Comment by ahmedfromtunis

Comment by ahmedfromtunis 8 hours ago

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All I really need right now is an app that would restrict certain apps usage to certain time slots.

I already cut my social apps usage to 2 hours per day, which is a huge success.

Now I want to stop myself from diving head-first into Instagram the moment I wake up. If only I can make these apps accessible only from 10am to 02pm.

Any suggestions?

(I tried parental control but it requires having only one logged-in account which I can't fulfill.)

sphars 8 hours ago

There may be DNS-based solutions. I use NextDNS to block reddit except for 7-10pm using the recreation time settings.

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  • dominis 7 hours ago

    I had the same problem, browser extensions weren't enough, and I wanted something system-wide. So I built Sinkzone [1], a DNS tool that blocks everything unless allowlisted. It’s open-source and works across OSs. Thought it might be helpful if you're looking beyond NextDNS.

    [1] https://github.com/berbyte/sinkzone

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  • ahmedfromtunis 7 hours ago

    It sadly doesn't work.

    I tried blocking Facebook on my phone using both the parental control option AND adding `facebook.com` to the deny list.

    Somehow, the app is still chugging along totally unbothered.

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