Sleeping Policeman

Slow down! Sleeping Policeman will slow down the infinite scroll of Twitter and Reddit based on your usage every day.

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Getting Started

The easiest way to use Sleeping Policeman is to download the extension directly from Mozilla via addons.mozilla.org (AMO). It can also be run as a temporary add-on locally using the instructions below.

Installation

This will allow you to load the extension as a temporary add-on for local debugging. It requires yarn to build JS using parcel.

1. Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/elijahrogers/sleeping_policeman.git
2. Install packages and build: yarn install && yarn watch
3. Navigate to about:debuggingin Firefox
4. Click "This Firefox"
5. Click "Load Temporary Add-on"
6. Open the extension's directory and select the manifest.json file

Usage

When the appropriate checkbox for Reddit or Twitter is checked Sleeping Policeman will automatically count requests and add a delay to any GET requests based on the following formula:

  Math.sqrt(Math.floor(currentRequestCount(site) / 50)) * 250

The delay increases sublinearly:

Number of requests	Delay
0	0ms
50	250ms
100	~354ms
500	~790ms
1000	~1.1s

The request count is reset each day and unchecking the checkbox will disable the delay.

License

Distributed under the GNU GPL-3.0 License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.