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July 12, 2025, 07:36:13 PM
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Well lately I have been falling back to gambling addiction and it looks like I can't stop no matter how hard I try. The problem is that I only love to play 90% of the times from my Linux machine in my home as I love to play from the comfort of my home and was thinking what to do to block these websites of the casinos I play and resorted to REJECTING traffic from the iptables command in the firewall of my Ubuntu machine, well it worked like a charm and I don't intend to delete these rules ever. In fact I have already forgotten the rules though and I don't intend to check back. I intend to keep my promise to myself to stop gambling altogether and I will totally achieve it because I am very decisive about it. No one can stop me now, it was that going from 20 to 800 dollars and losing it all that made me do this. In case anyone is in my same shoes here are the rules to REJECT traffic, also there is needed both INPUT and OUTPUT.


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July 12, 2025, 07:45:33 PM
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Well it's great to hear you finally able to pull some restrain about it. I hope you won't start playing from another device. That said  make it complicate so that you won't get that much energy for just playing gambling to solve all of those. Keep up your consistency. I heard a new hobby takes to 3weeks to build up. Instead of gambling build a new hobby which may fill your this free time over. I hope it won't be that hard to do it.

For me I always play in mobile . So I try to kept me busy other things, logged out all my account, clear data my browser. It keeps me to not remembering gamble

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July 12, 2025, 07:55:04 PM
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You know what’s actually best for you, so push for it if you think gambling has only made your finances at mess. It’s a good, earning opportunity when you are gambling the right way, but if you are going through gambling addiction and that makes you unable to control your own emotions, then do the best thing you can to beat your gambling addiction.

Cut your access to your gambling apps, and delete them for good. You know it won’t be easy at first, but if you can divert your gambling time into some other productive hobby, I know you’ll get used to it in time. Discipline has a big role in fighting against your gambling addiction.

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July 12, 2025, 08:00:43 PM
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This is very great but I do not understand it at all but I have a very good mindset towards gambling which will let me not think of ways to stop gambling or gambling addiction because I am not addicted to gambling at all or losing the money I do not want to lose to gambling.

I just have one advice for you which is that you should learn how to deal with gambling from your mind, this will really help you. You can do it, it is possible as you know already that gambling is just a way to lose money and for gamblers to enjoy the games.

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July 12, 2025, 08:05:37 PM
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Okay, it is good you are taking some serious steps to fight this gambling addiction, and I truly hope it works out for you. But, honestly, I dont think this specific fix will hold up long-term. You claim you are "very decisive" and "no one can stop you now." Yet, you just admitted "you couldnt stop no matter how hard you tried".  You have blocked casino websites on your machine using iptables rules. Thats ok for that one machine, but this isnt a permanent or foolproof solution. And you are probably aware that its trivially easy to bypass this.  

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July 12, 2025, 08:16:41 PM
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This decision is spot on, what it'll do is reduce the frequency of your gambling desire. Eventually, if you get to start playing again, you'd be very much in control. I had similar experience with a certain chess game that consumed most of my time, but as soon as I deleted the software, and stopped playing the game for a while, the control returned back to me. When I reinstalled the game, they was a massive change towards how I approach it. Stopping when I wanted to wasn't a hassle anymore.

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July 12, 2025, 08:23:22 PM
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I hope it works out for you, but don’t let it be a permanent thing, try to learn from your mistakes and beat the addiction so you can still enjoy gambling the right way. What a waste, most of us are here to have fun. If you’re still active in crypto but completely avoiding gambling, you might end up missing a part of what makes you happy, especially when you keep seeing gambling-related posts and you’re forcing yourself not to gamble.

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I'm glad for you that you're acting in favor of your own improvement, and I hope that strategy continues to benefit you, although I believe that what makes you change is your own desire and will. Blocking traffic from betting sites is just an invisible barrier that you put up for yourself, since you could easily undo it, and if you haven't done so, good for you and your resilience.

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July 12, 2025, 08:45:37 PM
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I'm glad for you that you're acting in favor of your own improvement, and I hope that strategy continues to benefit you, although I believe that what makes you change is your own desire and will. Blocking traffic from betting sites is just an invisible barrier that you put up for yourself, since you could easily undo it, and if you haven't done so, good for you and your resilience.

Yeah that is the point of it, despite working as Linux System Administrator in real life it will be easy for me to undo the rules and delete them but that is not the reason I created them in the first place, I created them to act as a barrier and every time I will have a desire to go gambling before just firing up my browser where all my credentials were saved now I get a "network error" or "err connection refused" which will act as a first point of barrier, they will make me think before continuing further, I was failing in here, I had everything setup and I just deposit and that it was it, now I can't deposit anywhere directly as I don't play from any other place 90% of the time. It all depends on the self will and thank you and all others here for your kind words, it may be don't look so but they give me a huge burst of desire to achieve that stop of gambling altogether.

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I intend to keep my promise to myself to stop gambling altogether and I will totally achieve it because I am very decisive about it. No one can stop me now, it was that going from 20 to 800 dollars and losing it all that made me do this.
It's actually nice you finally made a decision to stop falling, into getting addicted to gambling through, because addiction is actually that that only be overcome with strong mindset and your ability to avoid anything that could lure you into wanting to gamble just as you explained above. But however, in regards to this your  "Ubuntu machine" which you claim helps you to reject traffic from gambling websites through the use of iptables. So I would have loved to asked, does it mean this rule which you provided above, can it be used on browsers, or does it only work on the Ubuntu Machine?

 
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Congratulations to you mate, but this gambling section was to meant to help people stop gambling. Understand me if you had made the resolution to stop gambling you can do that but we don't need to hear it. Will it make sense to go to the Bitcoin section and post about your resolution to stop Bitcoin investment.
I don't see gambling as my problem and if I did I will just quitely do that without post here about it. If you are disciplined while gambling I believe you will be fine.

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If that is the measure which is helping you to fight addiction back, keep it up! My only question is regards its impact over your signature campaign job. You promote a casino and are being paid by this company. Do they pay you through your casino's personal account? If so, how are you going to access and withdraw your funds from the platform, since casinos' traffic is rejected on your machine?

Moreover, what will you do once temptation is too strong in a way you end using another device or another internet connection in order to continue gambling?

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July 12, 2025, 09:00:58 PM
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One of the best things about addiction is that when a gambler has come to recognize addiction as a problem, it means the effect of being affected is really disturbing the person, prompting them to look for ways to stop. If you know that blocking websites can help you with gambling addiction, or whatever you can get rid of to end your addiction, I think you are taking the best step to fight against gambling addiction. Many addicted gamblers haven't yet discovered the effects of gambling, and they are not even aware of their gambling addiction. If staying away from computer devices can help you overcome addiction, I would advise you to do so.

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Well lately I have been falling back to gambling addiction and it looks like I can't stop no matter how hard I try. The problem is that I only love to play 90% of the times from my Linux machine in my home as I love to play from the comfort of my home and was thinking what to do to block these websites of the casinos I play and resorted to REJECTING traffic from the iptables command in the firewall of my Ubuntu machine, well it worked like a charm and I don't intend to delete these rules ever. In fact I have already forgotten the rules though and I don't intend to check back. I intend to keep my promise to myself to stop gambling altogether and I will totally achieve it because I am very decisive about it. No one can stop me now, it was that going from 20 to 800 dollars and losing it all that made me do this. In case anyone is in my same shoes here are the rules to REJECT traffic, also there is needed both INPUT and OUTPUT.


If you are really decided not to gamble nothing can stop especially with that kind money you spend im not sure if that is monthly or weekly but having to start to control yourself is a great start, its great to use Ip tables for blocking that site, and they are really effective on blocking, while i use it before, i also tried pfsense for blocking the popups for gambling sites, and other works also like a charm, congrats and make good use of the money instead of putting it on to gambling.

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July 12, 2025, 09:15:45 PM
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This is very great but I do not understand it at all but I have a very good mindset towards gambling which will let me not think of ways to stop gambling or gambling addiction because I am not addicted to gambling at all or losing the money I do not want to lose to gambling.
He is already addicted to gambling and that's the best thing he can do by stopping it. I am happy that he has taken the bold step and right part with self determination on getting rid of his addiction. It's only when you stop gambling for long that it will be possible for you to be finally free.

It's when OP has stayed for a long time and is no longer an addict that he can think on how he can start gambling without getting addicted.
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"Last resort" means it's already a desperate move. Well, if that approach worked for you, then stick with it—but it still requires strong discipline since you’re the one in control. Good luck, and I hope you don’t end up addicted again with what you’re doing. Hopefully one day you’ll also realize that gambling isn’t really addictive if the right discipline is in place.

BTW, that firewall only applies to your PC, what about other devices like phones and tablets?
(Just a note: I’m not a Linux user, so I might not fully understand how your setup works.)

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Fighting addiction is so hard to do, but if you want freedom then you must apply all means to save yourself. You have to take every necessary step, i like as you already made a move to restrict yourself but one thing about quitting gambling addiction is that your mind works as a faster remedy than any other measure, make sure to seal your mined totally, don't try to limit the way you gamble instead this resort should be you quitting gambling entirely.

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July 12, 2025, 09:33:46 PM
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This is interesting- so you restricted yourself access from that website in order to force yourself to completely stop at one go.

Personally, I would suggest that you start slow instead of stopping abruptly because this has a higher chance of you relapsing. However, if this is not your first time attempting to completely stop from gambling, then what you did is correct especially that you acknowledged that you indeed suffer from addiction.

"Last resort" means it's already a desperate move. Well, if that approach worked for you, then stick with it—but it still requires strong discipline since you’re the one in control. Good luck, and I hope you don’t end up addicted again with what you’re doing. Hopefully one day you’ll also realize that gambling isn’t really addictive if the right discipline is in place.

Gambling perse is not entirely bad; it is the addiction that what makes it destructive especially if it goes out of control to the point that you cannot change it. What OP did is correct- he was desperate to stop it knowing that it has caused him both mental and psychological damage on his part.


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July 12, 2025, 09:39:17 PM
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While I commend you taking steps towards addressing your addiction, I don't know how successful it will actually be when you can likely reverse them with about 2 mins of effort. The most effective antigambling technique is probably to use the self exclude abilities that exist within the platform themselves, as they are often irreversible or you have to jump through lots of steps in order to get around them. I am not sure you suffer from a lack of self control that the most problematic gamblers out there really face but that is a good thing. Someone intelligent enough to be playing around with Linux firewall tables likely already knows the odds set against them.

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July 12, 2025, 09:44:29 PM
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Well lately I have been falling back to gambling addiction and it looks like I can't stop no matter how hard I try. The problem is that I only love to play 90% of the times from my Linux machine in my home as I love to play from the comfort of my home and was thinking what to do to block these websites of the casinos I play and resorted to REJECTING traffic from the iptables command in the firewall of my Ubuntu machine, well it worked like a charm and I don't intend to delete these rules ever. In fact I have already forgotten the rules though and I don't intend to check back. I intend to keep my promise to myself to stop gambling altogether and I will totally achieve it because I am very decisive about it. No one can stop me now, it was that going from 20 to 800 dollars and losing it all that made me do this. In case anyone is in my same shoes here are the rules to REJECT traffic, also there is needed both INPUT and OUTPUT.



Well, this is something definitely more extreme than just asking casinos to exclude you from their services, that is for sure...
On one hand I am very impressed with your commitment to keep your gambling addiction at bay, but on the other hand I am quite sad you had relapsed to a point where you consider yourself to be addicted again.  Sad

Though, haven't you considered what you are going to do when the urges start to accumulate and you feel like gambling and you find in a situation on which you feel tempted to use a different computer or going to other places like cybercafes to continue to gamble?
The reality about gambling and other addictions is the addicted person will always have options to access to their vice as long as they have got money to do so. This is not a issue about completely restricting yourself from gambling, because that is literally impossible, in the end this is your addiction versus your willpower to change your situation.

If you believe this was a necessary step, it means you willpower was not enough to keep you away from casinos. Please, if you feel you cannot hold it back any longer reach to some mental health professional... this is more serious than we could initially assume by reading your thread.

Good luck and please keep us updated on how things go.

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