[HN Gopher] TabBoo - add random jumpscares to websites you're tr...
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TabBoo - add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid
Author : thatsnotoptimal
Score : 320 points
Date : 2025-01-22 17:27 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| ancientstraits wrote:
| This is a very unexpected way to try combatting addiction. I
| don't know how well it will work, but I will consider it.
| mordechai9000 wrote:
| Negative reinforcement. There's a strategy for smoking where
| you put a wad of hair in your cigarettes. I used nicotine
| patches myself, so I can't speak to the efficacy.
| thfuran wrote:
| As someone who has smelled burning hair, it at least sounds
| plausible. On the other hand, cigarette smoke already doesn't
| smell good.
| yapyap wrote:
| people who smoke on the daily have already tuned out
| cigarette smoke mentally, the burning hair however is
| rancid to anyone.
| junon wrote:
| Definitely not always true. I smoke, I hate it, I've
| tried to quit several times. The smoke smell has never
| repulsed me but I find it to smell terrible. Many people
| I know who smoke are the same.
|
| It's a constant reminder that you're killing yourself for
| miniscule amounts of Feel Good chemicals at a time.
| t-3 wrote:
| I've always enjoyed the smell of tobacco smoke. It's
| nowhere near as astringent and repulsive as woodsmoke and
| good tobacco often has a nice nearly floral scent or a
| sweet smell. The taste and the tearing up my throat and
| making my breath bad and the expense are all things I can
| do without though.
|
| Does anyone else get _seasonal_ nicotine cravings? In the
| warmer months, I don 't even think about smoking unless I
| drink, but in winter I often can't sleep for craving a
| cigarette, even when it's been literally years since the
| last one.
| pineaux wrote:
| That is the lie you tell yourself. But smoking doesn't
| give you Feel Good chemicals. It temporarily resets the
| clock of slowly building Feel Bad chemicals back to zero
| or back to lower. Its basically the same as saying:
| releasing that string - that I wound around my big toe -
| every once in a while gives me Feel Good chemicals. You
| are just relieving stress that has been created by the
| tobacco.
| danielbln wrote:
| Cigarette smoke is vile, but burned hair is another level.
| Tade0 wrote:
| To that I raise: crude oil
|
| Unbelievable how its products separately don't smell
| nearly as bad.
| 3PS wrote:
| Nit: that's not what negative reinforcement means. Negative
| reinforcement is about removing a negative stimulus, like
| inducing someone to go to a desirable website by improving
| their initially bad text contrast whenever they go there.
|
| In this case, jumpscaring yourself would just be considered
| punishment (or "positive punishment").
| spoonfeeder006 wrote:
| There's also Allen Carr's books about treating addiction, and
| they don't use negative reinforcement, at least the ones I've
| read
|
| Rather it helps you learn to recognize the fallacies behind
| the addictive cravings themselves, and to thus resolve the
| core of why you turn to that in the first place
|
| Still have to make the decision to recall those in the
| moment, but when you do you do neutralize the cravings
|
| His first book was Easy Way to Stop Smoking
|
| For digital addiction there's Smart Phone, Dumb Phone
|
| For internet porn there's easypeasymethod.org (based on
| EasyWay to Stop Smoking)
| epolanski wrote:
| I know two people that quit with that book, both more than
| 20 years ago. One restarted few years ago, the other one
| never smoked again.
| djtango wrote:
| Love this.
|
| The example wasn't scary enough but it's pretty fun
| iammrpayments wrote:
| Combat addiction with PTSD
| chrislongss wrote:
| I know this is a joke, but iirc there used to be certain
| procedures that would surgically implant something physically
| harmful into an addicts arm to scare them into soberness. Like
| a capsule maybe?.. Can't remember the details. And if the
| person were to start drinking alcohol again, the capsule would
| break down and release a chemical into their bloodstream.
| 331c8c71 wrote:
| i looked it up. disulfiram subdermal implants. just proves i
| need this extension for firefox %(
| ioblomov wrote:
| Suspect you may be thinking of this...
|
| > Disulfiram (Antabuse) changes the way your body breaks down
| alcohol. If you drink while taking it, you get sick.
|
| https://www.webmd.com/mental-
| health/addiction/features/fight...
| mariopt wrote:
| Not really, MeatSpin is missing
| Willingham wrote:
| Also works great for low blood pressure issues
| nottorp wrote:
| I wonder if a kitty or puppy of diabetes inducing cuteness would
| have the same effect.
| Tepix wrote:
| Great, can we please have it for Firefox, too?
| Cortex5936 wrote:
| I love the idea ! Is there also a way to make sure you cannot
| remove these types of extensions ? Something open source and not
| sketchy that makes it possible to either set a password (that
| you'll not save) or be removed only if you reinstall the browser.
| Something to this liking ?
| chippiewill wrote:
| I don't think any browser vendor would expose an API to allow
| this.
|
| I think the best you could manage is a system administrative
| profile that forces the browser to install the extension
| abound wrote:
| Or, depending on how serious you are, you could modify the
| browser source to make it unremovable, at least for Chromium
| or Firefox
| suddenclarity wrote:
| You could write your own OS software that polls your browser
| for installed extensions and then nukes your internet
| connection through the host file if you disable the extension.
| Cold Turkey kinda does this by automatically closing your
| browser during a blocked session if you disable their
| extension.
|
| The challenge is that there's always a workaround. The added
| friction might be enough to fulfil your need though.
| yumraj wrote:
| Only for Chrome?
| msobriquet wrote:
| oh my god is there a firefox version?
| IncreasePosts wrote:
| A fun idea, but I am so hesitant to install extensions that have
| access to any URL. I don't know who this developer is, so how can
| I know they won't accept $10k to sell their extension to some
| malware group that will try to exfil all of my banking
| credentials after updating this extension?
| patrickhogan1 wrote:
| This is a good point and I haven't read the manifest as I'm in
| a bit of a rush. Chrome did do a lot of work improving the
| manifest for conditions like this in v3. I know with webRequest
| you have to specify urls but not sure if there is a separation
| of duties here in terms of
|
| 1. Permission to operate on any url page loaded locally and
| being able to modify the html/insert html like the clown image
|
| 2. Being able to webRequest http outbound to <any_url> where
| you could exfiltrate data.
|
| I thought there was a way to insert html into any loaded page
| without having access to send outbound network requests.
|
| If that is the case that it's separate if the chrome extension
| were to be sold and the manifest were changed to allow
| nefarious behavior you would know.
| renewiltord wrote:
| This is quite the problem with the chrome extension ecosystem.
| It is rife with malware. How does someone build an extension
| that can promise better behaviour. There doesn't seem to be a
| way to restrict oneself.
|
| Even manifest changes aren't "scary enough".
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| It's worse. Even if you DO know and trust the developer, in a
| year or two, they're probably going to get an email from a nice
| man who will want to buy their extension for $10,000, and
| they've long gotten bored of it, so why not?
| ok_dad wrote:
| I would hope that these days the popular extension devs would
| know about this type of attack and would guard against it by
| perhaps selling the extension code but shutting down the
| original extension page under their control so users have to
| choose to install the new company's extension. As a matter of
| fact, why won't Google/Mozilla prevent this by making an
| extension and a person's account inseparable, and have legal
| language in the ToS that says they can't sell the extension
| as-is with the install base to a new company? It would
| prevent so much.
| alasarmas wrote:
| I remember reading somewhere that, in times long past, if a
| company name was of the form "Johnson and Sons" (for
| example), it would be considered fraud to sell that company
| outside of the named family.
|
| I personally think you're on to something with tying
| companies to the reputation of specific natural persons,
| but I don't think that is where we are going anytime soon.
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| That'd be interesting, but imagine how poorly it'd work
| given how often medium/large companies change hands. Heck,
| when Google itself became a subsidiary of Alphabet, it
| didn't require everyone to create new "Alphabet" accounts
| and replace Google Chrome with Alphabet Chrome.
|
| Although...I'm not necessarily opposed to that. Companies
| can change names and ownership a little too easily. Making
| it painful might help some things.
| jslakro wrote:
| That would be the right thing but browsers are not
| interested in adding friction to an ecosystem that already
| has its own rules. Extensions offer a lot of value to users
| witjout any effort from the browser companies
| moralestapia wrote:
| Easy solution. Don't install it.
| e44858 wrote:
| An extension like this should be relatively small. Download the
| source code, read it to make sure nothing bad is happening,
| then install it from source so it doesn't get automatically
| updated.
| valorzard wrote:
| Five Nights at Freddie's - browser extension mode
| ants_everywhere wrote:
| What if it just makes me addicted to jump scares? :-P
| d3rockk wrote:
| Babe wake up, new hacker prank just dropped.
| LeifCarrotson wrote:
| The only difference between an anti-addiction tool and a prank
| is whose computer you install it on.
| BJones12 wrote:
| Great name, with two accurate meanings. TabBoo -> taboo, tab boo
| unethical_ban wrote:
| This is so goofy, I assume the clever name was the genesis of the
| idea. Old school, off-the-wall.
| yapyap wrote:
| love it
| ashton314 wrote:
| I love that the example video shows someone adding HN to the
| jump-scare list. I should probably do that...
| telesilla wrote:
| Oh warning please! I got a demo jumpscare and almost had a
| household of very upset kids from the scream and my almost-heart
| attack reaction. Well done!
|
| For those with stronger stomachs this is a fantastic idea.
| nickvec wrote:
| I'd say the tagline of "add random jumpscares to sites you're
| trying to avoid" is a fair warning of what the demo entails.
| Funes- wrote:
| This is getting ridiculous.
| jmkd wrote:
| I have absolutely no use for this, but the name oh my god!
| throwup238 wrote:
| I really hope that the demo video on the frontpage uses the
| referrer (referer?) HTTP header to select the URL!
|
| I bet you can do that with Chrome's puppeteer and cache the
| domain to optimize it. You won't get the personalized pages of
| Facebook et al but it would be really fun.
|
| The name is genius.
| marcodiego wrote:
| I really wonder how well averse conditioning works... maybe I'll
| try it if it works on firefox and is open source.
|
| Something I've done on some periods I was fighting my
| procrastination was to use pomodoro timers and mantras: "Just for
| today" and "one day at a time". Interestingly, these simple tools
| worked very very well.
| y33t wrote:
| > "Just for today"
|
| This is great at getting me to justify procrastination.
| taeric wrote:
| I haven't laughed so hard at a story headline in a long time.
| Kudos and thanks for that!
| duxup wrote:
| The animation on the home page does a great job giving you all
| you want to know.
|
| Granted it's a simple app but I wish other apps were as easy to
| understand.
| aceazzameen wrote:
| I _love_ the name and idea. Bravo!
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| Nice idea, but I fear that my mind will quickly get _stimulated_
| by the expectation of getting a new and exciting jumpscare, thus
| reinforcing addiction instead of reducing it.
| bbx wrote:
| I just had a look at the creators's other project and this one
| his hilarious! https://www.unoptimal.com/push-off
|
| Two friends receive a notification and the first one to tap it
| wins!
| joshdavham wrote:
| ChatGPT Youtube Player is also hilarious:
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chatgpt-youtube-pla...
|
| It plays a youtube video while you wait for chatGPT to finish
| responding to your prompt lmao!
| eieio wrote:
| I was a tester for this game! Testing it with a small group was
| hilarious; I was super motivated to try to win (although I
| rarely won) since I knew everyone else playing and the
| notifications came all the time because Justin was doing lots
| of testing. It absolutely ruined me (which is the point!)
| andybak wrote:
| Will absolutely have the reverse effect
| d3rockk wrote:
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/jumpscare-tab/lgffj...
|
| Same idea
| joshdavham wrote:
| We need more hilarious chrome extensions like this!
| joshdavham wrote:
| Any chance this gets open sourced? I understand that you can just
| look at the code of your installed extensions in chrome's
| directory on your computer, but it would be cool to look at the
| code, if you're willing to share.
| Brusco_RF wrote:
| A while back I tried to apply this same principle to an iphone
| case that tazes you at random when you hold it for longer than 5
| minutes.
|
| I gave up on the idea for a number of reasons, primarily driving
| safety
| precommunicator wrote:
| Why would you hold your phone while driving?
| ClassyJacket wrote:
| God damn that name is absolutely perfect. I'm upvoting it for
| that alone.
| throwaway123lol wrote:
| some notes:
|
| icon doesn't look great with my colour scheme:
| https://imgur.com/a/D0UcBaY
|
| > Jumpscare Probability (%) what does this mean? % chance of it
| showing up per minute? per click? what?
|
| i set it to 100% to test and there seems to be no way to cancel
| it once they show up. bug? it interrupts important user actions
| like typing and on refresh they're gone.
| stainablesteel wrote:
| haha brilliant, but make it VERY scary, there needs to be sound
| too
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