easyblock

An extremely light-weight website blocker.

Overview

Why do I need a heavy-weight browser extension or clunky service running on my machine to block a few websites? I think a website blocker should be something that:

1. Blocks the sites that I want to block (for me, domains and subdomains are sufficient)
2. Can be turned on and off with ease
3. Is light-weight
4. Is open-source (I want to know what is happening under the covers)

easyblock is designed with these criteria in mind.

Usage

To use easyblock, simply put an .easyblock file in your home directory (~) with a domain on each line.

Here is an example configuration:

www.google.com
news.google.com
www.amazon.com
www.instagram.com
www.facebook.com
www.reddit.com

Then, to start blocking, run:

sudo python3 easyblock.py on

To stop blocking, run:

sudo python3 easyblock.py off

It's really that easy!

Tested On

• macOS Catalina 10.15.4
• Ubuntu 20.04