Good Friction — LinkedIn Detox With a Nudge, Not a Blocker
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A nudge, not a blocker. Pagination break + session counter for LinkedIn — one small moment of choice, returned. Remember the Next page button? It told you where you were — page 6 of 108 — and gave you a moment to choose whether to go on. Engagement metrics took it out, and now you scroll for twenty minutes without knowing how far you've gone or when to stop. That little pause was good friction. Good Friction puts it back on LinkedIn. Pagination gave you a moment to see how far you'd come and decide if you wanted to keep going. Good Friction returns that moment to your LinkedIn experience. A small counter tells you how long you've been on the feed and how many pages you've turned. When you reach the bottom, one question appears before more posts load. Want to keep going? No problem. Want to stop? No problem. You decide. It's a little bit of good friction returned — the kind that used to be built into the web, the kind that made our time feel like ours. This is a nudge, not a blocker. You can't quit LinkedIn — it's where work lives — and blockers don't work for tools you can't quit. So Good Friction doesn't block, hide, or shame. No streaks, no dashboards, no history, no accounts. Just the moment of choice, returned. Two permissions: LinkedIn pages and local storage. Nothing leaves your browser. No tracking, no servers, no data collection. Open source — read the code on GitHub. Good Friction succeeds when you need it less.