Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages
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Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages
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Re: Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages
#2Added, shared. Love from first sight.
Re: Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages
#3Love this idea. It would be interesting to see what different ways (AI) you could predict that a site is distracting based on personal and wide-spread usage habits. Some advanced method that doesn't require a user generated whitelist would be the next level for this.
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#4This is a great idea. I read the post on HN about the theory behind this and it's so good.
Re: Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages
#5There is also Leechblock which contains the same functionality along with blocking and some in-depth config. But this may be a cool solution for someone who only cares about the latency part.
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#6This is really nice!
It would be nice (from my experience) to make the delay variable - - this stops people "Learning" ways of avoiding the always fixed length delay.
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#7Easily 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?
Re: Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages
#8There is also Leechblock which contains the same functionality along with blocking and some in-depth config. But this may be a cool solution for someone who only cares about the latency part.
I tried Leechblock, and found it unusable (on my Android phone). It broke my back bar, and often wouldn't follow through links (instead taking me to where I already was).
Re: Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages
#9The relevant post from a day ago: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit.
Re: Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages
#10Easily 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?
StayFocusd had the nice feature that you couldn't change its settings for the current day. The only way to get around it was disabling/uninstalling the extension.
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.