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Blocker software for Linux

Discussion in 'Porn Addiction' started by todolist, Apr 15, 2022.

  1. todolist

    todolist Fapstronaut

    I recently started using 'cold turkey' on my PC. It's still early days but I'm really liking it so far and was wondering if there is an alternative for Linux. My laptop runs a Ubuntu based distro with firefox as the only browser. I've tried a few blocking add-ons for Firefox in the past but they were far too easy to turn off so I'm looking for something pretty hardcore. I've seen a few people mention 'plucky' but it seems to be unavailable (or at least very difficult to configure) on the 'ubuntu/firefox' combo. I'm not really interested in getting rid of firefox and switching to chromium just to use it as I have firefox nicely configured for what I need from it. Switching to windows on my laptop isnt viable either as it's so shit it can basically only run very light linux distros.

    Thanks in advanced!
     
  2. Have you considered using Pi Hole for this purpose?
     
  3. todolist

    todolist Fapstronaut

    looks interesting! Thanks for the tip. TBH it looks pretty complicated and I'm not much of a tech guy. If there's a simpler solution I'll probably go with that, if not I'll give it a try!
     
  4. If you can get somebody to help you with a technical side that's actually always helpful so you can't disable it yourself very easily. But it's designed as an ad blocker and isn't going to be perfect, I'm sure not as robust as Cold Turkey.
     
  5. todolist

    todolist Fapstronaut

    Looked into it a little more and it doesn't seem to complicated so might give it a go. Seems to have a pretty basic black/white-list system. problem is that it can be turned on and off at will and isn't really something you'd want to lock yourself out of permanently. Thanks for the advice though! Might just get it anyway as it seems like a good way to block ads.
     
  6. Yeah one thing is to make an incredibly long password you couldn't possibly remember and store it somewhere off-site or time restricted, but you'd have to think about where that might be.
     

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