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In my /etc/hosts file, I redirect distracting websites to 0.0.0.0 to block them. There's nothing stopping me from enabling a website beyond the effort to type in sudo vim /etc/hosts, but yet I now spend a lot less time on those websites. Human psychology is funny that way.
Aren't 0.0.0.0 entries ignored in /etc/hosts?
"After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness. I decoupled the action and the neurological reward by setting up a simple 30-second delay I had to wait through, in which I couldn't do anything else, before any new page or chat client would load (and only allowed one to run at once). The urge to check all those sites magically vanished -- and my 'productive' computer use was unaffected."