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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10

ScrollBreak Blocks the Scroll, Not the Apps

scrollbreak.net ↗ · Useful Tools · score 82.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

An Android tool that closes Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts while leaving the rest of both apps usable.

Why it surfaced

ScrollBreak takes a sharply limited approach to digital wellbeing: choose either app or both, grant accessibility permission once, and the offending video screen closes when opened. It is free, ad-free, account-free, and says it keeps all data on the phone—a notably clear privacy position for a tool that needs sensitive system access.

Ham Is Specifically Discouraged

August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.