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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 -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/hosts file.

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