faceblock v1.1.3
Faceblock - command-line tool to block Facebook
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.
Installation & usage
npm i faceblock -gBlocking access to Facebook & Youtube:
sudo faceblock onUnblock access to Facebook & Youtube:
sudo faceblock offNote that Sudo is required to write to your
/etc/hostsfile.
How it works
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
Contribute
Feel free to submit PRs to this repo. Ideas for future improvements:
- Add Twitter and other social media support
- Non-OSX support?
License
MIT © @louwhopley