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p0358today at 3:42 PM4 repliesview on HN

As someone who used to have actually slow phones before: this will not help your doom-scrolling. You will still doom-scroll, but you'll just be frustrated and miserable due to the lags. You're welcome.


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fhdkweigtoday at 4:00 PM

My solution to doom scrolling on the desktop was to edit my /etc/hosts file to disallow me from going to the offending sites. After a few weeks, the habit was broken and I didn't even miss them anymore.

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d1str0today at 3:56 PM

I think it’s a valiant effort. Sometimes having multiple influences can make it easier to change behavior.

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fsflovertoday at 4:14 PM

Have you tried using NoScript? Works for me (except HN).