Setup a PiHole and add them to the blocklist. Then make the PiHole password stupid long and write it down. Then take the paper, put it in a safe, and put it in the highest shelf in the back of your closet. Recurse safes and passwords as much as needed.
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You’re gonna have better luck changing your habits than you will making a block that you yourself can’t overcome.
Creating hurdles can help lowering the temptation. I totally get OP.
Therapy of some sorts is probably going to be more effective than making self-blocks, especially if you're technically competent. I wish you luck with stopping whatever addiction it is.
Therapy is probably a better option.
If redirecting with /etc/hosts isn't enough, you could set up a cron job (I guess as root?) to re-copy a hosts file back to /etc/hosts every half hour or something. That way even if you do manually change /etc/hosts for an quick peak of an illicit website, it'll go back to being blocked in a short amount of time. This'll add a bit of the "pain in the ass" factor.
Only thing I can think of is to remove your default account from the sudoers file and have an account with a frustratingly long password written on physical paper hold the keys to the kingdom. That will make a whole lot of other things a hurdle too though.
Yeah, whatever roadblocks are set up can easily be dismantled using the same privs.
Only way to achieve this goal is to either hand the keys to someone else or to lock yourself out.
Just set the site to be hidden? If it's not in the list you didn't even know its an option and thus everything else is moot.
Pretty sure every search engine at thing point has a option to just "not show results from this website" or equivalent.
Out of sight out of mind.
i'm curious what websites are you doing. what's the threat model??