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		reverendsteveii 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'Gentle parenting' my smartphone addiction if you're on a mac or linux you can always edit /etc/hosts to redirect traffic to localhost, effectively killing the site on your local machine

roflchoppa 4 months ago | [–]

for MacOs https://github.com/SelfControlApp/selfcontrol

mkmk 4 months ago | | [–]

This barely works for me because it seems like stuff always gets cached either at the browser or the OS level.

masfuerte 4 months ago | [–]

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts ditto.

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