# I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Page I Visit

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## What Jamie wrote

This made my chuckle as I read it. I've built many websites and know how important speed is to how people use it. We would optimize pages like crazy and directly see that the more we optimized them, the more people used the sites. The idea of applying that same method, on the client side, to decrease your own usage, is brilliant and non-obvious!

> So if you can inject latency into sites artificially, you can reduce the actual impact of the addiction in a controllable way while not denying the enjoyment of the Internet to yourself.
> 
> Hacker News with 100ms latency feels like liquor: Hacker News with 9000ms latency feels like small beer.

I personally just block all of these sites using [1Blocker](https://1blocker.com), but I know a lot of people won't go that far. Adding randomly increasing latency to your user experience is probably a **very** good way for those that can’t imagine leaving Facebook to get a healthier relationship with it.

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