Regain focus by blocking Facebook and Youtube access from your local machine. This tool adds or removes Facebook & Youtube urls to your local hosts file to block access.
npm i faceblock -g
Blocking access to Facebook & Youtube:
sudo faceblock on
Unblock access to Facebook & Youtube:
sudo faceblock off
Note that Sudo is required to write to your
/etc/hostsfile.
Faceblock rewrites all hostname lookups for a list of Facebook urls back to your own computer. The following list is added to your /etc/hosts file when turning it on:
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 youtube.com
127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com
127.0.0.1 play.google.com
Feel free to submit PRs to this repo. Ideas for future improvements:
- Add Twitter and other social media support
- Non-OSX support?
MIT © @louwhopley