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I recently discovered that it also acts as a great anti-productivity page blocker. Simply add your top social and news addiction pages to the blacklist and you’

by ricw 5y ago

I recently discovered that it also acts as a great anti-productivity page blocker. Simply add your top social and news addiction pages to the blacklist and you’re set. I use Firefox only for work, which has helped me immensely to stay focused and not “just quickly check hacker news for the tenth time in an hour” (as much as I like to ;)).

pvm3 5y ago
You should try LeechBlock NG [1], it is specifically designed for this. [1]: https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/install/ https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/install/
- Flimm 5y ago
  LeechBlock NG and uBlock Origin work great on Firefox for Android.
mellosouls 5y ago
For HN specifically, you can also tweak the noprocrast settings in your HN profile.
- danuker 5y ago
  Indeed. And block all the other sites. They are inferior anyway!
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lostlogin 5y ago
> Simply add your top social and news addiction pages to the blacklist and you’re set. It’ll make finding tips like this much harder.
- dEnigma 5y ago
  To Hacker News, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's procrastination problems!
nicbou 5y ago
On my phone, I blocked the feeds for Hacker News, Reddit and a few other sites. I blocked notification badges on most sites. I can still get to individual pages from Google, but I can't mindlessly browse those websites. It's really effective. I don't even know what to do with my phone any more.
- ethbr0 5y ago
  > I don't even know what to do with my phone any more. I hear there's some way you can use an app on your phone to have a voice conversation with someone else, but apparently you need to know a magic number?
  - nicbou 5y ago
    That sounds terrifying
    - ethbr0 5y ago
      Seems like incredibly poor market fit. I'm told there was even a time when the number only addressed a location, so you would have to figure out who was talking on the other end through a complex linguistic handshake. And it didn't even have identity authentication, past a basic voiceprint!
taviso 5y ago
I do something similar, I noticed that a link to a tweet in an article that I'm reading will always result in me clicking through and then wasting time catching up. I used this filter, it makes twitter links look like normal text: ##a[href*="twitter.com"]:style(pointer-events: none!important; text-decoration: inherit!important; color: inherit!important)
phatfish 5y ago
Yes, the ability to block parts of pages is handy too. I've not taken to blocking whole sites yet. But sites with "recommendations" attached to every page are a real distraction. I block them on stackoverflow, otherwise I end up reading about the etymology of some obscure word or advice for a dungeon master in a weird D&D scenario =)
- rciorba 5y ago
  Brilliant!

by ricw 5y ago

pvm3 5y ago

You should try LeechBlock NG [1], it is specifically designed for this. [1]: https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/install/ https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/install/

Flimm 5y ago
LeechBlock NG and uBlock Origin work great on Firefox for Android.

mellosouls 5y ago

For HN specifically, you can also tweak the noprocrast settings in your HN profile.

danuker 5y ago
Indeed. And block all the other sites. They are inferior anyway!

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lostlogin 5y ago

> Simply add your top social and news addiction pages to the blacklist and you’re set. It’ll make finding tips like this much harder.

dEnigma 5y ago
To Hacker News, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's procrastination problems!

nicbou 5y ago

On my phone, I blocked the feeds for Hacker News, Reddit and a few other sites. I blocked notification badges on most sites. I can still get to individual pages from Google, but I can't mindlessly browse those websites. It's really effective. I don't even know what to do with my phone any more.

ethbr0 5y ago
> I don't even know what to do with my phone any more. I hear there's some way you can use an app on your phone to have a voice conversation with someone else, but apparently you need to know a magic number?
- nicbou 5y ago
  That sounds terrifying
  - ethbr0 5y ago
    Seems like incredibly poor market fit. I'm told there was even a time when the number only addressed a location, so you would have to figure out who was talking on the other end through a complex linguistic handshake. And it didn't even have identity authentication, past a basic voiceprint!

taviso 5y ago

I do something similar, I noticed that a link to a tweet in an article that I'm reading will always result in me clicking through and then wasting time catching up. I used this filter, it makes twitter links look like normal text: ##a[href*="twitter.com"]:style(pointer-events: none!important; text-decoration: inherit!important; color: inherit!important)

phatfish 5y ago

Yes, the ability to block parts of pages is handy too. I've not taken to blocking whole sites yet. But sites with "recommendations" attached to every page are a real distraction. I block them on stackoverflow, otherwise I end up reading about the etymology of some obscure word or advice for a dungeon master in a weird D&D scenario =)

rciorba 5y ago
Brilliant!