Some even allow notifications and messages to disrupt their sleep.
WTF is wrong with people!?
Someone with, for instance, older kids who could get themselves into a situation (and only communicate by text) and a parent in a different time zone who’s got Alzheimer’s and is being cared for by a stressed-out sibling who needs support and agreement from the rest of us by group email.
Isn’t it possible to allow-list certain numbers?
Yes. Android for example has an option to allow starred contacts or certain conversation notifications to always ignore do not disturb, as well as letting any calls through if the same number calls twice during 15 minutes.
I’d love to use that feature, but it just seems so ineffective on my android. Things I whitelist fail to show, and things I blacklist pop up.
The BuzzKill app is amazing for this, imo.
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I sometimes forget to turn on do not disturb so this has definitely happened to me before ¯\(ツ)/¯
Sleep by Android and I’m sure some other apps turn it on for you when you plug it in at night, then turn it off when your alarm goes.
I’m pretty sure that forgetting and allowing are two very different things.
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…because of anxiety from doomscrolling and notifications
Lovely paywall. Super interesting.
Ehrenmann
Block cookies or delete yours. Super easy.
Or different browsers. Wired is soft paywall, iirc 5 articles a month. Like you said, super easy
They also paywall some ad-blockers.
Honest question. Which ones? On mobile uBlock Origin/ Firefox and Cromite with easy list etc. don’t seem to have a problem with it. Mulch will hit the pay wall, but that doesn’t have ad blocking.
I use Block This! on my Android device, which essentially a pseudo-VPN that blackholes ad requests (as well as some trackers and miscellany). Wired bounces me immediately if I have it enabled.
Indeed, that is just an ad blocker. I looked at their github and it hasn’t been updated in 7 years.
For good basic ad blocking you might want to try something like https://controld.com/free-dns which works well. No app required, just set it in your DNS on Android.
If you want more finetuning look at the app https://www.rethinkdns.com/
For bypassing pay walls you want something like Cromite (Chromium) or better Firefox, or a privacy fork like Mull.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” has been my model 😉 And Wired aside, it does work phenomenally well. But I will take a look at your suggestion.
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Pretty easy stuff? Not sure why you’re mad
