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It's moving the apps out of sight, not uninstalling them. I've done this, and found that if I just idly pick up my phone I have to consciously decide what I'm going to waste time on, and often that bit of friction is enough to make using the phone less rewarding.

I've also set the new tab page in my browsers to be blank and found that useful in the same way.

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I'm happy that it works for you, but If I started to lock my phone in a safe and throw away the key, next thing I'd learn to pick the safe every five minnutes.

At which point you'd have learned a new skill, and you're otherwise no worse off than when youu started.

Yeah it’s interesting because usually these sorts of things (like editing my hosts file) don’t work for me because I get annoyed by the restriction when I legitimately need to access something and undo it.

I guess in this case it’s a small amount of friction not a complete block that works for me.

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