Hello guys,

this is for those of you who, like me, struggle right now with checking the news and/ or social media way too much.

As I am sure many of us, I am currently working from home and need to use the internet. So I tell myself I will not obsess over the corona-live-ticker, or fall into the rabbit hole of scrolling through instagram.

But I do and it is stressing. me. out! I even have site blockers in place, but will just go into private mode to bypass my own rules.

So this is what I am doing:

- I am blocking tagesschau and ndr (which are the german news outlets I follow the most because they are factual and reliable) as well as instagram and twitter

- I will allow myself to check the news in the mornings and evenings because it still is important to know whats going on

- I am blocking the sites in the browsers Firefox and chrome which I use on my laptop, and enable the blocking in private mode as well. Same for the chrome app on my tablet

- for Firefox I am using LeechBlock and for chrome (laptop as well as app) SiteBlock

Please share if you use other add-ons, or different strategies how to cope with the media right now!

Greetings from germany!