Re: breaking bad habits like Doodle and Facebook with plugins?

2018-01-17 Thread Stephane Ascoet
Le 17/01/2018 à 18:31, Daniel Pocock a écrit : As well as blocking, does it give the user any encouragement to use alternatives? Another thing that comes to mind after reading that book: is there a way a plugin could reward people for doing the right thing? Rewards are more effective at bringin

Re: breaking bad habits like Doodle and Facebook with plugins?

2018-01-17 Thread Theo Schmidt
Am 17.01.2018 um 18:20 schrieb André Ockers: ... > With the uMatrix plugin I can enable/disable connections to > websites, also when they are backdoor third party to another > website. So you can disable the connections to e.g. FB and that > works on all their websites and their business partners.

Re: breaking bad habits like Doodle and Facebook with plugins?

2018-01-17 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 17/01/18 18:20, André Ockers wrote: > Dear Daniel and list, > > Op woensdag 17 januari 2018 11:56:21 schreef Daniel Pocock: >> Nasty things like Doodle, Meetup and Facebook keep popping up throughout >> FSFE and the wider free software community. Even when we discuss them, >> it is not long

Re: breaking bad habits like Doodle and Facebook with plugins?

2018-01-17 Thread André Ockers
Dear Daniel and list, Op woensdag 17 januari 2018 11:56:21 schreef Daniel Pocock: > Nasty things like Doodle, Meetup and Facebook keep popping up throughout > FSFE and the wider free software community. Even when we discuss them, > it is not long before they pop up again. > > When people are exp

Re: breaking bad habits like Doodle and Facebook with plugins?

2018-01-17 Thread bruno
Daniel Pocock ha scritto: [...] One thing that comes to mind: are there browser plugins and Thunderbird email plugins that can help people avoid visiting or linking to things like Facebook, Meetup, Twitter and Doodle? [...] Yes, there are. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechb

breaking bad habits like Doodle and Facebook with plugins?

2018-01-17 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi all, Habits are a tough thing to break, this is obvious if you know a smoker. I've heard many anecdotes about habits but I never really understood any of the psychology or neuroscience about habits until I recently read the book "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg (Random House, 2013) htt