Blocking a site via EE router

WARburton · 25 Jul 2024 at 11:02

So long story short. You can’t block sites via the EE router any more it says it all done via an app… I downloaded the app and it says this feature is not yet supported…

If I wanted to block a site for every device on my home hub how would I go about doing it now EE have removed it from the router

Dangerous · 25 Jul 2024 at 14:26

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Or Google DNS filters

Fishman · 25 Jul 2024 at 15:47

Standard disclaimer that DNS based blocking is trivial to get around if desired. For the probable use case it will work fine.

Steveocee · 25 Jul 2024 at 21:47

Fishman said:
Standard disclaimer that DNS based blocking is trivial to get around if desired. For the probable use case it will work fine.

Also trivial to stop people thinking they're clever getting around it

WARburton · 25 Jul 2024 at 23:47

Fishman said:
Standard disclaimer that DNS based blocking is trivial to get around if desired. For the probable use case it will work fine.

Yer the person we want to stop will find it very hard. This is more of a punishment than and out right block…

I’ve found me brothers pc running a few times with an auto clicker on Roblox. After working out this is had been running for about 8 to 12 hr’s each time. I’ve been asked to block Roblox on the home network for a week.

If you think about it. It’s like running a single GPU mining rig 12 hr a day.

WARburton · 25 Jul 2024 at 23:49

Would there be an easy was to block this on a single pc??

Fishman · 26 Jul 2024 at 05:58

Assuming you don't have a firewall with flexible options you could use the hosts file on the pc. This is a local DNS list so you tell it the website of interest is at a dummy IP address and it doesn't load. Manual update though.

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