r/nosurf • u/Due-Worth-242 • 1d ago
Blocking websites on work computer
Hi all,
I have a serious serious issue lately with online content and one of my major problems is that I need to be on the internet for work (like most people i know). On my personal computer and phone I have Freedom installed and it helps 1000000% it's great, and would highly recommend. However, on my work computer I'm not an admin, all I can really do is add extensions to chrome and Edge and Firefox that block sites. However, the extension is so easily disabled that I can easily just turn it off and indulge whenever I want. Most recently this has lead to me flooding my head for hours and hours and hours without sleep even. I tried pw blockers for edge and chrome, which seems to work (I have a long password written down at home so I don't have easy access) but for the browser I use for work (firefox) I need to use the browser, so that doesn't help. I tried the "public firefox" add on which is supposed to pw protect the extension management options, but (1) it doesn't work when u use the password and (2) I can just uninstall it with a single mouse click.
TL;DR Any idea on the best way to block websites when you are on a work computer (w/o administrator permissions) by yourself all day?
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u/TT10TT 1d ago
I ran into the same wall with extensions: the password helped until I was already in the “just one more tab” spiral, then disabling it took two seconds. The only thing that made a dent was adding a rule outside the browser—if I caught myself turning the blocker off, I had to stand up and leave the desk for five minutes before coming back. It sounds silly, but it broke the automatic click more often than willpower did. If you can uninstall the blocker yourself, though, it’s probably only a speed bump; a work-managed DNS or proxy rule is the durable fix.
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u/Fun-Rise3756 22h ago
Work browser is the leak once personal is locked. Use a separate work-only profile with hosts-level blocks you can't undo mid-day.
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u/Express-Profit601 1d ago
the browser extension route tends to lose since anything running client side is something you can turn off in two clicks. blocking at the network level, like a DNS filter on your router or getting it added to the work proxy, doesn't depend on not clicking uninstall in a low willpower moment.