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This is an instruction on how to block websites on your computer
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Blocking Websites on mac.md

1. Edit the /etc/hosts

First open the hosts file:

sudo vim /etc/hosts

Then add the websites you want to be blocked. Make sure to keep the spacing between the ip and the website you want to be bocked. For it to work also with safari we need to add not noly the ipv4 address but also the ipv6 address.

127.0.0.1       twitter.com
::1/128         twitter.com
127.0.0.1       facebook.com
::1/128         facebook.com

2. Flush the cache

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

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