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Overall browsers should be focused more on reducing distractions. Shopping! Collections! Donate! Improve video! Zoom photo! Enhance photo!
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So much money with so little value, how come drugs are illegal and this ain't
I'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.
edit: Using AdGuard for Safari, the following works for me under custom filtering rules:
||reddit.com^$document
||old.reddit.com^$document
@@||reddit.com/r/*/comments/*
@@||old.reddit.com/r/*/comments/*
@@||reddit.com/r/*/comments/*$document
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I'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 like to think to combat addictiveness of modern apps, you need to actively make it less convenient. It's hard to completely quit it, but if it's clunky to use you'll naturally use it less.
He used to go to a random motel, book for a few days, away from office, and work on a hard topic (usually graphics) non stop.
I took a poor man's option instead. Go to a chain coffee shop where you can buy a cup of coffee and sit in a corner undisturbed (human noises do not concern me). Bring a dumb phone just in case, turn off WiFi, and you are good to go.
I tried this a few weeks ago and went over one and a half chapters of "Crafting Interpreters" in 3 hours. I had to admit it was tough to go beyond that, but you might be able to do more with a healthier body. It was also from 10AM to 1PM so hunger had an impact as well.
I'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…
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> Not extremely sure why this happens It’s when you have no watch history.
It's actually from the adblocker. Google is cracking down and making YouTube harder to use if you don't have ads or a premium subscription.