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anyone else think a startpage has had a positive impact on your mental state?
it sounds retarded but i haven't felt as relieved or calm about shit online until i found this was a thing.
it all depends on what you make of course but just having a personalized page that's free of all these attention grabbing logos and has a theme that i get to fit to my taste or style is just nice.
by default browsers use this stupid "most visited pages" tab with all the icons of the websites you visit. having that made my brain immediately just click on them out of sheer habit. i didn't realize it for the longest time but i hated doing that for as long as i did.
i'm just using a personalized edit of the "dawn" page, but having this simple, calming, dark startpage with a todo list (on top of having that smallest bit of keyboard interaction to switch tabs to make it harder to reach those addictive sites) made me feel so much better
maybe i'm just autistic, i don't know, all i know is that having a startpage has positively affected me and has gotten me into looking for other niche hobbies and sites instead of just visiting the exact same websites every time i open my browser
