disengaged

One effective thing I'm doing for myself (hard do to on mobile, or for kids in general) is to use the Firefox addon 'disengaged'. It hides upvotes, likes, and recommendations. https://github.com/a13o/disengaged/blob/master/CODE_OF_ETHIC...

I've worked on some rules for this in my similarly motivated extension Disengaged[0]. Another thing it does which I think helps a lot is automatically collapses subreplies. [0] https://github.com/a13o/disengaged

I wrote a browser extension to collapse HN comments past the first depth and ended up just attaching their css classes and setting the sub-comment count myself. It was the fastest behavior I could find at the time for reasons I've since forgotten. I did try to use their existing js but it took forever to collapse the page. Here's my collapse code if interested https://github.com/a13o/disengaged/blob/master/src/hacker-ne...

I wrote a browser extension last year to hide like counts and such from the sites I visit and it definitely changes your browsing behavior for the better. Reacting to those vanity numbers is similar to slowing down to rubberneck. Here's the repo if anyone is interested. I still use it to this day but haven't worked on it in a while cuz I'm learning rust. https://github.com/a13o/disengaged

Use this browser plugin which hides things like comment karma on HN and stop letting these numbers affect your well-being in the first place https://github.com/a13o/disengaged

I wrote a firefox plugin that removes likes/follows/upvotes/hearts style vanity counters from a bunch of websites. It absolutely makes them better to use. This is a good change. I had a middle-of-the-road idea in this area too, which is to replace the number with the magnitude. So you still get the feedback from the vanity metric, but it happens with logarithmic decay. A more detailed write-up (and repo for the plugin) for those interested: https://github.com/a13o/disengaged/wiki#replace-vanity-count...

I've been working on an Addiction Blocker for this site and many others. It's not ready for primetime yet but I offer it as a preview to the addicted participants of this thread https://github.com/a13o/disengaged

I'm working on a similar plugin! https://github.com/a13o/disengaged May I ask if scripts like this require a lot of upkeep to stay on top of site changes? I already noticed YouTube has a lot of different layouts based on platform and browser