Rambling on the subject of UI frustrations, and the modern age of customizable software.
You can just have a self authored browser extension. Once I realized this, it took ten minutes to follow a browser extension hello world tutorial, and five minutes to purge all youtube shorts straight to hell.
It turns out that this was actually the only thing I wanted to change about any websites I visited, all other changes I desired were of the shape “stop visiting this website” which is harder to fix with software.
Also, if anyone gets the brilliant idea to make relentless-creative-resourcefullness-bench after reading this post, message me. I will venmo you a dollar to not do that. Cobra paradox be damned.
It turns out that this was actually the only thing I wanted to change about any websites I visited, all other changes I desired were of the shape “stop visiting this website” which is harder to fix with software.
It should be possible to do that with a browser extension which substitutes pages from an unwanted site with a blank page or with a page with a “self-prohibition notice” or just redirects elsewhere (of course, nothing prevents a user from disabling the extension).
I may have a bit of a trapped prior that browser extensions written by other people are either malicious, or will auto-update to become malicious in the future.
Rambling on the subject of UI frustrations, and the modern age of customizable software.
You can just have a self authored browser extension. Once I realized this, it took ten minutes to follow a browser extension hello world tutorial, and five minutes to purge all youtube shorts straight to hell.
It turns out that this was actually the only thing I wanted to change about any websites I visited, all other changes I desired were of the shape “stop visiting this website” which is harder to fix with software.
Also, if anyone gets the brilliant idea to make relentless-creative-resourcefullness-bench after reading this post, message me. I will venmo you a dollar to not do that. Cobra paradox be damned.
It should be possible to do that with a browser extension which substitutes pages from an unwanted site with a blank page or with a page with a “self-prohibition notice” or just redirects elsewhere (of course, nothing prevents a user from disabling the extension).
I think at that point you should just get https://freedom.to/, which is already pretty optimized.
I may have a bit of a trapped prior that browser extensions written by other people are either malicious, or will auto-update to become malicious in the future.