Ask HN: How to Deal with Internet Addiction?

3 points by p__ 6y ago ↗ HN

I find it hard to keep off from mindlessly browsing the web.

It's become second nature to Ctrl+T and 'fa' for facebook, 'news' for HackerNews, 'red' for reddit, etc. that I barely notice I'm doing it.

I also regularly stay up another hour instead of going to sleep, "to catch up" on things that really don't matter or I can view tomorrow.

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dend 6y ago ↗

Have a blocklist in your HOSTS file. That way, even if you go to those sites from your browser, you are not able to access them.

sudo vim /etc/hosts

include the lines:

127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com

127.0.0.1 www.nytimes.com

127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com

127.0.0.1 www.cnn.com