[Pimpus]

This wouldn't work for me - my to-do list only grows bigger, not smaller :-)

Anyway, I've had a lot of success with Cold Turkey for blocking distracting websites and applications. I even bought a license for the extra features since it is so good. So yeah, I recommend it. Not affiliated.

[mtmail]

Just adding the direct URL https://getcoldturkey.com/ MacOS/Windows (not affiliated either, first time I see it)

[aantix]

Cold Turkey is great. After starting a session, I tried all of the basic stuff like looking through the /etc/hosts file or unloading the plist. None of it seemed to disable it, so I have been less distracted ever since.

[13of40]

What do you do when you're building?

[dotancohen]

SSH into a remote server and read HN using w3m.

Gotta go, compiler throwing errors...

[121789]

Yep, Cold turkey is great. I use Freedom for IOS for similar functionality.

[yitianjian]

Freedom's been removed from the iOS App Store, unfortunately :(

[121789]

Whoa, must be recent. Do you know of any alternatives?

[utefan001]

My iOS app studycity may provide what you are looking for. If not, we might be able to modify it to provide some of the features freedom did.

[121789]

I'm pretty certain that Freedom (and many other ad-blocking apps) got banned because they were using a VPN for uses other than a strict VPN. Your app uses a VPN for access control, right? Why do you think it won't be banned?

EDIT: I don't want that to sound hostile at all...genuinely curious

[utefan001]

Fair question. There are a number of differences between apps like Freedom and StudyCity. We are aware of the recent VPN rules. StudyCity simply needs a gate to direct the student / child to take a couple of minutes to earn points on Khan Academy or another supported site. The gate can be implemented in many ways. At the moment, this is all the detail I can provide.