louisbarclay

It's not done at all - and there are no top lists. It's a vacuum. The main ray of hope here is the EU's Digital Services Act, which will hopefully force them to provide info

This is an awesome awesome list! Thank you for adding /about and /ideas! It also reminded me to have a proper look for awesome-personal-sites or similar, and there are a few:

https://github.com/logancyang/awesome-personal-websites

https://github.com/christopherkade/awesome-dev-websites

https://github.com/tk-notes/awesome-personal-websites

Oh wow, that is so cool! We hadn't come across it, nice UX too. Thanks for posting

.er TLD does exist, but not available for registration AFAIK

But since you mention GambiNO, if I were to move to Norway and become resident, I could claim gambi.no, I think it's available

I'd then have to petition Glover to also move to Norway to take ownership of it

Seems pretty doable. Will start checking Zillow for Oslo

Love it - will add a section with more innovative approaches like this

e.g. was just chatting with a fellow cease-and-desist receiver, Mohammed Shah, who finds comfort in using a different misspelling for the name of the lawyer harassing him, every time he replies

Great for morale

Thanks brother. By which I mean, you are literally my brother

I am completely unclear on whether publishing your project open source gives it (at least, the code, if not any deployed version) any kind of protection if Facebook etc. target it

I would love to get a lawyer's take on that, although I guess it would differ by jurisdiction - California and Ireland are probably the two key ones for most big tech

Good point. And thinking about it, I know cases where people have received C&Ds anyway while only using official APIs and services. Will edit

Yep, that's true - also something I need to reflect in the guide is it's important to understand which jurisdiction you're under, since that'll affect your rights

Usually the terms of service you sign up to make it clear which jurisdiction disputes would be adjudicated in

For me, as a UK citizen/resident it was Ireland. Which is great since I've never been there, but I've heard their courtrooms are lovely in the springtime

super useful to know - could I interview you about this to add to the guide? you can find contact details on my personal site louis.work

After they kicked the guy out of the store, they told him that for the rest of his life he can't help anyone else use the store less, because he was once in the store

> It got more upvotes because of the errant Show HN than it would have otherwise.

I'll trust you on that and reiterate my apologies. I have never thought that Show HNs get more votes by default (look at the Show HNs in my history, you'll see they got absolutely nowhere), and was not trying to game the system.

> More significantly though, this doesn't feel very on topic for HN

I thought that this was mostly determined by whether or not the HN community upvotes a link. I personally do think there's a role for (perhaps infrequent) satire about certain quite cringe-inducing types of articles you get here. I saw a similar piece the other day - can't recall the link though.

Ah, this is my bad. Sorry. I thought I saw a Show HN the other day that linked to a blog post. And I also did it because the ‘How’ got removed from the title when I tried it originally, which I guess is house style. Is this why the post has been taken down from front page? If so, is that fair given it was an honest mistake?

Thanks a lot! Just to clarify, I’m not taking myself down (I’m really happy with where Cloakist is at) - I just felt like writing some satire to mock all similar serious articles in that genre, including my own. And congrats on the awesome work at Cronitor!

Good point. I had that debate with myself. And I concluded that since I'm going to be adding quite a few domains to Unweb in the near future, and since I don't want users to be asked for new permissions every time they install a new version (which is a potential churn point), I preferred to go with the <all_urls> permission for the hiding content script.

This is inline with what similar extensions like Motion (YC W20, http://inmotion.app/) do. But I do really sympathise and I'm sorry that this was a bad experience.

Incidentally there's a cost (aside from user trust) to doing it this way, which is that the Web Store takes far longer to review your extension - which hopefully means they do a good job of checking the permissions aren't being used malevolently.

Hi HN,

I built Unweb which is like adblock for distracting stuff. It default-hides things like feeds, related content etc. on popular sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, HN, LinkedIn. You can always show these distractions when you need them using a 'Show' button. So you lose the initial temptation, not the functionality.

Let me know what you think. My background: made another anti-distraction extension, Nudge, with over 2,000 WAU and 5 stars.

Cheers, Louis

Aha, that's an interesting thought. Nudge theory is exactly why I've named the extension Nudge. It's a theory that was designed for good, by Thaler and Sunstein - the idea being to alter default environments so that people find it easier to make better decisions. Classic examples are auto-enrolling people in pension plans, or placing a fly on a urinal so that men aim better. You're right though in that more recently it's sometimes used to describe UX dark patterns, B. F. Skinner-style.

Hey HN!

I've been working on Nudge as a side project for a while now but have never launched it anywhere, hence the post. Nudge has 6 different interventions to make the internet less addictive:

1. Addictive sites are off by default, and you have to drag a slider to visit

2. 'You've scrolled 20 screens down this page' 3. Colorful rainbow grows in the corner of the page the longer you spend there

4. Hides ads that sites put in to keep you there longer e.g. YouTube Related Videos, Twitter trending

5. Unfollows all your friends, pages and groups on Facebook, effectively deleting your News Feed

6. Makes Facebook grey

Nudge has 2.75k users and a 4.8 star rating on Chrome Web Store. I'd love to hear what you think. The code is visible here: https://github.com/lgwb89/nudge

https://nudgeware.io

Cheers, Louis

You are welcome to! Just pay for your subscription in the usual way but print slightly different business cards (which Nudge unfortunately won't be able to pay for)