Accessibility

PhobiaBlocker

By FAB V

Enjoy a phobia free web. Block scary images from a large list of real-world objects (e.g., insects, animals, plants).

View Chrome Web Store

Time on the storeAbout 3 years or moreA rough range, not an exact date

Store users174As shown on the Chrome Web Store

Chrome Web Store rating3.4 / 55 ratings on the Chrome Web Store

Last store update8 Jun 2026Version 1.3.2, 4 months ago

Inside the extension

PhobiaBlocker developer product preview 1

Product image 1 of 4

Reviews

Goatman Brigance2.6 years ago
It's a step in the right direction for sure. But the time it took for the pictures to actually be blocked was too slow and I used it to block spiders and it would block other things such as Spider-Man. It needs to be more fine tuned so it can block only what I need to be blocked.
Blu3.2 years ago
Perfect for arachnophobia and similar phobias Terrible for other phobias like Tokophobia.
Константин Балащук4.8 years ago
great idea! Useful tool. But more phobia categories required: blood, death, horror, medicine, garbage/trash, face/avatar etc.
Dean Wilson5.3 years ago
Its laggy so i just turn it off whenever i don't think i will see spiders (day to day work stuff). I switch it back on whenever i feel that i might be seeing some type of insect or spider
Elias Foramitti6.1 years ago
I love the idea and I think it could help many people to make their online presence a little bit less anxious. However, the current version (1.2.0 from 10th of May 2020) is a huge performance burden on your browser and therefore probably only worth it for rather extreme phobias (or if you have a lot of performance to spare while browsing) (Note to the developer: I'm a data scientist myself, so I understand that you probably cannot do much about the network size and therefore this performance problem, but just be aware that this is probably your biggest problem here. I almost immediately uninstalled the extension after trying it out, since I am just not willing to give up all this performance for a little more comfort on the web) Another thing that is a major problem, but would fortunately be much easier to fix, I guess, is that images appear for a short flash before they are blocked. Of course some people, who are only discomforted *while* a phobia-inducing image is shown, probably prefer seeing all images instantly and the extension only blocking them one-by-one after it detects phobia content, but other people are probably too frightened even by a short flash of phobia content and therefore prefer the extension blocking all images by default and then only slowly reenabling them as soon as they are checked and confirmed to be harmless. A setting for this would be nice. The last major problem, which is probably almost impossible to solve, while maintaining a sensible performance cost, is that video material is not analyzed. Generally I love the idea and it is fairly well implemented here. The main restrictions are likely today's technical limitations, but if this extension is being kept up to date while PC performance increases and machine learning techniques are getting more efficient and/or some problem-specific, creative solutions are implemented to lower the performance cost, this might become a great extension and draw a large user baser (I know many people personally who would love such a tool)

Reviews

Loading reviews…

Permissions & access

Access levelHigh

Can read and change every website you visit.

What it’s allowed to do, not what it actually does. Not a safety rating.

Permissions 4

Sensitive1

Read and change data on every website<all_urls>

Standard3

Save its own settingsstorage
Add items to the right-click menucontextMenus
Run hidden helper pagesoffscreen

Members also see when a new version asks for new access.

Website access All

All websites

Extension ID: dglbodgngpkmgceoiihoaopibimkihnb
Package size: 65.09MiB
Manifest: Version 3

The maker

This is the only listing we know of from FAB V.

Listings: 1
Combined store users: ≈174
Store Featured: 0

Combined users can count the same person more than once. Maker profile

Ext Watch AI

Should you build in this niche?

See plans

One research report for PhobiaBlocker. Reports come with Plus, Pro and Max.

Takeaway & demandCited takeaway and search volumes
Traffic & domainPopularity rank, visits and authority
Money & pricingPlans and prices from the maker’s site
ReviewsComplaints and praise, quoted
Competitors & ranksRank against the closest listings
Build opportunityWhat to build and how to position it

Every number shows its source and date
Ready in a minute or two
Report and PDF yours for 30 days

Inside the extension

Reviews

Reviews

Competitors

New-Tab Blocker

Permissions & access

Permissions 4

Sensitive1

Standard3

Website access All

The maker

Should you build in this niche?

Reviews

New-Tab Blocker