What it is about

This the list of websites people are procrastinating at. Use this list to enter and block these websites with various blockers including Windows parental controls, Apple Screentime and with anti-procrastination tools and plugins. The lists of websites are below.

How to block websites

Windows (for all apps, works for Windows XP to Windows 10)

• In Windows search toolbar type Notepad
• Notepad will appear in the list of apps
• Right-click on Notepad and select Run as Administrator. This will run Notepad app
• Select File and Open
• Select All Files in File Types
• Enter c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in the filename and click Open
• This hosts file will look something like this:

# websites
11.22.33.44 somesite.com
...
...

• Open the list of all websites compiled by this tool in a separate window
• Copy all lines
• Switch to Notepad and paste lines below the existing content
• Use File and Save in the menu in Notepad to save updated hosts file
• Congratulations! Now all the websites from the list are blocked on your computer

Another tutorial on changing c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file: How to update hosts file on Windows for details.

Alternatively, if you are not an experienced user, you may want to use Windows 10 built-in Parental Controls and add websites to be blocked manually. Here is the tutorial

Apple devices (Mac, Macbook, iPad, iPhone)

• Run Screentime settings on Mac OSX desktop computers or iOS devices (iPhone, iPad
• In Content & Privacy Restrictions - Content Restrictions go to Web Content and change to Limit Adult Websites
• Manually add websites from [sites-all.txt] into the list of blocked websites

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Ubuntu

• Set app Parental controls and blocking websites
• Use [sites-all.txt] to add websites to the list of blocked websites

Android

• TBD

Lists of websites to block

Final lists:

• sites-all.txt - final list with all websites from all categories
• hosts.txt - final list with websites to block, ready to to copy and paste into c:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file on Windows

Source lists are in this folder

Contribute

• add websites to lists
• add new lists into /lists folder. Name like this sites-{category} where category is the category of these websites.
• add websites without www. domains as www. versions are added automatically by the script
• finally run bash generate.sh to combine and compile all lists into final lists: sites-all.txt and hosts.txt
• commit and create a pull request

Authors

Eugene Mi https://github.com/emirn

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