In order to quit the Internet, I automatically add a 3-25 second access delay to each website

There are many amazing facts in the software industry. The income of the consumer network and the potential source of income (whether it is visits or sales) are closely related to visit delays. This is based on considerations such as preventing users from jumping out and increasing conversion rates.

related data:

Amazon finds that it loses 1% of sales every 100ms delay (link 1)
Learn how to create a visit benchmark for mobile page visit speed (link 2)
How loading time affects your bottom line (link 3)

However, if more money can be made from customers while reducing delays, there is a certain power to increase delays.

In fact, I discovered something a few months ago that stemmed from my use of consumer networks. Almost everyone who writes software is using consumer networks and will overdo it. As a true computer practitioner, I am no exception.

In fact, I used to overuse the Internet. I have been online 24 hours a day (my colleague asks: "Are you worried about blood clotting?"-you walk away).

Addiction is actually the opposite of jumping off the site.

Therefore, if you can artificially add a delay to the website, you can reduce the actual impact of Internet addiction in a controlled way without making you unable to enjoy the Internet.

Hacker News with a delay of 100 milliseconds is like spirits: Hacker News with a delay of 9000 milliseconds feels like pale beer.
A Reddit website with a delay of 150 milliseconds feels like poison: a Reddit website with a delay of 8000ms feels like coffee.

The purpose of increasing the barrier is to cause a psychological reaction.

This is a bit like a beneficial dilution of heavy use of the Internet. This is similar to the way the ancient Greeks drank alcohol. They drank alcohol but did not like to drink undiluted alcohol, thinking that the practice was equivalent to barbarism.

How to do

Users can usually access the network in two basic ways. On laptops and desktop computers, you can control important parts of the computing environment; on mobile devices and tablet computers, the access range that can be controlled is slightly smaller.

For a web browser in a laptop or desktop computer, the best choice is Crackbook Revival (4). It has a fully configurable site list and has the option of linearly increasing the amount of access delay as the access time increases.

For other applications on your laptop or desktop, please open Charles Proxy (5) and use its restriction function. In addition to using it as its own function as a developer tool, you only need to open it permanently.

On iOS, turn on the developer mode, and then permanently turn on the network link adjuster (6).

Android is more troublesome. Either open Charles Proxy on the Android connection proxy (only via WiFi), or connect it to the iPhone with the network link regulator turned on as a hotspot.

Some other anti-addiction methods

If it is put on the website by someone like me and it is an incentive to do things online, it may be a certain degree of function blocking, lower latency, or some other functional impairment, so that you can To some extent, he returned to a normal person.

I like this worship of cruelty. You don't have to imitate me. This is what I want to do.

Some of my methods:

Use adblock to block YouTube’s variable pictures, user avatars, trailers with annoying avatars, logos, etc.
Do not consider the possibility of browsing the web without adblock (not bad)
Use extensions to delete comments shown on Youtube
Mandatory use of the old style on Reddit, no infinite scroll
Withdraw from Reddit and move to HackerNews and paid forums in the early 2000s
Delete Facebook. Now it is too special, complicated and prejudiced, so I won’t repeat it here.

Indeed, I have downplayed my access to the Internet. I downplay it because now it seems to exist only as a spirit.

Links in the article:

https://www.gigaspaces.com/blog/amazon-found-every-100ms-of-latency-cost-them-1-in-sales/
https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-resources/data-measurement/mobile-page-speed-new-industry-benchmarks/
https://neilpatel.com/blog/loading-time/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/crackbook-revival/fakedinbmdjifniaepnfbplcheaecebc?hl=en
https://www.charlesproxy.com/
https://nshipster.com/network-link-conditioner/

Original link:
https://howonlee.github.io/2020/02/12/I-20Add-2020-20Seconds-20of-20Latency-20to-20Every-20Website-20I-20Visit.html

Do you have any good experiences to share in preventing internet addiction? Welcome to leave a message (not counting the increase in current).