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>I use Tampermonkey scripts on a couple of social networking sites deliberately to slow them down so I'll that I'll be less likely to impulsively refresh them.

• danShumway 8y ago
  Do you mean through the dev tools? That would require me to leave the dev tools open while I browsed. I would also need to manually turn it on, which defeats the purpose of it being an automatic thing that interrupts an instinctual behavior. I don't see an API anywhere that makes network throttling available to extensions, but let's assume Chrome adds one. In that case, it still lacks granularity -- I only want to slow down some requests on some sites. One thing I've been thinking about doing if I turn this into its own extension is having it respond to your aggregate time on a site. So the more time you spend on a social site, the slower it gets, but if it's been closed for a while it starts to "recharge" and speed up again. In particular I'm thinking about that for sites like Twitter, where I don't mind checking it so much as browsing it. There's a lot of interesting stuff that's possible with the current API that can't be replicated by just saying, "slow down everything across the board."