Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
ScrollBreak Blocks the Scroll, Not the Apps
An Android tool that closes Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts while leaving the rest of both apps usable.
Why it surfacedScrollBreak 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.
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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.