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Mitigating third-party tracking





Beyond what I think of as older traditional network security methods such as IP firewalls and LAN Access Control (e.g., FingBox), I’m studying third-party tracking and how to mitigate the loss of private data. On Mac platforms, I’ve employed an unruly clutter of tools such as Disconnect.me, Better.fyi, Safari Preference settings, etc. But none are as useful to me as Little Snitch, especially the way it brings direct GUI control right to me, allowing me to see what web traffic and browsers are leaking out from our lans.
So, in addition to that, I’m also looking for ways to extend Little Snitch-like IP-level control to the scope of the whole LAN. Oversimplifying perhaps, Fing brings elements of Access Control, affordably. This is great, of course.
But I’d really like to see solutions for firewall filtering for the whole LAN based on IP header info. Sure, this probably means control of the router itself. But I’d like to ask the community what others have discovered.
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Community Manager at Fing
Community Manager at Fing
-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
Hi,
you could take a look at PfSense community edition and also Pihole:
https://www.pfsense.org/
https://pi-hole.net/
These two combined should do everything you want and more...
-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
From what I’ve read, the Trend Micro product looks encouraging. I’m somewhat concerned that it might not have the level of sophistication or fine-grained control that I need, given that it’s controlled via smart phone, but at $100, it’s a no brainer to test out.
Additionally, it looks like it’s not actually installed between the router and the modem, given that it plugs into the hub/lan the same way the fingbox does, that is, as another ethernet device on the lan I’m trying to protect.
I’ll get to the other excellent suggestions of PFsense and pi-hole at some point. I’m swamped at the moment but still want to remain engaged with this group.
-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain