Once one reaches the stage of addiction, willpower by itself isn't enough to win against strong sudden urges. Specially when you have an unlimited free supply of the drug available one click away at any second. With this 100% Free Google Family Link + Pluckeye Lockbox Strategy you won't have the drug available on your Android Phone at any second anymore greatly reducing your relapses. For this you're gonna need: 1 - Your main e-mail account to be the monitored child account 2 - A second e-mail account to be the parental manager account 3 - An impossible to remember strong random password made from online generators such as: ぶGr9っだ=YZ集散A@6J!jNy^PrGN催い 日蝕 隠滅Hfb?NV)Hwt_,[h親達 熱源 雪Ln 4 - Low commitment of not saving the password somewhere easy, nor staying logged in as the parent account. (Resisting the urge to save a password is much easier than resisting the strong addiction urges) Once you lock the parent's account password inside a Pluckeye Lockbox, it's simply impossible to recover it until you manually set the unlock delay to run out. Now, you deciding to consume the drug will be a fully conscious and premeditated decision rather than a spur of the moment impulse. Step by Step: 1º - Create Pluckeye Lockbox Account Using your main e-mail account, create a Pluckeye Lockbox account at lockbox.pluckeye.net. Practice creating Lockboxes first, the max unlock delay is 28 days and you can't retrieve passwords until the delay runs out. 2º - Creating a parental manager account with a difficult password Create a new e-mail account to be the parental manager account and use a random password generator to generate a random and impossible to remember password. Paste in some foreign characters too if you want. Remember to not include any recovery information such as a secondary e-mail or phone number so you can't easily swap the parent email password. 3º - Setting up Google Family Link Google Family Link freely offers you all tools you need to completely block all undesired content from your cellphone. Fully block any apps, websites filtering, website allow/blacklist, block account addition/removal, block developer options, block both playstore and non-playstore apps installation. Of course you'll have to commit yourself to block away everything that makes you relapse, and you might fail sometimes until you reach your optimal settings. As far as it's known, it's currently impossible to bypass Family Link settings, factory reset is the only option. Still, losing all your phone data is a good motivator to not relapse. If you have no important data to lose, it's a good indicator you have no need for a smartphone or that your addiction might have reached such a serious stage where recovery is only possible by ditching smartphones. If you own multiple phones, consider ditching some of them. If you have the guts of using your relative phones, consider setting up Family Link on them too. (I had to live 4 years without Smartphones in order to recover, I was the happiest. Unfortunately because of my job, now I'm forced to have one) When logging in with the Parent Account, always log in using incognito mode so the password isn't saved and the session ends after the browser is closed. If you relapse, just log out, do the setup again and set the unlock delay for longer hours or days. 4º - (Bonus) Install Qustodio You can have a second layer of protection and better website filtering options by installing Qustodio. If you like it, consider buying the paid plans because Qustodio is one of the best options for Windows and the same strategy can be applied. I hope this strategy greatly reduce your relapses as it has reduce mine. Good luck.
I was going to share my Danger List and everything I had to block, but I'd rather not give you guys ideas that could increase your repertoire of how to relapse.
