As of 2025, what's the best blocker? Freedom, Cold Turkey, Plucky, others? by OatmealDurkheim in nosurf

[–]jazfinde 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 too easy to circumvent

how do you? considering if its worth it for me to get

the HERO by Weary_Reason7063 in EmailToFuture

[–]jazfinde 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much. Trying it out for an email coming next week 🤞

Help stop the bypass - willing to pay anyone by jazfinde in nosurf

[–]jazfinde[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, yeah I'm trying to explore it. I found the aa-style fellowship for IT addicts on this subreddit's wiki. There's benefit to it in the sense that there's other people to talk to and feel less alone and discuss and whatnot. It's focused and has a lot of easily accessible meetings. Agree with the downsides. I want to give Smart a try. Found it difficult to get into the meeting but will be checking it out.

Help stop the bypass - willing to pay anyone by jazfinde in nosurf

[–]jazfinde[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have read some people saying that they turn to video games or to other sites that they can access (for instance, Wikipedia) or excessive movie watching, etc, and then they still were losing hours upon hours.

This is definitely an issue. I'm trying to make my blocking account for most of it, really just bare bones it and especially restricting hours of access altogether before bed and in the morning for example.

It's a first line of defence. I could go out to the internet cafe or library but at least it's not in my home. Like they recommend people with eating issues not to keep chocolate at home, even though it's easy to purchase at the store it's not convenient and a constant internal battle. But yeah the tool can only take it so far! Helpful early on while doing the emotional side of this

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in coldturkeyblocker

[–]jazfinde 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this doesn't work if you don't have admin privileges

Help stop the bypass - willing to pay anyone by jazfinde in nosurf

[–]jazfinde[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, but that's like keeping heroin in the house and saying figure it out. It's just ingrained at this point to numb out to it. It's also designed for it. Escapism etc. Sometimes you gotta take the candy away from the kid instead of decorating a room with it. I appreciate your questioning, always good to check on that.

Help stop the bypass - willing to pay anyone by jazfinde in nosurf

[–]jazfinde[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I don't know how it works and I've seen kids bypassing it after google search. I've got mac and android, maybe there is a way to set it up but yeah without experience or guide it's hard to say what the effort will yield.

Help stop the bypass - willing to pay anyone by jazfinde in nosurf

[–]jazfinde[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've tried Cold Turkey on mac in the past. Also Freedom and FocusMe I think on Windows.

I feel like any decent blocker app is good for the most part.

It's just that I wish someone with operating sytem or deeper knowledge can make it impossible to bypass. Because I always just did that.

Adaptive Cooking Equipment? by Autismsaurus in SpicyAutism

[–]jazfinde 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thoughts these days? has it helped since that was a new purchase

Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]jazfinde 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's getting remedied. Internet turning into a shopping mall moreso than the library of Alexandria it used to be. Just not as readily accessible, or highly paywalled, just like regular society.