Human-centered design
Every interaction is built to reduce impulsive behavior and encourage reflection rather than shame.
Digital wellbeing company • prevention-first design
Helping people make better online decisions before harm begins.
Ynformed builds simple digital tools that interrupt risky online behavior with timely information, clear design, and practical support. Our first product is a browser extension called Bet Stop that blocks gambling sites and replaces impulse with perspective.
Browser extension • mock listings
Bet Stop
By Ynformed
Bet Stop is a browser extension designed to block gambling websites and replace them with clear educational content, risk information, and supportive next steps.
Chrome
Firefox
Bet Stop highlights
- Available as a mock Chrome and Firefox extension concept
- Fast domain-based blocking for gambling websites
- Redirect page with educational facts and support prompts
- Calm visual design instead of fear-based messaging
- Built to encourage pause, reflection, and self-control
This page uses mock Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons links for presentation purposes.
About Ynformed
Ynformed is a fictional digital health and safety brand created around the idea that informed decisions can be designed into the web experience itself. Instead of relying only on willpower, our products aim to create healthy friction: a pause, a fact, a reminder, or a redirection at the exact moment someone needs it.
Protective technology
We design tools that create boundaries around high-risk digital environments without becoming invasive.
Useful information
When people encounter risky content, we surface context, facts, and support pathways instead of dead ends.
Our mission
Ynformed exists to build calm, intelligent interventions for harmful online habits. We start with gambling-related risk because it often blends speed, reward loops, financial loss, and emotional distress into a single click. Our goal is to make that click harder — and a healthier choice easier.
A good intervention does not lecture at the wrong time. It appears at the right time, with the right amount of truth, and offers a next step.
What Bet Stop does
- Blocks known gambling websites before they load
- Redirects users to informative, supportive content
- Explains the psychological and financial risks of gambling harm
- Reinforces personal goals with interruption-based design
- Can evolve into optional accountability and recovery features
Why this matters
Gambling-related harm is not only about money. Major public health and support organizations describe gambling problems as affecting mental health, relationships, work, and day-to-day life. Help resources also emphasize that anyone who gambles can be at risk, and that support and recovery are possible.
Mental health
Problem gambling can be linked to anxiety, depression, guilt, stress, and emotional isolation.
Impact goes beyond the screen
Finances
Financial difficulties are one of the clearest harms, but they are often only one part of a wider pattern.
Debt can escalate quickly
Relationships
Trust, communication, and family stability are frequently affected when gambling becomes harmful.
Loved ones are affected too
Recovery
Helplines, treatment pathways, support services, and protective tools can all play a role in recovery.
Support exists