I've noticed many web sites don't have RSS. I've set up Huginn, and it sends me emails from multiple resources in a digest form. I apply filters to emails from Huginn, creating a separate "feed" in my inbox.

After seeing similar threads on HN, I’ve also started a similar journey. I managed to migrate to Firefox with DuckDuckGo as the default search engine. But I’ve also added a shortcut for Google search: if I feel like I am missing something I open a new tab and type “go [keywords]”.

You know you can prefix your ddg search with !g to use Google?

Useful for technical searches, where ddg is sadly, not good enough.

You can actually use !g anywhere in the search strings. It's useful when you finish typing your query, you can change your search engine at the last second.

Didn’t know that. Thank you!

DDG already supports Google (and some others) by typing !g [keywords]

This never made sense to me, if you're concerned about privacy, why send your search queries to an intermediary when the browser is perfectly capable of handling that for you.

How about this :) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/exploding-tab...

In the first few days of voluntary quarantine, I built a Firefox extension called Exploding Tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/exploding-tab...

First, you intentionally add a website (e.g. https://facebook.com) to the list. Once you open that site in a new tab, a countdown begins. Unless you stop the countdown, the tab is closed once the countdown reaches 0.

I've been using this extension myself for a few days now. Up until now it seems ok.

I've been using something similar, it's a chrome extension made to stop you from getting distracted called Motion (https://inmotion.app). You list websites you find distracting, whenever you open one motion asks you how much time you need and closes the tab after the time's up.