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24 alternatives to Shut Up: Comment Blocker

Hides comments on many popular websites.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Shut Up: Comment Blocker launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Avoid distracting and stressful comment sections everywhere

    2020 · commentblock.org · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    Block annoying chat widgets

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Quiet▲90

    Block annoying parts of the web

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I'm a freelance web developer and got tired of the endless email chains during website QA. Clients would send screenshots with red circles, or worse, Word docs with "the button on the page with the thing." I'd spend more time decoding feedback than actually fixing stuff. So I built Commentblocks. You add a script to your staging site, send clients a link, and they click anywhere on the page to leave a comment. That's it. No signup for them, no explaining how to use it. Each comment captures the exact element, viewport size, browser, and URL. Comments show up in a dashboard or can go…

    Feb 2026 · commentblocks.com · its alternatives →

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    Highlight new comments, mute users & tweak UI on Hacker News

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    OnlyHate▲117

    Filter out toxic positivity from social comments

    Jan 2026 · only-hate.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Sadblock▲155

    Block sad/depressing news from your social feeds

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Hi all, I kept wasting time on social media, even though I’d promised myself I’d stay focused. Regular site blockers didn’t help. I needed something that felt annoying enough to break the habit. That’s how the idea came up: make the blocker ask me to say something embarrassing out loud before it lets me back in. If I actually have to yell “I’m a loser” into my mic. Even better - the louder I screamed, the more time I’d get. So I put together Scream to Unlock. It’s silly, but so far it’s done its job. My social feeds stay locked unless I really want them. Extension link -…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Hidy▲87

    Auto hide unwanted social comments (FB, Instagram)

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Hide cookie popups across all of your Apple devices

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Comment and rate every webpage on the internet

    2025 · frispeech.com · its alternatives →

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    Little chrome extension I made to collapse comments on HN, feel free to use it if you want.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Remove YouTube recommendations, comments, and more

    2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Focus▲221

    A Mac app to block distracting websites

    2014 · heyfocus.com · its alternatives →

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    Comment & live chat on almost any page of your iPhone

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Block annoying 'open in app' popups

    2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Unweb▲98

    Adblock for distracting crap like feeds and related content

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Highlight new Hacker News comments, and other UX tweaks

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Talkee▲88

    Comment/chat website embedding with Web3 logins and rewards

    2023 · pando.im · its alternatives →

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    Quiet 3▲93

    It's time the internet was just a little more quiet

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Mute users and keywords instantly

    2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Comment and rate any website without leaving the page

    2020 · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    I was tired of how bad distraction blockers are so I built my own. LockIn lets AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) block websites by editing the system hosts file directly via MCP tools (via a secure cloudflare bridge). Why? Because chrome extensions don't work. Blocking it natively makes it unbypassable, and having your agent gatekeep your focus is the ultimate cheat code. Since everyone is using AI agents nowadays, but most people start scrolling or Reddit while waiting for Claude Code to finish, giving them control over your focus solves that. The MCP server exposes four tools:…

    Jun 2026 · lockinmcp.com · its alternatives →

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