<story><title>Show HN: Ten seconds to ponder if a thread is worth it</title><url>https://blog.jse.li/posts/ten-seconds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahub</author><text>I think the author wants to prevent his&amp;#x2F;her compulsive clicking of links. I can relate to that, as I tend to open a lot of content without second-guessing.&lt;p&gt;I accidentaly discover a different method to the same effect. To circumvent censorship in my country, I began regularly using a tor proxy. (Not the tor browser, just my regular browser setup). Of course everything became slow, reminding me of the good old 56k days. At first I was annoyed, it&amp;#x27;s not only slow, it&amp;#x27;s also full of CAPTCHAs. Most websites using cloudflare ask me to &amp;quot;prove I&amp;#x27;m human&amp;quot;. Annoying as it might seem, it&amp;#x27;s my ultimate &amp;quot;anti-compulsive-click&amp;quot; tool.&lt;p&gt;If I don&amp;#x27;t bother filling a captcha and&amp;#x2F;or waiting a few (~10-20) seconds to read something online, is it worth it ?&lt;p&gt;Most likelly not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ip26</author><text>My version of this has been saving news to a reader. I read very few articles in the moment, it&amp;#x27;s all pushed onto the reader stack.&lt;p&gt;The stack gets a little out of control, but it also makes it easier to make reading news a discrete time chunk of acceptable duration. It also makes clickbait a waste of effort.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s like the news version of sleeping on a purchasing decision. See if you still care about it tomorrow.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Ten seconds to ponder if a thread is worth it</title><url>https://blog.jse.li/posts/ten-seconds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahub</author><text>I think the author wants to prevent his&amp;#x2F;her compulsive clicking of links. I can relate to that, as I tend to open a lot of content without second-guessing.&lt;p&gt;I accidentaly discover a different method to the same effect. To circumvent censorship in my country, I began regularly using a tor proxy. (Not the tor browser, just my regular browser setup). Of course everything became slow, reminding me of the good old 56k days. At first I was annoyed, it&amp;#x27;s not only slow, it&amp;#x27;s also full of CAPTCHAs. Most websites using cloudflare ask me to &amp;quot;prove I&amp;#x27;m human&amp;quot;. Annoying as it might seem, it&amp;#x27;s my ultimate &amp;quot;anti-compulsive-click&amp;quot; tool.&lt;p&gt;If I don&amp;#x27;t bother filling a captcha and&amp;#x2F;or waiting a few (~10-20) seconds to read something online, is it worth it ?&lt;p&gt;Most likelly not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>outime</author><text>We’re all getting used to insta-load but around half of us will leave a site if it takes more than ~3 seconds to load about half of the people give up and the majority won’t come back [1]. It’s that dramatic, and I’ve seen myself doing it - or well, I just fallback to Google cache&amp;#x2F;web archive.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hostingmanual.net&amp;#x2F;3-seconds-how-website-speed-impacts-visitors-sales&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hostingmanual.net&amp;#x2F;3-seconds-how-website-speed-im...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>