What is HabitLab?
HabitLab is a productivity chrome extension. it's a free extension and is featured in Productivity, it has 6,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 4.29 from 31 rated user, last update is 1103 days ago.
What’s new in version 1.0.277?
HabitLab is an open-source research project from Stanford on helping users reduce their time online. It includes various tools like news feed blockers, comment hiders, and more. HabitLab will try out different tools and figure out what is most effective for you. Data on effectiveness will be recorded for research purposes.
HOW IT WORKS
Tell HabitLab which sites you want to spend less time on. We support all sites, including popular sites like Facebook, Youtube, Reddit, Buzzfeed, Netflix.
Each time you visit a site, we will intelligently choose an intervention (which use techniques such as hiding your news feed, hiding comments, pausing videos, showing notifications if you've been on a site too long, and more) to help you reduce your time on the site. If you don’t like an intervention, you can choose to disable it.
HabitLab learns which interventions work best for you based on your browsing history and their past effectiveness, and uses this to more effectively help you reduce your time online.
ABOUT
HabitLab is an open-source project developed by the Stanford HCI Group. You can find source code at https://github.com/habitlab/habitlab
PERMISSIONS
Chrome will ask you for the following permissions when you install. Here’s how we use them:
* tabs: We use this for showing productivity interventions such as showing timers, removing feeds, pausing video auto-play, etc (by using content scripts to modify sites) and monitoring time spent on sites (by detecting when tabs are opened and closed)
* webNavigation: We use this for detecting page navigations within a tab - such as clicking on a new video in Youtube - so we know when the productivity intervention needs to be updated
* storage: We use this for storing logs of how long the user has spent on each site and how effective interventions have been for the user. This is used for: 1) visualizing intervention effectiveness to users in the productivity dashboard, and 2) personalizing interventions to users by selecting those that have been most effective for that user
* history: We use the browsing history to determine what the user's most frequently sites are at the time of install, so we can show those to them as sites they want to set as goals to reduce time on. Is also used to show users how much time they are saving compared to before installing HabitLab.
* idle: We use this for determining when the user is idle, so we don't count that time in our time tracker.
notifications: We use notifications such as "You already spent 10 minutes on Facebook today" as a type of productivity intervention to help reduce users' time on sites they set as their goal sites.
* http://*/ and https://*/: Our productivity interventions (such as showing timers, removing feeds, pausing video auto-play, etc) are shown on all sites, so we need the 'http://*/' and 'https://*/' permissions.
PRIVACY POLICY
HabitLab sends us anonymized data about the effects of interventions on your browsing. You can opt-out of sharing data when you set up HabitLab, or later. See https://github.com/habitlab/habitlab/wiki/Privacy for our privacy policy.
How to install HabitLab?
You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.
Preview of HabitLab
Technical Features:
- Latest Version: 1.0.277
- Requirements: Windows Chrome, Mac Chrome
- License: Free
- Latest update: Friday, April 23rd, 2021
- Author: Stanford HCI Research Group
HabitLab Available languages:
English, Nederlands, Türkçe, 中文 (简体), 中文 (繁體).
FAQ
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What about others talk about habitlab chrome extension?
60% user give 5-star rating, 7% user give 4-star rating, 7% user give 3-star rating, 7% user give 2-star rating, 20% user give 1-star rating. Read reviews of habitlab
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How could i get help if there is something wrong with habitlab chrome extension?
You could find more help information from habitlab support page.
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How could i contact the developer of habitlab chrome extension?
You could send emails to publisher, or check publisher's website.
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What privacy data habitlab chrome extension collect?
- Web history
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What are the required permissions for extensions?
- tabs
- webNavigation
- storage
- history
- idle
- notifications
- http://*/
- https://*/
More about manifest_file of habitlab.
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How could i report abuse of habitlab chrome extension?
You could click to report abuse of habitlab.
Reviews of habitlab:
Doesn't work
Extension is broken on Chrome (and Edge) 87, and doesn't seem to be maintained anymore. It appears that this extension was developed as part of someone's graduate school project and is no longer being actively maintained. Most of the "nudge" features are broken in the latest versions of Chrome which makes the extension mostly useless. Many issues have been opened through their recommended bug reporting process on Github but no one seems to be monitoring them anymore.
Best extension to beat procrastination. Plenty of customizable tools to block or monitor your web browsing.