OnlineClock Reviews 117

Glad to see that I can use onlineclock.net again despite my isp being google. Site looks completely different now too. Did ownership change or have a change of heart?

I checked back in on this site to see if I can use it (i.e if my isp isn't banned) and found that my review was removed (i wanted to check on status of the site so maybe people not saying stuff about "ban" or "ip" would tell me that its just a "me problem").
reply from the site owner
"Wait.
Let me get this straight.
You've never accessed our site in your entire lifetime, but are still leaving a negative review?
Not only that: you were so affected by the experience that you were motivated to create a Trustpilot account, and post your very first review?
You're fake, and part of a negative campaign against my site.
Not only that, but your name is "Hexagon"?". This site is still unusable/inaccessible (Error 1005). I would think that an error page isnt really accessing a site but apparently that isn't true.

also... why the comment about my username? It was unnecessary.
I use Microsoft edge and this site is the top search for "timer". I looked at reviews when I was trying to figure out why I was banned and decided to leave a review... because I couldn't use the site.
original review
"The first and only (to my knowledge) time of trying to use this site and I can't access it. Your service does not work for me and what seems like many other people.... very disappointing. "

I hope my horrible and disorganized writing hasn't fried your brain.

I unfortunately cannot give this website 5 stars. Though i understand this is a project essentially manned by one person, when changing ISPs somewhat recently I found I was banned from the website. It was a huge bummer for me. As a college student now, I started using this site back in middle school to wake up for classes. It truly was my favorite site of its kind, but as Verizon is easily the best ISP in my area in all ways except for this one, it seems I'll have to find other sites.

I check back every so often to see if the site's creator has found a solution to the spam issue, and hope to be able to use it again one day. I hope things work out somehow! I miss using it!

This site really deserves 5 stars but I gave 4 because I'm trying to get the attention of the developer. Ive used this as my go to alarm clock for many years but for a while now, ive been banned for an unknown reason. To be clear, I like the site, i'm a real person and id like to be unbanned please? Also, im a cybersecurity major so i get it, but can we talk? Let me know if this can be discussed. Thank you

I got blocked and I'm not complaining. For the first time I can recall, I just tried going to google.com and it also thought I might be a bot. So, props to you for defending what you have. I've been using your site for...man I wanna say 18-20 years? I was a teen. All of these people complaining need to get a life. It's a free website with one of the most reliable alarms that actually helps me wake up. Wife hates it, but she doesn't have to get up to work so meh. I will say though, your memes are getting more and more unhinged lol I've actually been a bit shocked some mornings and just had to take a moment, alarm still blaring, to go "wtf"? Keep doing you, don't let the haters get to you.

I LOVE THIS SITE. As an avid procastinator the big red led lighted countdown really helps me get a sense of the time. And the rewarding unhinged memes and jokes? ...absolute perfection. I dislike the modern day apps and sites because they are far too overcomplicated and "aesthetic"--which just makes it too calming for forcing out procastination. If this site were to leave I would be more than sad.

I won't leave 1 stars because as someone who maintains cloud/web services for a living, I highly doubt an individual (or even a few individuals) has the finances to retain an effective DDoS prevention solution, especially for a project of this small proportion.

Prices are really insane; for one guy trying to make accessible a utility for others while having ad revenue pay for itself, such measures are not feasible. So, they went the other route and did the ASN block. And took out one of the largest ISPs in the USA from accessing it.

If what the author claims is true, this is a shame on Verizon's end for allowing cybercrime to take place with their infrastructure.

Honestly I'm just here for the memes

After a good 15 years of using the site I suddenly find myself banned and see that the owner is baselessly calling anyone who complains a fake account. Newflash: if people are registering accounts just to complain about your product, it doesn't mean they're fake, it means you really screwed up. I will miss the site, but it's not worth the hassle or the attitude.

Having used this site since 2011, I recently have found myself blocked. I'm not an internet expert. I live in a rural area, with one ISP available as our choice. Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do. I've read this owner's previous responses - and, the tone of them says everything you need to know. Unfortunately. not everyone can be at the level this particular owner expects us to be. I've found an alternative for what I need, without the technical issues - and, even better, without the condescending attitude given by this owner. I already know how the response will be to this review, as well - again, unsurprising, given how things are with this site now. What a shame.

I'll edit this further. The reason I'm giving a 1-star is the attitude of the owner. This is not how an owner should present himself to people who are actually expressing genuine concerns and frustration. The developer actually replied with some humility toward a review that empathized with the situation; that said, maybe the owner should think about attacking every negative review, some times ad hominem, and maybe explain what you're doing to make things right.

Kindness. It goes far. It'll get you better reviews for better service.

Food for thought.

ETA: Now why would I dox myself? All I can say is that my ISP is a normal, commercial ISP that has a monopoly, claims to serve 400 thousand people, and owns 600 thousand+ IPv4 addresses alone.

Edit: Should have figured the site owner's reply would be unreasonable. Making your website unusable for 680 thousand people is exactly what will kill the website. (and this number is definitely higher because I know more than one ASN is blocked). Not some AI, or some bogyman they've invented about people trying to tank their SEO. No, this is just people like me telling anyone who reads this to not get used to having access to this site, because even if you do nothing personally 'wrong' (which wrong here is even debatable), you are just a casualty they care nothing about. It's not like a lot of us can just get another ISP either, nor should we have to, to use a site whose function is replaced by a mobile device.
That being said, I highly recommend anyone who prefers having a large clock display on their laptop to use onlinealarmkur, it is a decent replacement.

[original below]
I have no idea what the owner of the site has decided to install as some sort of 'spam' protection, but it has marked not just my IP address, but my entire ISP as blocked (as in it is an ASN ban, not an IP ban). Something is not working as intended on either the site or cloudflare's end. I have used the site for years, but guess I won't be any more. No I'm not using a vpn or other proxy. The fact that so many people in the last few days have reported this, and the owner only seems to blame the users or accuse them of basically DDOSing the site.. yeah no.

I was IP banned without cause from this site. I had used this site for years. I don't like looking for the little clock on my computer monitor. So I'd keep this open on a 2nd monitor.

I attempted to contact the owner about the ban. He asked for my IP address along with a screenshot of the ban. Provided both.

He says that my IP is being used as a callback proxy. Linked to a site that required logging in.

He also says that it's been marked by multiple sites as spam. Links a site showing me with 1 report with a 0% confidence of abuse

Then says F-You for wasting my time...

Find another clock/alarm site. Don't give this guy any traffic.

I've used onlineclock.net for years. When trying to visit today, I received the following message:

Error 1008 Access denied. The owner of this website (stopwatch.onlineclock.net) has banned your IP address.

I'm just an average user and have never used this site (or any other for that matter) maliciously. I'm seeing other people have hit the same issue as reported here on Trustpilot and Reddit. I'm guessing the owner has some misconfiguration or overly-strict settings enabled on Cloudflare because I wholly believe there's no reason my IP should've been banned.

Also, seeing how the owner has replied to other reviewers here reporting the same issue, I'll be deleting my longstanding bookmark and finding an alternative.

I used it a ton when I was a student doing overnighters so I would wake up in time for class. Then I got IP banned.

So I really love using this site for all my different alarms and timers, it's just a personal preference since 2012 or so. 2~ish years ago the site randomly stopped working for me, 3 months went by and it was full function again and held the course once more until a couple nights ago again with a Error 1005, was wondering if I'm doing something wrong causing my 2 breaks in use from the site. (Roughly 98.1% reliable for me which is great)

Tldr; Site is great, but bans randomly.

The site is pretty good and simple for what it is. Just an online alarm, and it's free. Had used it for around 3 years to wake up for work. If I had reviewed it then, I'd give a 5 because it was easy, free, did what I needed, and on occasion there's a goofy meme.

The other day I go to use it again, and I get a webpage informing me the owner has banned my IP. It just seems very goofy, as if I'm suspected of using an alarm clock for malicious purposes lol. I've never really been banned on anything before, and after googling "onlineclock ban" to see if this is normal, this site was the second result.

Reading a few other comments, it seems this is common. However, it's a free service and I'd probably still recommend it.

Here to add another IP banning issue to the pile...

I tried this website for the first time last night because my phone broke and I needed something as an alarm clock. (I was too tired at the time to think of the built in app on win11, suppose I'll be using that in the future.)

I woke up in the morning, 2 hours later than I would have liked, to a message saying that I was IP banned. This, of course, confused me. I didn't have any outside programs or websites running at all and I was just sleeping with the website and it's rain sounds on.

I'm lucky this happened on a day I had off from work, because this website would have made me late. I went onto this site looking to see if anyone else had the same issue. If this was some freak occurrence or misunderstanding I would have been inclined to leave 2 or 3 stars instead, because I did like the site's UI and options for white noise. But reading the other reviews here and seeing the owner's "F*** you I'm not sorry" attitude towards this whole issue dropped it to one. I understand that a lot of internet traffic is bots and bad actors, sure. But you seem to be banning a lot of people who don't fall into either category for no reason the user is aware of. People rely on things like this to wake them up for time sensitive things, like work or school. I got lucky, but how many people do you think were actually made late, again, by no apparent fault of their own, because your website decided to go and ban their IP? Please do better.

Saved one of the morning memes after waking up and found out I had been banned when I got back home from work later that day. Dunno if its the reason, but its the only thing I have done differently in using the alarm clock. Searched this issue up and realized I am not the only person who has been arbitrarily banned. Hope this guy DOES get drowned out by AI, cause his unnecessary attitude definitely makes it easier to move on from his clock. Bunch of unnecessary BS for something so simple and easily replaceable. Owner is actively looking for reasons to ban legitimate users. Doesn't help that a majority of people who use his site do one of the things he bans for like automatic alternating IPs, VPNs, or having more than one alarm clock open so they don't sleep thru the first one. This guy is a paranoid cook. Look at his reply, he can't even address the actual faults in his website or decision making. Your competition doesn't even need to go on "advertising campaigns", you do it for them. Furthermore, he ain't cooking with this one chat.

Look, dude, I have never exchanged emails with you.

7,729,920 IPs in my ASN are banned. The entire ASN.

My entire ASN isn't bots. There's over 16,000 domains in this ASN.

I'd like you to know that your site was really appreciated! I used it for a long time! I'm just confused about why you have made it inaccessible.

Was a fan of this site for years. Then I randomly got IP banned today. And looking through earlier reviews, the owner of this will not help and will instead accuse you of being at fault and will even personally insult you. So might as well not bother trying to see why I got banned.

In short, don't recommend. There are plenty of other alarm sites.