This the list of websites people are procrastinating at. Use this list to enter and block these websites with various blockers including Windows parental controls, Apple Screentime and with anti-procrastination tools and plugins. The lists of websites are below.

• In Windows search toolbar type Notepad
• Notepad will appear in the list of apps
• Right-click on Notepad and select Run as Administrator. This will run Notepad app
• Select File and Open
• Select All Files in File Types
• Enter c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in the filename and click Open
• This hosts file will look something like this:

# websites
11.22.33.44 somesite.com
...
...

• Open the list of all websites compiled by this tool in a separate window
• Copy all lines
• Switch to Notepad and paste lines below the existing content
• Use File and Save in the menu in Notepad to save updated hosts file
• Congratulations! Now all the websites from the list are blocked on your computer

Another tutorial on changing c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file: How to update hosts file on Windows for details.

Alternatively, if you are not an experienced user, you may want to use Windows 10 built-in Parental Controls and add websites to be blocked manually. Here is the tutorial

• Run Screentime settings on Mac OSX desktop computers or iOS devices (iPhone, iPad
• In Content & Privacy Restrictions - Content Restrictions go to Web Content and change to Limit Adult Websites
• Manually add websites from [sites-all.txt] into the list of blocked websites

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• Set app Parental controls and blocking websites
• Use [sites-all.txt] to add websites to the list of blocked websites

• TBD

Final lists:

• sites-all.txt - final list with all websites from all categories
• hosts.txt - final list with websites to block, ready to to copy and paste into c:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file on Windows

Source lists are in this folder

• add websites to lists
• add new lists into /lists folder. Name like this sites-{category} where category is the category of these websites.
• add websites without www. domains as www. versions are added automatically by the script
• finally run bash generate.sh to combine and compile all lists into final lists: sites-all.txt and hosts.txt
• commit and create a pull request

Eugene Mi https://github.com/emirn

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