Site blockers lose effectiveness as users learn to bypass them
Users of website blockers report that blocks eventually become a nuisance they habitually dismiss rather than a real deterrent, doing little to break the habit of navigating to distracting sites. The poster built a puzzle-gated blocker as a workaround, suggesting existing blockers fail to address the underlying habit-formation problem.
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