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Re:uBlock Origin review by ricw on Saturday September 04, 2021 @01:31AM (#28412337)
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 ;)).

Re:uBlock Origin review by lostlogin on Saturday September 04, 2021 @05:47AM (#28413603)
> 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.

Re:uBlock Origin review by dEnigma on Saturday September 04, 2021 @05:58AM (#28413660)
To Hacker News, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's procrastination problems!
Re:uBlock Origin review by pvm3 on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:02AM (#28412490)
You should try LeechBlock NG [1], it is specifically designed for this.

[1]: https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/install/

Re:uBlock Origin review by Flimm on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:13AM (#28412537)
LeechBlock NG and uBlock Origin work great on Firefox for Android.
Re:uBlock Origin review by taviso on Saturday September 04, 2021 @09:43AM (#28415010)
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)
Re:uBlock Origin review by nicbou on Saturday September 04, 2021 @08:07AM (#28414340)
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.

Re:uBlock Origin review by ethbr0 on Saturday September 04, 2021 @09:38AM (#28414970)
> 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?

Re:uBlock Origin review by nicbou on Saturday September 04, 2021 @12:00PM (#28416218)
That sounds terrifying
Re:uBlock Origin review by ethbr0 on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:06AM (#28424879)
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!

Re:uBlock Origin review by mellosouls on Saturday September 04, 2021 @04:14AM (#28413148)
For HN specifically, you can also tweak the noprocrast settings in your HN profile.
Re:uBlock Origin review by danuker on Saturday September 04, 2021 @07:25AM (#28414116)
Indeed. And block all the other sites. They are inferior anyway!
Re:uBlock Origin review by phatfish on Saturday September 04, 2021 @10:12AM (#28415257)
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 =)

Re:uBlock Origin review by rciorba on Saturday September 04, 2021 @11:02AM (#28415711)
Brilliant!