why give PR to something that can be easily done via browser settings?
I just made it for myself and share it here. For me it is better to control by button and aute deactivate feature than with manual control.
Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions
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#12why give PR to something that can be easily done via browser settings?
It's an easily accessible toggle. It would be a pain to be on a website where you need to see an image and have to go find the setting toggle it, view you content , then find and toggle it again.
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#13I've gotta share something -- so, I think I have a bit of an addiction with YouTube and I'd been thinking about how to shake it off. I didn't get round to it for whatever reason (blocks in modem settings maybe), but one day a month or so ago, if I went to YouTube, I saw this screen: https://i.imgur.com/OIL0jSE.png
Not extremely sure why this happens (I reckon it has to do with my use of adguard), but anyway I noticed I would just... move on, there were not icons to entice me that I could immediately click. And then sure enough, I found myself less hungry for it in the coming weeks.
This all happened by accident but boy o' boy, it works. I'm wasting less time on YouTube.
I similarly stopped going to reddit (the comments don't load on mobile, things become unclickable... I imagine this is a change recently made live to force users to login to increase engagement... ironic that it works out backwards to what their intent was).
Reflecting more on this on a weary weekend morning, about how many are unable to shake off these addictions, I am increasingly convinced of the poisonous effects of these distractions and cannot help but think that dire action is needed to curb these addictions with gov't mandated regulations.
I think price increase of tobacco products (with tax costs embedded in the price) were a great deterrent (better than the warning signs on the tobacco), so I suspect deterrents need be incredibly strong. Finding that balance and perspective, of weighing personal freedoms and recognizing the realities of addictions is going to be very hard, but I hope for the good of us we go somewhere with this and recognize the dangers for what they are.
Re: Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions
#14I've gotta share something -- so, I think I have a bit of an addiction with YouTube and I'd been thinking about how to shake it off. I didn't get round to it for whatever reason (blocks in modem settings maybe), but one day a month or so ago, if I went to YouTube, I saw this screen: https://i.imgur.com/OIL0jSE.png Not extremely sure why this happens (I reckon it has to do with my use of adguard), but anyway I noticed…
For YouTube, I pay for premium because I already block ads, and it feels proper to support creators that way. Then I use my content blocker to remove the sidebar and the end screen overlay, both of which are stuffed with distracting elements. I've bookmarked my subscriptions page, and if creators I like haven't uploaded anything I'm interested in watching, I just close the tab.
This took some effort, but it works wonders. And really, there's only a handful of YouTube channels I actually want to follow anyway. A lot of the rest of it seems to be low effort humor. Nothing wrong with that, it's just mostly not my cup of tea.
Re: Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions
#15I wrote a bookmarklet for same:
javascript:(function(){var imgs=document.getElementsByTagName("img");
for(var i=0;iRe: Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions
#16why give PR to something that can be easily done via browser settings?
I just made it for myself and share it here. For me it is better to control by button and aute deactivate feature than with manual control.
Nice work! People will always find something to complain about.
If you find it useful, a handful of other people probably will as well.
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#17why give PR to something that can be easily done via browser settings?
What does PR here mean?
Edit, public relations I guess..
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#18I've gotta share something -- so, I think I have a bit of an addiction with YouTube and I'd been thinking about how to shake it off. I didn't get round to it for whatever reason (blocks in modem settings maybe), but one day a month or so ago, if I went to YouTube, I saw this screen: https://i.imgur.com/OIL0jSE.png Not extremely sure why this happens (I reckon it has to do with my use of adguard), but anyway I noticed…
I put a rule in my adblocker to block the reddit homepage but not individual threads (because that's often where google takes me).
Massively helpful, but also concerning how months later I still automatically try to go to the homepage every once in a while and run into my adblocker.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just made it for myself and share it here. For me it is better to control by button and aute deactivate feature than with manual control.
Nice work! People will always find something to complain about. If you find it useful, a handful of other people probably will as well.
Thank you!
Re: Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions
#20I've gotta share something -- so, I think I have a bit of an addiction with YouTube and I'd been thinking about how to shake it off. I didn't get round to it for whatever reason (blocks in modem settings maybe), but one day a month or so ago, if I went to YouTube, I saw this screen: https://i.imgur.com/OIL0jSE.png Not extremely sure why this happens (I reckon it has to do with my use of adguard), but anyway I noticed…
> Not extremely sure why this happens
It’s when you have no watch history.