Hello
I need help with blocking a few specific sites on my mac
I know you've got to play around with the host files to block a site and know how to do that and I am able to block almost all the sites I want blocked.
I follow these instructions and i get sites blocked.
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Use Finder to search for the application Terminal.
In there type: sudo pico /etc/hosts
Enter your root password.
Use the arrow keys to move down to the bottom line and then type:
127.0.0.1 www .thesiteyouwanttoblock.com
There is a space between 127.0.0.1 and www.
User Ctrl+X to exit and Y to Save.
Then type lookupd -flushcache
Quit the Terminal and restart Safari
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But there are a few sites that seem to not get blocked.
for example, if I attempt to block Yahoo.com and gawker.com, yahoo will get blocked and gawker.com wont.
I have noticed that the sites that refuse to get blocked start out with 'http://' and do not have the 'www' on their URL. for example,
http://gawker.com is how the URL appears on my address bar.
any help/suggestion will be greatly appreciated.