My Digital Diet

A plugin to provide stats (emotion, knowledge, and actionability) to promote more mindful browsing and disincentivize doomscrolling.

NEW Version: Smart Filters for Your Search Results You can now filter Google search results to hide content that is unhelpful, unlikely to enhance your knowledge or too negative. See only what meets your needs. Check it out! This Chrome browser extension, called Digital Diet, adds ‘content labels’ to Google search results. Just like nutrition labels help you make better choices about what enters your body, ‘content labels’ can help you take control of what enters your mind, potentially reducing time wasted on mindless browsing. You can also download Digital Diet sister app that shows how much negative/positive information you have consumed, how actionable that information is on average, and how likely it is to increase your knowledge on average. Download App for Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/digital-diet-abl/id6748617099 Download App for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.mit.digitaldiet Digital Diet is grounded in research that shows people want information that can increase their knowledge, help them decide what actions to take, and improves their mood. And so we use language analysis algorithms to score webpage content on these three dimensions: Actionability: This score tells you to what extent the information on a webpage is useful on average. Knowledge: This score tells you to what extent information on a webpage helps people understand a topic, on average. Emotion: This score tells you the emotional tone of the webpage—whether it is mostly positive or negative, on average. You can use these scores to help you browse the web.