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TJ82

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Mar 8, 2012
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Screentime is too easy for me to bypass and I'm down to one last site that steals my attention (Reddit). I've deleted my account and blocked on screentime but find Reddit is even worse when you have no account as you see all the stupidly aaddictive stuff first. Used to use it for tech advice, coding, running etc but it was still too time consuming.

Is there a way to do a hard block on Mac and all iOS devices on a website?

Seemed fine just deleting Twitter and Insta and FB. For some reason I keep floating back to Reddit. It's my last vice but has to go!
 
Just trying now. Sounds strong, shame just a day but it says it can't be bypassed so let's see! Need one for phone too!
 
You can setup a Raspberry Pi or similar device and use PiHole as a DNS server to block sites from all devices on your network. You may want to have a friend change the password so you're not tempted to just unblock them.
 
Can hosts be bypassed for a site like Reddit?
I just opened it in Opera https://www.opera.com/features/free-vpn

I would test more ways to bypass it, but I accidentally broke the app :)
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Looks like you can keep smashing Extend on SelfControl to get it way past 24 hours. Didn't occur to me yesterday, really fab!
 
Add some rules to your router to ignore some IP addresses or run a local DNS server like "PiHole" that will. implement a block list.

In other words, the "block" should not be done in the Mac, but at the network level. I do this with ad blocking so I don't see annoying ads on my ISO devices or the Mac.
 
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