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Ask HN: How to solve HN-loop?
Not just HN, but the entire internet is becoming too much of a timesuck for me, so despite the irony I thought that I should come to HN and ask if there is something like Leechblock, but for Chrome.
StayFocusd and Chrome Nanny don't cut it for me, because I am looking for something that can block every single site, except for the ones I specify. (Even better if it can give 5 mins of unblocked browsing every 2 hours or so)
And to prove my point, I only came here just then to ask this question, but ended up spending 8 minutes reading articles before jumping back to this tab....
Reminds me of this:
youtube loop (urbandict): When you go to watch a quick 30 second video on YouTube and regain consciousness hours later having jumped from interesting video to interesting video.
- smiler 16y agoYou could try - K9 Web protection But I am still battling this myself - discipline is what it takes. I'm travelling this weekend for work and stuck in a hotel with rate capped internet (0.5mbit). It's so slow for browsing it's unbelievable. Yesterday I managed around 16 hours of work because I just got so fed up with the internet speed that I gave up browsing. So you could try that - download all the docs you need, get all the development tools setup on your local machine and then just go somewhere with no internet.
- driverdan 16y agoYou could try learning some self control. Just stop going to sites that take up your time.
- djgibbon 16y agoTry using Chrome Nanny and setting the blocked URL to . It sometimes takes a second or two after startup to kick in, but it works. Make sure you set your home page to Google and whitelist it beforehand!