What is HabitLab?
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HabitLab is an open-source research project from Stanford on helping users reduce their time online. It includes various tools like news feed blockers, comment hiders, and more. HabitLab will try out different tools and figure out what is most effective for you. Data on effectiveness will be recorded for research purposes.
HOW IT WORKS
Tell HabitLab which sites you want to spend less time on. We support all sites, including popular sites like Facebook, Youtube, Reddit, Buzzfeed, Netflix. Each time you visit a site, we will intelligently choose an intervention (which use techniques such as hiding your news feed, hiding comments, pausing videos, showing notifications if you've been on a site too long, and more) to help you reduce your time on the site. If you don’t like an intervention, you can choose to disable it. HabitLab learns which interventions work best for you based on your browsing history and their past effectiveness, and uses this to more effectively help you reduce your time online.
ABOUT
HabitLab is an open-source project developed by the Stanford HCI Group. You can find source code at https://github.com/habitlab/habitlab
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Chrome will ask you for the following permissions when you install. Here’s how we use them:
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- Plenty of customizable tools to block or monitor web browsing
- Helps track habits and improve productivity
- Nudges allow control over time spent on specific sites without complete blocking
- Users find it beneficial for reducing distractions
- Great tool for increasing awareness of browsing habits
- Many features are broken or not functioning properly
- No longer actively maintained, leading to compatibility issues with recent Chrome versions
- Battery draining issues reported by some users
- Limited nudges currently work effectively
- Frequent bugs and errors lead to frustration
- Doesn't work
- Not maintained anymore
- Best productivity extension
- Great extension
- Broken on the latest versions of Chrome
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HabitLab requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
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HabitLab has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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