Block Twitch on Mac
Live streams have no pause button and no end point. Sloth blocks twitch.tv at the system level.
Twitch is uniquely addictive
Twitch streams are live, which means there's always FOMO about missing something. Chat is real-time. Raids jump you to another stream. There's no natural stopping point like the end of a video. You watch until you force yourself to stop.
How Sloth blocks Twitch
Sloth blocks twitch.tv at three levels: DNS, firewall, and browser redirect. Works in every browser. Locked sessions can't be stopped. The daemon keeps blocking even after you quit the app.
Block during the day, watch at night
Schedule Twitch to be blocked during work hours. Or set a daily budget so you get an hour of streams per day. Once the budget is used up, Twitch is blocked until tomorrow.
Ibo Gonzales
productivity researcher and founder of sloth