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This wouldn't work for me - my to-do list only grows bigger, not smaller :-)

Anyway, I've had a lot of success with Cold Turkey for blocking distracting websites and applications. I even bought a license for the extra features since it is so good. So yeah, I recommend it. Not affiliated.

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Just adding the direct URL https://getcoldturkey.com/ MacOS/Windows (not affiliated either, first time I see it)

Cold Turkey is great. After starting a session, I tried all of the basic stuff like looking through the /etc/hosts file or unloading the plist. None of it seemed to disable it, so I have been less distracted ever since.

What do you do when you're building?

SSH into a remote server and read HN using w3m.

Gotta go, compiler throwing errors...

Yep, Cold turkey is great. I use Freedom for IOS for similar functionality.

Freedom's been removed from the iOS App Store, unfortunately :(

Whoa, must be recent. Do you know of any alternatives?

My iOS app studycity may provide what you are looking for. If not, we might be able to modify it to provide some of the features freedom did.

I'm pretty certain that Freedom (and many other ad-blocking apps) got banned because they were using a VPN for uses other than a strict VPN. Your app uses a VPN for access control, right? Why do you think it won't be banned?

EDIT: I don't want that to sound hostile at all...genuinely curious

Fair question. There are a number of differences between apps like Freedom and StudyCity. We are aware of the recent VPN rules. StudyCity simply needs a gate to direct the student / child to take a couple of minutes to earn points on Khan Academy or another supported site. The gate can be implemented in many ways. At the moment, this is all the detail I can provide.

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