[ISL]

Thanks for the catalyst to re-enable my /etc/hosts approach to simplifying my life.

I'm surprised to see that adding:

  127.0.0.1 youtube.com www.youtube.com

to /etc/hosts doesn't seem to block youtube, but every other line I added blocked/routed as expected. Is there something special about youtube and chromium?

[aeruder]

IPV6 can cause some issues around this because browsers will typically do an IPV4 and IPV6 lookup in parallel. Try adding a

    ::1 youtube.com www.youtube.com

also.

[smegma2]

Yes, some sites are more resilient somehow. I experience the same thing with twitter. You could try flushing your dns cache but IIRC that didn't even work for me.

[ISL]

It has now started blocking correctly. Must have needed something to get flushed.

Back to it.

  $ noprocrast.sh