computer and needs an administrator. It blocks URLs, with no time limit. netflix.com matches its subdomains, including www and help. URLAllowlist is the exception list. The more specific filter wins, including one with a path, but a title-page exception does not keep /watch/ open.

On Windows, add a string value under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\URLBlocklist. Name 1 is netflix.com. 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. netflix.com does not cover www.netflix.com. On Windows, edit C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts in Notepad opened as administrator. On macOS and Linux, edit /etc/hosts with sudo. Add help.netflix.com only if the help center should fail too.

Block Netflix in the router's parental controls or with filtering DNS. Every device on that Wi-Fi is covered, including the Netflix app and a TV on that network, and some routers can schedule it. Mobile data and other networks are 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.