<story><title>I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit</title><url>https://howonlee.github.io/2020/02/12/I-20Add-2020-20Seconds-20of-20Latency-20to-20Every-20Website-20I-20Visit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtrip</author><text>This is brilliant! I&amp;#x27;ve been suffering from work related anxiety for years which I&amp;#x27;ve learned to douse with Youtube, Reddit or HN. This became a huge problem for me recently and so I had to try to break my habit loops (Cue -&amp;gt; Action -&amp;gt; Reward).&lt;p&gt;I cannot quit cold-turkey because all the methods that I can think of to block the websites I can undo in the mania of anxiety.&lt;p&gt;Youtube always gives you an option to look for more content, either on the side of the video you are currently watching, on the screen immediately after you are done watching or by going to the home page and giving you the options. Using Origin ad-blocker I removed all the immediate suggestions. And also the youtube home button, the only red element of the Youtube gui that catches your notice, that you click on to reduce your anxiety. That you then develop a habit on, just like the suggestions. On mobile I uninstalled the app and used the ad-blocker to render it useless. All external links play videos and the search still works.&lt;p&gt;For reddit I force the old view, without the infinite scroll, just like the author. I also removed the &amp;#x27;all&amp;#x27; link from all the pages as I had formed a habit with that as well. And I limit the number of posts visible at any given time.&lt;p&gt;I have, other than the author&amp;#x27;s solution, no counter for HN.&lt;p&gt;For other websites, I&amp;#x27;ve similarly blocked such habit forming gui features. And the most important bit has been deleting websites from the auto suggest feature of firefox. I&amp;#x27;ve deleted a good number of the common offender websites form it, but I still don&amp;#x27;t know how to disable those ~10 websites that show up when you go to type something.&lt;p&gt;The Key has been disrupting the &amp;#x27;cue&amp;#x27; of the habits. It leaves you a little confused when you don&amp;#x27;t find your habit enabler on the websites, but then it gets better. Or like me you form other new habits. The solution author suggests will definitely be of help.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Words. Also, does anyone know how to disable the dropdown suggestions in the address bar? The one you get when you haven&amp;#x27;t typed anything, because I&amp;#x27;ve got a habit with the dropdown button as well. There is nothing in the options, but what about the developer options?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcthompson</author><text>Most of my Youtube consumption is via youtube-dl run on my server via cron job, with the videos then synced from there to the relevant devices by Syncthing. For things that don&amp;#x27;t have ready-made playlists I can put in cron jobs, I run youtube-dl manually. Then when I&amp;#x27;m ready to watch it, I open the video in VLC and then delete it after I&amp;#x27;m done.&lt;p&gt;I set this up for my convenience, since I often like to consume this media in contexts where I don&amp;#x27;t want to use mobile data, and because back when I set this up my internet speed was inconsistent enough to cause frequent buffering. However, I&amp;#x27;m now realizing it has a lot of benefit in preventing me from ever seeing any of Youtube&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;keep watching more things&amp;quot; UI, &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; it adds substantial latency and effort to any &amp;quot;impulse&amp;quot; watches, since the process is now: decide to watch: copy URL, paste into terminal command, wait up to 10s of minutes for download, go to videos folder, open video.</text></comment>
<story><title>I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit</title><url>https://howonlee.github.io/2020/02/12/I-20Add-2020-20Seconds-20of-20Latency-20to-20Every-20Website-20I-20Visit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtrip</author><text>This is brilliant! I&amp;#x27;ve been suffering from work related anxiety for years which I&amp;#x27;ve learned to douse with Youtube, Reddit or HN. This became a huge problem for me recently and so I had to try to break my habit loops (Cue -&amp;gt; Action -&amp;gt; Reward).&lt;p&gt;I cannot quit cold-turkey because all the methods that I can think of to block the websites I can undo in the mania of anxiety.&lt;p&gt;Youtube always gives you an option to look for more content, either on the side of the video you are currently watching, on the screen immediately after you are done watching or by going to the home page and giving you the options. Using Origin ad-blocker I removed all the immediate suggestions. And also the youtube home button, the only red element of the Youtube gui that catches your notice, that you click on to reduce your anxiety. That you then develop a habit on, just like the suggestions. On mobile I uninstalled the app and used the ad-blocker to render it useless. All external links play videos and the search still works.&lt;p&gt;For reddit I force the old view, without the infinite scroll, just like the author. I also removed the &amp;#x27;all&amp;#x27; link from all the pages as I had formed a habit with that as well. And I limit the number of posts visible at any given time.&lt;p&gt;I have, other than the author&amp;#x27;s solution, no counter for HN.&lt;p&gt;For other websites, I&amp;#x27;ve similarly blocked such habit forming gui features. And the most important bit has been deleting websites from the auto suggest feature of firefox. I&amp;#x27;ve deleted a good number of the common offender websites form it, but I still don&amp;#x27;t know how to disable those ~10 websites that show up when you go to type something.&lt;p&gt;The Key has been disrupting the &amp;#x27;cue&amp;#x27; of the habits. It leaves you a little confused when you don&amp;#x27;t find your habit enabler on the websites, but then it gets better. Or like me you form other new habits. The solution author suggests will definitely be of help.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Words. Also, does anyone know how to disable the dropdown suggestions in the address bar? The one you get when you haven&amp;#x27;t typed anything, because I&amp;#x27;ve got a habit with the dropdown button as well. There is nothing in the options, but what about the developer options?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thegeomaster</author><text>HN has a no-procrastination mode that might be useful. On the settings page, turn on `noprocrast` and then configure `maxvisit` and `mindelay` - HN will force you to wait `mindelay` minutes whenever you have been on there longer than `maxvisit` minutes.&lt;p&gt;Maybe you knew about this already, but posting this anyway as it might be useful to someone else.</text></comment>