Easily disabled if you find it annoying. And if you're self disciplined enough to not turn it off, surely you're self disciplined enough to curb your browsing habits?
A small reminder.. it's easy to end up in scrolling mode.
The behavior curve is interesting. It is for me now practically an autonomous unconscious behavior to open Reddit or HN. StayFocusd would figuratively provide the "slap" to make me consciously realize what I was doing, so going through the steps of disabling it was a conscious, deliberate decision, which was enough to prevent that from happening.