[tep]

I experience this problem on a daily basis, too. A few days ago I decided to set up another user account on Ubuntu. That one, I use from 9 to 5. On this account only work related programs can be used (but no e-mail client!). What's more, I installed Leechblock[1] for Firefox. It blocks every website that is not Wikipedia or university-related.

Hopefully this will work out in the long term.

[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/leechblock/

[fluidcruft]

Why is there nothing as annoyingly effective as leechblock for chrome? Why? It's almost as if Google prefers you to get lost in the web, rather than work.

[zyfo]

Of course, time on the web and adword clicks are highly correlated!

Jokes aside, there's always StayFocusd: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/laankejkbhbdhmip...

[fluidcruft]

StayFocusd provides more of a gentle hint but is not an effective cage. You should compare it to leechblock's "evil" modes. Like forcing you to type a 64-character random stream of letters and digits (that can't be copied and pasted) before accessing settings or disabling the extension when in lockdown. StayFocusd is just a right click away from being disabled, it's really not even worth installing.