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Good job on helping to curb mindless browsing! On this topic, another add-on I have found to be fairly helpful is called "Pluckeye" [1]. At its base level, it simply blocks all images and video from your browser. You can customize it by adding/removing websites from the blacklist, and is fairly robust to occasional cravings by having a delay on changes to the blacklist that allow a website. The only downside is that…
"Mindless browsing" is just dopamine addiction, happens with phone notifications, porn and many other stimulus, a good video about it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QiE-M1LrZk
The advice I got is that you need to take a very hard look at what things in your life recharge you, and prioritize the ones that work well over the ones that are minor or neutral. Your initial list will contain a bunch of things that are really just playing for time. They don't recharge you, they just keep you still long enough for you to recuperate a little bit. One of my big ones is naps, but I'm still wrestling w…
Hey this looks really helpful! I appreciate your commitment to privacy, that's a very important feature for me. Nonetheless, having been burned by Chrome extensions in the past [1], I'm worried about privacy and I'm wondering if you'd be willing to make it open source to allay those concerns. [1] https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extensio...
Hey! I totally get where you're coming from. I wrote a post exploring the privacy and security of Chrome extensions: https://www.notion.so/dkthehuman/Day-4-The-Danger-of-Chrome-... I'd love to open source Intention like I've done with a ton of previous projects ( http://github.com/dkthehuman/ ), but since it's a Chrome extension, that'd make it trivial for anyone to copy. Given that I'd like to eventually develop a p…
I don't have any fist in the fight on privacy, just thought you should know your code is already out there.
I love this idea and just installed it. However it falls into a similar problem I have found myself in with iphone's screen time. On my iphone I have found myself mindlessly clicking the "add 15 minutes" of screen time and typing in my 4 digit code so often that it is now just muscle memory to do so. Yes, I have no self control. Could you add a feature so you have to type in a pin to continue BUT the number pad is in…
Hey HN, I've been working on a Chrome/Firefox extension called Intention to help me stay focused and not get distracted, and for me and my friends, we've found it more effective than other tools we've tried. The idea behind it is extremely simple: Commit to a time limit before using a distracting site. This prevents the two most common ways that we get sucked into distractions online: 1. Habitual navigation: Througho…
Hey HN, I've been working on a Chrome/Firefox extension called Intention to help me stay focused and not get distracted, and for me and my friends, we've found it more effective than other tools we've tried. The idea behind it is extremely simple: Commit to a time limit before using a distracting site. This prevents the two most common ways that we get sucked into distractions online: 1. Habitual navigation: Througho…
I also get sucked in by depth first searches that never end. And while it'd be cool to have an addon that made me check in on, you know, are you still trying to figure out that statistics problem you were looking at or are you relearning linear algebra instead... Firefox doesn't seem to have a reading list, at least not out of the box, and I don't end up using it on Mobile Safari anyway. Having a way to 'get out' of…
- It even offers you summaries of links before you click them where available.
- Blocks cookie notices.
- Hides Facebook/YouTube feed.
- 1st party tracking resistance (deletes cookies on every page load for websites that you're not signed in to)
- Website blocking
The upcoming version even has in page reader mode so you dont leave the page (video in tweet): https://twitter.com/BaitblockApp/status/1252623683266494464
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/baitblock-distract... - for chrome
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/baitblock - for firefox