I'd like to know if anybody here tried the no internet solution before and how you dealt with? That means you stop having an internet connection at your house. Is it possible to live today without internet at home (for paying bills, receiving/sending emails, finding services and so on)? I think this is the best solution to stop pmo (with a porn blocker, you are tempted to find a way to bypass it) and it allows you to discover new hobbies since you cant go to Youtube as soon as you have free time. You lose less time in useless websites/apps and you are not always waiting for notifications. I live with my parents so I cant tell them to stop paying for internet haha (I don't think they are aware of the existence of internet pornography and they think that I use internet almost only for schoolwork haha). I don't think I will have an internet connection if I get my own apartment. There is always a public place (library, school) in which there is an internet connection.
Well another part of that is not having a mobile connection, do you have a smartphone now? You could get on a limited data plan I suppose, I already have a cheap service and they recently bumped me up to 3gb for the same price but I think I might downgrade back to 1.5 which is all I really need for the essentials, and of course there's often wifi hotspots. There are different possible combinations of the following: No high speed internet at home Low/no data plan for mobile (maybe a non-smartphone) If you look beyond P addiction there's just general tech addiction too, screen time may predispose us to P to a small extent on some level. An eInk display for eBooks is different, but aside from a dedicated reader I understand the only eInk computer monitor for sale is still very expensive like $1,000.00 USD last I checked.
BTW a benefit to the no internet at home/mobile is you are forced to plan your time, which is something I don't think a lot of people appreciate. Planning is very powerful and aside from just what time you can go to the library or whatever once you start looking at your psychological and biological patterns.
Hey man, that is an interesting strategy, but I won't recommend it. I mean, you know, world have changed, and we need internet now for almost everything, we have to control ourselves. That's not a solution. If internet is the problem, you don't have to leave INTERNET, because that is you who has a problem. Control it, and you can live with the internet forever. That's my opinion.
The issue isn't so much an absolute internet or no internet, the OP said access via public spaces. Another way to look at it is how much you use it. A lot of people expect to use unlimited internet now, but why should anything be unlimited? You know what unlimited is related to? Addiction. Any addiction involves unlimited use of something.
Like anything else in terms of needs vs. want. Could be food, someone actually planning their meal instead of just grabbing something whenever wherever, which ends up being junk food. Besides in terms of resources, you save money. I don't know what it costs where you live but a landline high speed internet service costs and having a high or unlimited data plan costs more than a low one. More planning = more money and time to work with because you're not wasting it away and being distracted all the time.
Porn is always going to be easy to acquire. Learn to live with it all around you and you will become invincible.
You completely understood my perspective. So, do you think that giving up internet at home has more benefits than disadvantages?
Yes, I've thought of doing the same though I just don't live at my own place either right now. Also technically if you have your phone you can access stuff on there, but like I have a phone with a small screen and especially if I step down to a low data plan I'll be forced to use what I need only, besides it's not that interesting for entertainment purposes being so small. So it isn't like in an emergency you have no access, if I run out of data it's just slow speed but I still have internet so if I need to look something up I can but it's too slow for streaming video. I'm doing it, at least to 1.5 gb I even used to be at 500mb and if I want totally barebone I could do that - but my service includes the voice data in that..