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For the past 2 years I've had great success through editing my hosts file, blocking me from seeing the sties that I tent to get addicted to. It was interesting
by thingsilearned 19y ago
For the past 2 years I've had great success through editing my hosts file, blocking me from seeing the sties that I tent to get addicted to. It was interesting (and scary) at first. For the first month I would still go to digg 6 times a day, subconciously even though I knew it was blocked.
Eventually it settled in that I couldn't go there, and I haven't wasted time on there since. Its a great feeling and I get way more done.
Editing the host file was a pain though, and was a cold-turkey cutoff. That's where the idea for 8aweek came. We want everyone to be able to control their bad habits, but in a nice feature rich app, and not some hack in your system's files.
Hope you try it out. Let us know if it worked for you and what would help.