Build better habits online! Tell HabitLab your goals, and it will determine the appropriate interventions via experimentation.

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Version
1.0.277
Update
April 23, 2021
Size
5.49MiB
Developer
habitlab.stanford.edu
Category
Users
5,000+
Rating
4.29032 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
Nederlands
Türkçe
中文 (简体)
中文 (繁體)
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Permissions
Tabs
WebNavigation
Storage
History
Idle
Notifications
Http://*/
Https://*/
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HabitLab Extension

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.
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Source Manifest.json

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How to download and manually install HabitLab extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install HabitLab extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install HabitLab extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install HabitLab extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download HabitLab extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a HabitLab extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the HabitLab Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the HabitLab extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the HabitLab extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for HabitLab extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the HabitLab extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download HabitLab extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install HabitLab extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the HabitLab extension file

Select and download the HabitLab extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the HabitLab extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your HabitLab extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the HabitLab extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install HabitLab extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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User reviews

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Hamdi Bel Hadj Hassine (ID: 000000bdc819eaaf) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/15/2023 Great extension. Plenty of customizable tools to block or monitor your web browsing.

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Alex (ID: 000000e6da06eae1) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 03/20/2023 Doesn't work

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Bryan Wall (ID: 00000015947fc3dd) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 12/23/2020 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.

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Daniel (ID: 000000180c1d5e3f) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 10/18/2020 Only 2 or so nudges work - the rest give the following error Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'dest' of null. Using Brave as a browser.

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Konstantin K. (ID: 000000b38fa78141) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/15/2020 Probably best of its kind. (UPD. Unfortunately it stopped working on Twitter and some other sites for me)