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App/Program Control


Does Fing have features that will allow app/program control or blocking? For example, I want my teenage son to have access to the internet but not for some apps/programs such as instagram or facebook.
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Marc Moderator, Beta Tester Posts: 2,182
I have one cost free solution but it will depend on how savvy the target users are. There is a product called opendns for example, where you can use it to filter web sites you don't want people to reach. It does this by blocking at the DNS resolution level. I used to set my DHCP server scope setting on my router to point everyone to use it and it worked like a charm. For system I wanted to keep out of that loop, I just added google's DNS as a manual override per system. This will fall apart of the target user knows about or can modify his or her DNS settings.Thats Daphnee, she's a good dog...5
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Thanks Andy
Thanks for the advice.
Andy
If you are on an iPhone there are parental controls “Screen Time” which allow you to finely control your children’s time on each app and which apps and websites . It works perfectly. You can combine that with the DNS solution above to get a bit more control. One issue with open DNS is it’s network dependent.