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I use wondershaper:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/wondershaper...

And limit my speed to 256KB/s which sounds like a lot and 15 years ago that was really fast, but it's enough to stop me from gorging on YouTube videos, which interestingly are less addicting when viewed at a maximum of 480p.

Adding latency is not necessarily the best route, because some apps (looking at you, gmail) send tens of requests in sequence just to load the main page.




A monkey that occupy the screen for 5 seconds on each new frame load with quotes might neatly solve that problem.




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