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In my opinion, you should try to understand why the news make you sad rather than blocking them. By the way, if you miss Google results quality, Startpage is l
by antpls 6y ago
In my opinion, you should try to understand why the news make you sad rather than blocking them.
By the way, if you miss Google results quality, Startpage is like DDG, but backed by Google results.
- hrktb 6y agoHasn't news consumption been identified as an almost guaranteed source of sadness and anger for a while now ? An example of article going more into the details: https://time.com/5125894/is-reading-news-bad-for-you/ https://time.com/5125894/is-reading-news-bad-for-you/
- antpls 6y agoThe same article also says it is natural to read news to stay informed and gives the exact same advice as I do : "“Try to be aware of how [the news] changes your mood or makes your thoughts more negative,” Davey advises. Breuning agrees, and recommends limiting your news consumption to one block of time each day—say, at lunch or before dinner—if not less. At the very least, don’t watch or read the news before bed, she says."
- hrktb 6y agoWe might be talking past each other. I think we’re agreeing on news causing anger/stress/sadness as a well known issue, and also that some amount of news is beneficial but it should be controlled and limited at an individual level (which the parent has been doing, by only looking at it consciously through amp)