I’m getting more aggressive about injecting css into websites, particularly the ones that I reliably unblock if I just block them.
/* kill youtube shorts */
ytd-rich-section-renderer {
display: none !important;
}
/* kill recommended sidebar on youtube */
.ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer {
display: none !important;
}
/* youtube comments sections are probably not lifechanging value */
.ytd-comments {
display: none !important;
}
/* youtube algorithmic feed is killed by disabling and clearing history */
/* disable lesswrong short post zone*/
.QuickTakesSection-list{
display: none !important;
}
/* you may have one page of lesswrong top level posts */
.LoadMore-root {
display: none !important;
}
/* disable the lesswrong feed that suggests individual engaging comments */
.UltraFeed-root {
display: none !important;
}
/* no checking karma. for validation you're going to have to write well enough for verbal praise */
.LWPostsItem-karma {
display: none !important;
}
.KarmaChangeNotifier-karmaNotifierButton{
display: none !important;
}
.NamesAttachedReactionsVoteOnComment-root{
display: none !important;
}
/* hacker news is great. You may not have the second page of hacker news */
.morelink {
display: none !important;
}
/* or hacker news comments */
.subline a {
display: none !important;
}
/* keep reddit comment sections because otherwise, if I need to access a reddit comment section from a google search, I do so by disabling the entire blocking system. Ban the reddit algorithmic feeds. */
.linklisting {
display: none !important;
}
.theme-rpl {
display: none !important;
}
You’re substantially more principled about it than I am. I just load my Ublock custom list up with filters targeted at elements I don’t like. When websites randomly obfuscate CSS elements, I follow it up with ‘clever’ use of `:has-text`.
Good question @David James ! I struggle with maintaining a long term block of social media, because there’s very little that I can’t get around, and I have cripplingly little self control in the moment- the basic issue is that I have no history of making promises to myself and then keeping them. This is just a problem which I have to engineer around. The whole line of thought may not be relevant for people who can just decide not to do a thing.
Disabling more buttons and infinite scroll is particularly effective because looking at the front page of hacker news reliably provides in the moment evidence that the second page of hacker news is unlikely to contain nirvana, but looking at a (hacker news blocked) page makes the first page of hacker news seem so tempting and sweet to pursue.
@Hastings … I don’t think I made a comment in this thread—and I don’t see one when I look. I wonder if you are replying to a different one? Link it if you find it?
For less web-programming-savvy people—you can use Unhook extension for browser (for YouTube only). Less specified but more general blocking: LeechBlock.
I’m getting more aggressive about injecting css into websites, particularly the ones that I reliably unblock if I just block them.
You’re substantially more principled about it than I am. I just load my Ublock custom list up with filters targeted at elements I don’t like. When websites randomly obfuscate CSS elements, I follow it up with ‘clever’ use of `:has-text`.
Good question @David James !
I struggle with maintaining a long term block of social media, because there’s very little that I can’t get around, and I have cripplingly little self control in the moment- the basic issue is that I have no history of making promises to myself and then keeping them. This is just a problem which I have to engineer around. The whole line of thought may not be relevant for people who can just decide not to do a thing.
Disabling more buttons and infinite scroll is particularly effective because looking at the front page of hacker news reliably provides in the moment evidence that the second page of hacker news is unlikely to contain nirvana, but looking at a (hacker news blocked) page makes the first page of hacker news seem so tempting and sweet to pursue.
@Hastings … I don’t think I made a comment in this thread—and I don’t see one when I look. I wonder if you are replying to a different one? Link it if you find it?
For less web-programming-savvy people—you can use Unhook extension for browser (for YouTube only). Less specified but more general blocking: LeechBlock.