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Designing friction instead of blocking: what I learned building a screen-time app
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The problem with every blocker I tried
I've tried the usual stuff on my own phone: hard limits, one-tap locks, deleting apps. They all fail the same way. The block is absolute, so the fix is absolute too β you flip the switch off, and you're back to zero. Every attempt resets to the same starting line.
My wife had the same pattern, worse: down at eleven, still awake at two, half of it short video and half of it shopping...
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