Pause.do interrupts scrolling, tab overload, AI prompts

Pause.do's smartest move is replacing hard blocks with tiny moments of self-awareness. That feels better suited to modern browsing, where the problem is often reflexive AI use as much as scrolling itself.

• –It lives in the overlap between focus software and AI guardrails, which is a more interesting niche than generic website blocking.
• –Its Think First feature is the sharpest hook: it intercepts the reflex to hand work to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity.
• –Local-only tracking plus a one-time license is a strong trust and value story for a browser extension handling sensitive attention data.
• –The risk is over-interruption: if the heuristics get noisy, it will feel like another nag instead of a useful pause.