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I think the author wants to prevent his/her compulsive clicking of links. I can relate to that, as I tend to open a lot of content without second-guessing. I a
by ahub 6y ago
I think the author wants to prevent his/her compulsive clicking of links. I can relate to that, as I tend to open a lot of content without second-guessing.
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's not only slow, it's also full of CAPTCHAs. Most websites using cloudflare ask me to "prove I'm human". Annoying as it might seem, it's my ultimate "anti-compulsive-click" tool.
If I don't bother filling a captcha and/or waiting a few (~10-20) seconds to read something online, is it worth it ?
Most likelly not.
- ve55 6y agoI've done this as well, and it's often made me happier and saved me time. It made me realize most links that I open I don't care to read, and often just the headline or a few sentences about a topic is the best signal/noise ratio and use of my time. This is especially the case for most news/politics/event articles (although in that case I'd not even bother with most headlines either).
- outime 6y agoWe’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/web archive. [1] https://www.hostingmanual.net/3-seconds-how-website-speed-impacts-visitors-sales/ https://www.hostingmanual.net/3-seconds-how-website-speed-im...
- arafa 6y agoAnother accidental method I found was leaving Javascript off by default. It's a bit more granular since websites experience different levels of breakage (if any) without JS. But it makes me similarly thoughtful. I can't count the amount of times I've clicked back on personal blogs (via HN) that don't load because of JS. And IEEE. It seems to be a good filter so far.
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- ignoramous 6y ago> To circumvent censorship in my country, I began regularly using a tor proxy. Depending on your ISP's firewall implementation, you may not need to use a Tor proxy or a VPN. https://getintra.org https://getintra.org (and its forks) should be more than enough [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24612486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24612486
- ip26 6y agoMy version of this has been saving news to a reader. I read very few articles in the moment, it's all pushed onto the reader stack. 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. Maybe it's like the news version of sleeping on a purchasing decision. See if you still care about it tomorrow.
- input_sh 6y agoI do pretty much the same. If it takes longer than like 10-20 seconds to get through, it goes straight into Pocket. I then pick up my Kobo reader (built in Pocket support) which is usually on my living room desk when I feel like reading a thing or two. Usually during morning coffees or over the weekend. Two problems I have: I can't highlight stuff on Kobo, so I have to awkwardly highlight them on my phone when I find something interesting, and I have used this method for many, many years to the point where it'd take me months of non-stop reading to go through all of them. And I remove like 70% of the saved articles within the first week.
- matheusmoreira 6y agoPeople need to fill out captchas to read web pages now? What happened to the internet?
- cookiengineer 6y agoCloudflare happened. Deanonymizing users since 2009 with their captchas. TOR in practice became pretty much unusable in censored countries because of it.