How to block content on your home router (Foxnews, Yahoo, Heritage.org, etc)
Did you know you can prevent certain Web sites and content from even appearing on your home computers? Think about it. No more ad revenue coming from your hits for inadvertently clicking on a Web site you have no interest in promoting.
It's accomplished by adding Web sites to your home router's keyword and/or Web Site blocks. DO NOT USE THE ONES SHOWN ABOVE. You can add character sets such as:
Web Site & Content
Buzz.yahoo.com
Foxbusiness
foxnews
heritage.org
info.yahoo.com
messenger.yahoo.com
news.yahoo.com
Notice that some of these are specific and some are more generic. The shorter generic ones are more powerful, since the router will block any URL Web address with these characters in it, while the longer ones would at least require that entire string of characters to prompt a block. You can experiment with many, both Domain names and keywords. You may get some initial false positives, but that just means you'll need to be more crafty in what you ask it to block.
You'll need to be able to login to your router for one thing. There's no other way of controlling your router without that. If it's made by Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, or one of the many off-the-shelf retail types, chances are good it has a feature for adding content you want blocked. You can Google for more information on your particular router. I won't go into procedural detail. There's too many differences from company to company to list all the possibilities, other than to say, what you're looking for to login, is your router's IP address, usually 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1. Type that into the URL bar.
Be sure to SAVE/APPLY YOUR CHANGES when you are done. This will make them effective immediately.
For a complete list of sites personal to your situation, just view your Browser's cookie list. (Google that too for whichever browser you're using, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc...). Each Web site that stores a cookie within your browser is listed. Be prepared, your cookie list can be quite extensive, while your final blocked keyword list will probably be very short, with no more than about 30 separate character strings. How many, is up to you.
Disclaimer: This thread is for those interesting in such Internet features. I'm not warranting anything by suggesting this is available to you. And the fact that I posted this thread on Democratic Underground, has no affiliation with Democratic Underground in any way, shape or form. The sites listed within are suggestions. The ones you use are at your discretion.
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I'm glad I saw this post, I think it will be seen by more folks if you repost it to the PC and Mac groups, at least.
