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Re: Blocklist of all Facebook domains

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Post by Thasc »

justsaysmthng wrote: post #22

I'm sorry, I've been away for a couple of hours... What happened ? Why should I (we) block all facebook domains ?

This is probably a reaction to the news that Facebook is now officially tracking non-users to create shadow profiles and serve adverts to them off Facebook itself. I think it's the serve-adverts-off-Facebook-itself part that's the actual news; all of the moderately chilling tracking and profile construction was of course happening already.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/27/11795248/facebook-ad-netwo...

Re: Blocklist of all Facebook domains

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Post by etiam »

justsaysmthng wrote: post #22

I'm sorry, I've been away for a couple of hours... What happened ? Why should I (we) block all facebook domains ?

I can think of a long line of excellent reasons for that...

This may well have come up because of recent news that Facebook is stepping up it's targeting of people on the open web. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11790976

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Post by maxschumacher91 »

curiousgal wrote: post #6

Any idea of an easy/quick way to toggle these edits on/off on Ubuntu?

I've put them in my host file and created an alias that switches between naming the host-file "hosts" (which will be recognized by the OS) and hostx.

from my .zshrc:

#block Twitter, Facebook, reddit and Linkedin. alias on="sudo mv /etc/hostx /etc/hosts" alias off="sudo mv /etc/hosts /etc/hostx"

Re: Blocklist of all Facebook domains

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Post by aninhumer »

apancik wrote: post #29
jpkeisala wrote: post #23

Slightly off topic: It would be nice to have some kind of extension for Chrome that blocks all Time-Wasting websites with one click. Has anyone seen something like that?

I discovered that using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/waitblock/kcnjfepp... to add a delay before opening the time-wasting website actually works better when trying to procrastinate less. Waiting 60 seconds before Fb loads gives you enough time to think about whether you want to visit it, but is also not so inconveniencing that it would make you disable it straight away when you actually want to visit the…

It's really interesting. It kind of turns your impulsiveness against itself, so your monkey is saying "Ugh, waiting for Facebook is boring, let's do something else."

Re: Blocklist of all Facebook domains

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Post by gtirloni »

apancik wrote: post #29
jpkeisala wrote: post #23

Slightly off topic: It would be nice to have some kind of extension for Chrome that blocks all Time-Wasting websites with one click. Has anyone seen something like that?

I discovered that using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/waitblock/kcnjfepp... to add a delay before opening the time-wasting website actually works better when trying to procrastinate less. Waiting 60 seconds before Fb loads gives you enough time to think about whether you want to visit it, but is also not so inconveniencing that it would make you disable it straight away when you actually want to visit the…

This extension is really awesome! Thanks for sharing.

I usually open some time-wasting website when I'm waiting on some other tasks to finish and it's got so bad I do that even if the wait is Now with a wait time on the time-wasting websites, maybe I could use this habit against itself and instead go do something else more productive while I wait.

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