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user-inactivated  ·  3570 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trying to break an addiction to a site? :cough: reddit :cough: Block it from your phone.

The problem with host based blocking is that I'll just unblock it when addiction sets in. For it to work, I can't have access to the device filtering me. For me to work in general, I have to have access to the device filtering me. Plus proxies, VPNs, Tor, etc can get around them even if it were a standalone device I couldn't control.





user-inactivated  ·  3570 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Where there's a will there's a way I guess. :D

For me it's good to have that quick reminder when I habitually try to open the site. Enough to disrupt my thought process and remind me that I'm trying not to visit it as much. Yes, I could always go re-enable it, but opening up the hosts file is not already an addiction so it's much easier to avoid.