Percival
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I'm 43, and I've been looking at girls online since my late teens. A couple of years ago I joined the Reddit NoPorn group, and got up to a year and half without porn, but have been slowly sliding back since then. So it's time to re-introduce some accountability, which was a tremendous help in the past.
I won't dwell on the negatives; I already know them, and I think everyone reading this does too. The positives: despite the slide, I'm even yet not as deep into the really bad kinds of porn as I used to be. And I haven't been going on long binges as, again, I used to do. I've broken free before, for a long time, and I was surprised that it wasn't as hard as I expected: years of porn-use doesn't require an equal number of years of recovery (but staying recovered is the hard part). If I did it once, I can do it again, and posting to an accountability forum was a key part before. So here I am.
I modified my hosts file last week to force DuckDuckGo to always show Safe Search results so I can't easily turn it off. It redirects all DDG searches to use the DDG safe search IP. For the record:
Open Notepad with administrator rights (right-click and choose Run As Administrator). Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and add this to the end:
# See https://www.leowkahman.com/2017/09/11/enforce-safe-search-on-google-youtube-bing/
# IP addresses can change; use https://dns.google/ to look them up again
# Google force safe search: forcesafesearch.google.com
::ffff:216.239.38.120 google.com www.google.com
216.239.38.120 google.com www.google.com
# Duckduckgo force safe search
::ffff:20.43.161.151 duckduckgo.com www.duckduckgo.com
40.89.244.237 duckduckgo.com www.duckduckgo.com
# Bing force safe search: strict.bing.com
::ffff:204.79.197.220 bing.com www.bing.com
204.79.197.220 bing.com www.bing.com
# Youtube force strict safe search
::ffff:216.239.38.120 youtube.com www.youtube.com m.youtube.com youtubei.googleapis.com youtube.googleapis.com youtube-nocookie.com www.youtube-nocookie.com
216.239.38.120 youtube.com www.youtube.com m.youtube.com youtubei.googleapis.com youtube.googleapis.com youtube-nocookie.com www.youtube-nocookie.com
I won't dwell on the negatives; I already know them, and I think everyone reading this does too. The positives: despite the slide, I'm even yet not as deep into the really bad kinds of porn as I used to be. And I haven't been going on long binges as, again, I used to do. I've broken free before, for a long time, and I was surprised that it wasn't as hard as I expected: years of porn-use doesn't require an equal number of years of recovery (but staying recovered is the hard part). If I did it once, I can do it again, and posting to an accountability forum was a key part before. So here I am.
I modified my hosts file last week to force DuckDuckGo to always show Safe Search results so I can't easily turn it off. It redirects all DDG searches to use the DDG safe search IP. For the record:
Open Notepad with administrator rights (right-click and choose Run As Administrator). Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and add this to the end:
# See https://www.leowkahman.com/2017/09/11/enforce-safe-search-on-google-youtube-bing/
# IP addresses can change; use https://dns.google/ to look them up again
# Google force safe search: forcesafesearch.google.com
::ffff:216.239.38.120 google.com www.google.com
216.239.38.120 google.com www.google.com
# Duckduckgo force safe search
::ffff:20.43.161.151 duckduckgo.com www.duckduckgo.com
40.89.244.237 duckduckgo.com www.duckduckgo.com
# Bing force safe search: strict.bing.com
::ffff:204.79.197.220 bing.com www.bing.com
204.79.197.220 bing.com www.bing.com
# Youtube force strict safe search
::ffff:216.239.38.120 youtube.com www.youtube.com m.youtube.com youtubei.googleapis.com youtube.googleapis.com youtube-nocookie.com www.youtube-nocookie.com
216.239.38.120 youtube.com www.youtube.com m.youtube.com youtubei.googleapis.com youtube.googleapis.com youtube-nocookie.com www.youtube-nocookie.com
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