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I added Reddit and some other sites to my uBlock blacklist because most of the time I would end up there unwillingly. Control + t (new tab), red (autocomplete

I added Reddit and some other sites to my uBlock blacklist because most of the time I would end up there unwillingly. Control + t (new tab), red (autocomplete to reddit) and enter. Muscular memory. Now uBlock tells me that the site is locked, I realize what I'm doing and I close the tab. That muscle memory is now gone. Sometimes duckduckgo returns me some useful reddit links and uBlock gives me the option to allow it temporally which is a few minutes. So even if I start messing around after a while it blocks me again.

FPGAhacker 6y ago
I had to do the same with a number of my favorite news sites, including hacker news, while I’m working. It was shocking how many times I would open the browser to Google something and find myself reading stupid political news instead of working. I also installed a cli google searcher. That was helpful too.
- Darmody 6y ago
  Yes, it's mind blowing how much of my procrastination is pure muscle memory and routine.
wott 6y ago
That method didn't work for me (if I am thinking of the same thing you are describing, not sure). I would soon routinely unblock Reddit, so the block would become useless in achieving its purpose and become just an annoying extra layer. So what I did then was blocking specific subs (well, one actually, my national sub) in which I felt compelled to correct people all the time. On each browser on each computer I use, I installed an extension like "Silent Block" which allows to blacklist the URL you want with a regex (".* reddit.com/r/yourmostlovedandhatedsub.* "). Unlike /etc/hosts and similar methods, you don't have to block a whole domain, the control is finer. So I can still freely view technical or whatever subs with which I don't feel engaged, and follow links to Reddit from search engine or other sites. It's been over 1 year that I set up this system, and I never bypassed it. It's working fine for me. Or perhaps Ublock blacklist allows this kind of 'fine grain' blocking too?
- Darmody 6y ago
  As far as I know you can block certain subreddits, yes.

FPGAhacker 6y ago

I had to do the same with a number of my favorite news sites, including hacker news, while I’m working. It was shocking how many times I would open the browser to Google something and find myself reading stupid political news instead of working. I also installed a cli google searcher. That was helpful too.

Darmody 6y ago
Yes, it's mind blowing how much of my procrastination is pure muscle memory and routine.

wott 6y ago

That method didn't work for me (if I am thinking of the same thing you are describing, not sure). I would soon routinely unblock Reddit, so the block would become useless in achieving its purpose and become just an annoying extra layer. So what I did then was blocking specific subs (well, one actually, my national sub) in which I felt compelled to correct people all the time. On each browser on each computer I use, I installed an extension like "Silent Block" which allows to blacklist the URL you want with a regex (".* reddit.com/r/yourmostlovedandhatedsub.* "). Unlike /etc/hosts and similar methods, you don't have to block a whole domain, the control is finer. So I can still freely view technical or whatever subs with which I don't feel engaged, and follow links to Reddit from search engine or other sites. It's been over 1 year that I set up this system, and I never bypassed it. It's working fine for me. Or perhaps Ublock blacklist allows this kind of 'fine grain' blocking too?

Darmody 6y ago
As far as I know you can block certain subreddits, yes.