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Re:Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app by esperent on Sunday September 06, 2020 @07:18PM (#24395436)
Leechblock is good, but it's too easy to get around. I have several browsers installed since I do web dev, so it's an easy matter to just open a different one, or use private browsing, or disable the extension.
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Re:Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app by Cyphase on Sunday September 06, 2020 @07:52PM (#24395629)
Well sure; but isn't editing the hosts file easy as well? Unless you lock yourself out of root and would have to boot from a live image. :D

LeechBlock has been enough for me, because I mostly just need a reminder to get in the way of my autopilot, not something that strongly prevents access. If my autopilot gets smarter, I can turn up the friction. LeechBlock has an option that requires you to enter a password to override it or get into the settings; either a user-specified password, or even worse/better, a 32/64/128 character random password.

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