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Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by Matumio »

unicornporn wrote: post #189
lnreddy wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that is the point. It doesn't block the website entirely lest you go and disable the extension. It's designed to frustrate you slightly.

I see. Not very functional for those who have tabs for these sites permanently open.

Right, I always open news front pages from a bookmark for some reason, and stories as background tabs. Each tab has its own delay-block when activated, and at some point I usually close unread tabs instead of waiting for them.

But the block repeats every few hours, and I'm pretty sure that clicking on a link within the same tab repeats the block then (maybe depends on the page). So yes, the "dosage" of how many delays you get is not very well controlled for. Still, I'm using this setup for years and it definitely does something for me.

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by jquast »

ignoramous wrote: post #198
phpnode wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see it far less frequently now (thanks @dang!), but a few years ago it wasn't uncommon to see shadow banned HN users continuing to post for years , talking into the void. Sometimes I'd look into their post history and so many of them had been banned for utterly trivial reasons, it was pretty sad.

Would you have a profile or two handy that I can take a look at? I left showdead on for a while but found it useless in terms of coming across interesting comments from such users. Thx.

I seem to remember being pretty upset when I found out Terry Davis of Temple OS was being shadowbanned. Maybe it was just temporary for a short period or a single comment, but I didn't like it.

I found this (related?) poll https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7818823

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by adzm »

csense wrote: post #109
karatestomp wrote: post #7

Packages show up on the lawn it is astonishing how they appear. They are astonishing surprises. It’s what I ordered the cat food the espresso machine the two new tables. Ordering things and how they appear basically I am a small-scale sorcerer. On the road I press the button and the music goes. Air conditioning gas pedal restaurant take-out etc. It is my will being perpetually sated. Pretend we are writing a fable in…

What in the world is forkliftohio.com? It's a very insane website. I don't get it.

Not sure but I like it.

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by codebje »

Fnoord wrote: post #193
ijidak wrote: post #153

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Wow! That's a clever solution. I can see it only working when users don't know it exists. But when secret, I imagine this would be INCREDIBLY effective, as they'll blame the experience on the software, not their behavior.

Playing devil's advocate here (hey, it is hellbanning, right?) What if a user pays for the content directly? Indirectly, they pay via ads. And if applied to networking with say QoS it is suddenly net neutrality though

Net neutrality doesn't apply to content providers differentiating service, because they're not common carriers.

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by ferzul »

gnicholas wrote: post #76

reminds me of The Disconnect, the web-based magazine that you can only read when you're offline: https://thedisconnect.co/one/

that's hillarious, but if you reconnect, you lose your scroll position. i normally read things over days, weeks, months

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by tomcatfish »

bonoboTP wrote: post #179

Another from me: blacklist the recommended questions from other stackexchange sites! I always get distracted by some juicy story on workplace.se or interpersonal skills or academia or worldbuilding or politics. My monkey brain will read those questions and think about the answer, then I have to click and see what others say. But Stackoverflow remains productive if I block this box.

For those interested, I use these Ad-block (uBlock Origin) filters on Stackoverlow Network sites:

  ! Block the hot network questions for focus
  superuser.com,stackoverflow.com,stackexchange.com###hot-network-questions
  ! Get rid of the distracting "Blog" area
  superuser.com,stackoverflow.com,stackexchange.com###sidebar > div:has-text(Blog)
  ! This banner reappears for me
  superuser.com,stackoverflow.com,stackexchange.com###js-gdpr-consent-banner
  ! Block the left sidebar that takes up space
  superuser.com,stackoverflow.com,stackexchange.com###left-sidebar

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by jedberg »

Antwan wrote: post #140

I ran a website for youngsters several years ago. One of the duties to maintain it was to moderate discussion boards. Some kids were difficult to manage and would not accept to be banned (via email/IP/or whatever solution) and would keep recreating profiles. Ultimately I dealt with those ppl by “greylisting” them. Added a sleep() prior each page rendering of 5 to 25 secs (actually it was more sophisticated and would…

We did the same thing at reddit. If someone was abusing the site we would redirect them at the load balancer to a single server with an extra sleep in it.
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