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I'm trying to fight my bad habit of wasting time on time-consuming websites such as reddit/liveleak etc.

The only thing which seems to work is adding a line like this to my etc/hosts 127.0.1.1 www.reddit.com

It works for a few days but then when i got nothing to do i edit this file and remove this line and start wasting my life again.

Is it a way to make my etc/hosts file immune to changes that would delete something from it ? (So that i would only be able to add things to it when i stumble upon a website which i think is a potential threat for my time).

It is really important for me and i will be extremely grateful for any help.

A.B.
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  • This has nothing to do with Ubuntu but with you getting a spine ;) Want you want is impossible and it totally up to your mentality. – Rinzwind Jun 14 '15 at 11:02
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    Naa you want to add to a file ... that means you can always remove lives. Impossible to enforce. Only you yourself can enforce yourself (or hire someone to stand next to you with a stick ;) ) – Rinzwind Jun 14 '15 at 11:07
  • @Gero1913 How about finding a compromise ? You could spend some time on the websites and then spend some doing something productive. You've also said "when I've nothing to do". How about finding a hobby ? Like, language learning or . . . .answering questions and helping people here, on askubuntu ? "Nothing pacifies the mind as having steady purpose" (Marry Shelley, Frankenstein) – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jun 14 '15 at 11:09
  • Why do you change your question and make of it an answer? – A.B. Jun 14 '15 at 11:19
  • Several related questions (with answers) were asked on the Personal Productivity site. – Jos Jun 14 '15 at 11:35
  • I had the same problem. The system needs hosts file, so you can't encrypt it or anything else. I added firewall to the router, changed the password of the router to some string leaving some symbols known. I've also saved the hash of the password, so if I indeed have to log in to router I can bruteforce it in several hours. – randomlogin Jan 17 '20 at 01:41

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TL;DR Unfortunately, your self-control cannot be configured.

If you want to prevent yourself from editing this file, it will not be possible as long as you are logged in with your administrator account (sudo rights). Create a new user without administrator privileges and work with this account.

Or by editing the configuration of your router and forbid it from that side.

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