The short version
Freedom and Cold Turkey are general-purpose blockers. You point them at any site or app you want to restrict, LinkedIn included, alongside Instagram, YouTube, news sites, or anything else pulling your attention. LinkedIn Feed Blocker does one narrow thing: it hides the LinkedIn feed specifically, while leaving messages, jobs, your profile, and the rest of LinkedIn fully usable.
If LinkedIn is your only problem, that narrow focus is the point. If you're fighting distraction across a dozen sites and apps, a broader tool makes more sense.
Freedom
Freedom blocks websites and apps across every device you use at once, syncing a single session across Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and Chrome. Start a session on your laptop and the same block applies to your phone automatically, which helps if your distraction habit follows you across devices.
Pricing: Freedom runs on a subscription, with plans that have ranged from roughly $7 to $9 a month or around $40 a year depending on the current promotion, plus a one-time "Freedom Forever" lifetime option. Check freedom.to directly for current rates, since pricing has shifted over time.
How it handles LinkedIn: You'd add linkedin.com to a custom blocklist, which blocks the entire site during your session, not just the feed. That means messages, job applications, and your profile become inaccessible too, unless you build a more surgical setup using Freedom's "block all except" mode to allow specific LinkedIn pages through. That is more configuration than most people want for one site.
Best for: People who need one tool covering many distracting sites and apps across multiple devices, not just LinkedIn.
Cold Turkey
Cold Turkey is a Windows and macOS desktop blocker known for being difficult to circumvent. Its Pro tier lets you lock a block so it cannot be turned off early, and its "Frozen Turkey" mode goes further, locking your entire computer for a set period with no override.
Pricing: Cold Turkey Pro is a one-time purchase rather than a subscription, generally in the $39 to $45 range depending on current pricing at getcoldturkey.com. The free version exists but has a significant limitation: blocks in the free tier can simply be turned off whenever you want, which undercuts the point for anyone who actually needs enforcement.
How it handles LinkedIn: Same approach as Freedom: you'd add linkedin.com to a Cold Turkey block, which takes down the entire site. There's no built-in way to allow messaging and jobs while hiding only the feed. Cold Turkey also has no mobile app, so if your LinkedIn scrolling happens mostly on your phone, it won't reach it at all.
Best for: People on desktop who've tried gentler blockers, kept overriding them, and need something closer to a hard lockout.
LinkedIn Feed Blocker
LinkedIn Feed Blocker is a Chrome extension built around one distinction Freedom and Cold Turkey do not make by default: LinkedIn is useful for messaging, networking, and job search, and the feed is the part that is not. It hides the feed automatically, all the time in the free version, while leaving the rest of LinkedIn working normally.
Pricing: Free to install, with a one-time $4.99 upgrade (processed through Stripe) that unlocks scheduling (block the feed during work hours, off-hours, or weekends), a toggle to turn blocking on or off manually, and timed 5-minute breaks that shut the feed back off automatically. No subscription either way.
How it handles LinkedIn: This is the whole point of the tool. Nothing to configure, no blocklist to build, no risk of accidentally blocking your own messages along with the feed.
Limitations: It only works in Chrome and only affects linkedin.com. If your actual problem spans Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, and LinkedIn, this tool solves one part of that problem. It also doesn't touch the LinkedIn mobile app, so a scroll habit that lives mainly on your phone needs a separate mobile-level tool.
Side-by-side
| LinkedIn Feed Blocker | Freedom | Cold Turkey | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Chrome only | Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome | Windows, macOS only |
| Pricing model | Free, $4.99 one-time upgrade | Subscription (~$7–9/mo or ~$40/yr), lifetime option available | One-time (~$39–45 for Pro) |
| Blocks | LinkedIn feed only | Any site or app you choose | Any site or app you choose |
| Keeps LinkedIn messaging/jobs usable | Yes, by default | Only with manual "allow" configuration | Only with manual "allow" configuration |
| Mobile app blocking | No | Yes | No |
| Hard-lockout mode | No | Locked sessions (Premium) | Frozen Turkey (locks entire computer) |
Which one actually fits your situation
If LinkedIn is the one site quietly costing you an hour a day, and you don't want to spend time configuring blocklists or risk locking yourself out of a message you're waiting on, LinkedIn Feed Blocker is built for that case, and it's the cheapest option on this list by a wide margin.
If your distraction problem is broader than LinkedIn, spans multiple devices, and you want one system covering everything, Freedom is the more capable tool, at ongoing subscription cost.
If you've tried softer blockers already and keep finding ways around them, and your distraction happens mainly at a desktop, Cold Turkey's harder lockout modes are worth the one-time price.
Nothing stops you from running more than one. Plenty of people use Cold Turkey or Freedom for the wider internet and pair it with LinkedIn Feed Blocker for the one site that needs a more surgical fix.