One of the biggest issues I think that we face as PMO addicts, is its ease of accesibilty. Unlike other addictions, like for example alcohol, where you would need to go to the market to buy alcohol, porn is just a click away. In the past, porn addicts had to similarly, go to the video store, and in an embarresed way pay for it and come back home. Which if your too lazy, you might not even get off your ass and go to the store anyway. But nowadays, you don't even need to get off your ass, unlike the alcohol addict, who might deliberately not have an alcohol in his house, would have to go the shop. You can type a few words in your browser, and that's it. And this ease, I find IS a problem. Similarly porn use can lead to M, which is also easily accessible, for obvious reasons, because our genital organs, is just right there, within reach. So PMO addiction, is difficult to overcome, because the temptation is never truly removed. Hence, I come to the subject title of this post. How many of you are using porn blockers on your devices? I have found personally, that when my devices are blocked, it is the best thing ever. I make it absolutely impossible to watch porn. And that feels incredible. No matter what, it is impossible to watch porn and that is FREEDOM! The only issue is, there has been times when my computer can not be blocked because I need more administrative priveleges for work and study reasons, and with administrative priveleges it becomes possible to circumvent a porn blocker, even if we didn't know the password. But in times when I do not need my admin priveleges, the system I have in place is perfect. It is utterly impossible to watch porn. And that is wonderful. I am just curious, as it seems many people do not use porn blockers, and I believe that is a mistake. What is holding you back from using porn blockers?
I have about 99% of it blocked on my windows laptop. Like anything I can get is extremely minor. Once in a blue moon I have ended up on that 1% stuff, but basically never. I only know one way around my blocker, and it is so much of an extreme hassle for me that I don't even do it. The filter I use is plucky, as well as another few little tweaks. I have a very strict configuration. I don't use a smartphone for two reasons. Because I don't trust I could block enough for my liking, and I don't know for a fact that I wouldn't be able to get around it. Yeah it literally is as if porn and psubs don't even really exist when you restrict yourself in such a way. I much prefer this. It's as if you don't even really need to try when you do this. But that using your own willpower carry on, easily being able to access stuff. That honestly has never worked for me. It's honestly caused me to feel like I am in a constant fight, in a constant stress. I much prefer the porn and psubs basically not existing way.
That's very good @Trickshot147. I wasn't using smartphones for a very long time too and just sticked to dumb phones, until it became necessary. But with the configuration I have on my mobile phone too, it is impossible to view porn.
Interesting. I have thought a few times about getting a smartphone, because I ended up in a few situations where I needed one. Then you have those occasions where people don't understand why you use an old phone like that. But tbh with how strict I would want my configuration on a smartphone to be, I wouldn't really be gaining much more having a smartphone over a dumb phone. So not entirely sure if it would be worth the hassle for me anyway.
Yeah I know what you mean. But what I did was basically install some apps that I know I needed. Then I restrict the apps, so it is impossible to download any further apps.
I don't know if you use plucky or have used plucky? If I was using a smartphone I would want to use the plucky app, I think it's just a web version. But then I would want my exact same plucky configuration for my laptop in that plucky app. Then maybe I would want to use the youtube app. But I would want the youtube restricted mode enforced on that. I would also maybe want a filtered version of telegram. So something like telochat etc. Then not being able to access or download any other app, and no way to bypass it. That's more or less what I would be looking for.
So does that mean, Telochat users can communicate with Telegram users? Would I have access to my messages from Telegram within the Telochat app? I had to restrict Telegram, but if I can use Telochat to communicate with my friends using Telegram, that would be great. Also can the company behind Telochat be trusted?
Yeah you can, and it can be trusted. Telochat also blocks group chats though. You can also use cloudveil. That restricts telegram to. I preferred Telochat as it was stricter than cloudveil. But I have heard cloudveil is now also stricter.
That's cool. I can't download and install any apps at this time until I receive my password. Does cloudveil allow group chats in safe restricted environment?
Yeah Cloudveil does. Basically I stopped using cloudveil a while ago because I found a bypass for it. But that was on a windows laptop. I don't think the bypass would be possible on a smart phone. But I have also been told that bypass has been fixed recently anyway. But the bypass never worked ever with telochat. But yeah telochat is basically the exact same as cloudveil, but telochat also blocks group chats. Using either of them you can't access any fap content on telegram. But you can access your own chats etc.
Trying to block porn from my devices was helpful at first but it didn't treat the underlying issue. My Iphone has been a consistent weak point in the efforts block and have accountability. My laptop was slower to fall but ways around were found (which have since been fixed). Blocking porn doesn't work (it helps) but if you have strong enough compulsion you can just buy another device to view porn (done it three times in the past couple years). I do recommend using porn blockers though, but they do not replace community. You need to surround yourself with people who are recovering with you.
If you have any tips on how to use what kind of blockers it would be appreciated. I have tried out multiple of them, addons to browsers etc etc but its super easy to circumvent and trick them. Also, they tend to block ressources I need to work, so that screws me over a lot. For Phone and IPad its relatively easy to find VPNs which work very well, but the PC [normal windows].... im out of luck. Do the VPNs work like this? Do they have blacklists to download? Maybe, I dont know. All the best to you!
I use covenant eyes and my church mentor watches over and admins my account for me. I have no desire to look up porn on my computer because I don't want to let him down, again.
Porn blockers could be very effective. I don't use them. I use image blockers instead. Basically, I can't see images when browsing the web. I've come to realize that cybercrime tends to involve the abuse of images and profile pictures on almost any website, including nonpornographic websites. So I just block all images now. I also like blocking images because of its popularity. For example, a lot of browsers and apps share the ability to block images from websites or have a Data Saver mode that reduces images.
I've pretty much given up on blocking software, because for me, it ultimately is the honor system. And let's just say, I have acted less than honorably giving in to my porn addiction. I once whacked off to porn on my Mom's tablet, because all my devices were locked down. For me, so far anyways, accountability has been more effective, and making it a habit to post honestly here.
You can use the proxy server 127.0.0.1 it will block all websites but you can allow certain websites which is needed for you. Then you can block the system settings (so you don't change the proxy settings) using group policy (admin rights required). Then lock away the system admin password so you don't change the settings back. You cant access the system settings and can only visit website which you would have allowed. If these conditions are ok with you can use this blocking method. Believe me I have me trying block p on laptop for year and this is the only thing which is working for me. Each time i blocked p I would find some or the other website which would have not been blocked so the best solution for me was to block all websites and allow only some .
Sophos products are pretty good. I recommend using multiple blockers. The issue I have, probably similar to yours is, for work/study related. There are periods when I regain access to my admin account password. These are the dangerous times for me as I can then disable/circumvent my porn blockers. You must be willing to not have access to your Windows Admin account for what I am saying to work. There are some of us here, that is even comptemplating suicide over PMO addiction. Given that, one should try to do everything. And if that means not having access to Admin account for a period of time, so be it. We need to do everything we can, especially when suicide is on the table. Heck maybe even consider throwing your laptop and smart phone into the trash bin. But so far porn blockers and loss of Admin account seems to suffice. My mobile device is Android so I don't know about Apple, but with mobile device, even built in ones can be sufficient. Don't be afraid to sacrifice a lot of the functionality of your mobile phone to achieve your goals. Perhaps instead of blacklisting, be willing to consider whitelisting. Do you really need anything else apart from e-mail, maps, nofap.com and a few of your favourite websites that are safe? When blocking porn, things to consider: 1-Is proxy blocked? 2-Is Safe Mode blocked? 3-Is factory reset/startup troubleshooting impossible? 4-Block access to Command Prompt and PowerShell. 5-Block access to Task Manager. 6-Make sure you can not modify Windows/System files without Admin account. 7-Is running other lesser known browsers blocked? Select one or two browsers that is Whitelisted(that can be run and block all the rest of the programs) and which you have tested your porn blockers, making sure it is being filtered. 8-Prevent virtualisation software installation/running. 9-Prevent booting into external HDD or USB. 10-You need to password protect the BIOS too and not have access to the BIOS password. 11-For your porn blocker, to prevent retrieving password through "Forgotten Password", create an e-mail account just for your porn blocker and register with that. You can find an email service provider where you don't have to put a secondary e-mail address or mobile phone number. That way there is no way in and you can not use "Forgotten Password" for the porn blocker nor the e-mail address which you used to register with. You can use a post in future e-mail service which sends an e-mail message to you in the future. Choose your time duration(1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year later, etc) and receive your password in a future date. In your message be sure to include your Windows Admin Password, Porn blocker password, BIOS password, E-mail address associated with porn blocker password, mobile phone password). Once you have done that, it is a very liberating feeling. Sometimes limiting ourselves feels great. For a very long time I had used just a dumb phone. And not having the internet at your fingertips is actually quite liberating. But with porn blockers you can keep your tech though. Ofcourse as others have pointed out, if you buy another device, or use someone else's device, you could potentially view porn. For another household members device, if you don't want to tell them about your PMO addiction(as I wouldn't), you can suggest to the device owner, that they need to put a strong password. So let's say you aldready know their password, tell them they should regularly update their password for security reasons. Hopefully they'll change their password to their computer, tablet etc and you won't know what it is. In terms of buying a new one, we still need to be strong, and at least porn blockers can give us more of a fighting chance and we don't go and spend money on a new device.
