So, how to block those sites you don't like to see on your browsers? You can check out TinyFilter, which is a free Chrome extension for you to do that.
After installation, you can see the extension icon in the Toolbar, clicking on the icon on any webpage, you can block it if you do not like to open it again, or you can trust it if you like to see it.
When a webpage is blocked, its entire site will be blocked, for example, if you have blocked the following webpage:
http://freenuts.com/aboutThen, all the webpages of the freenuts.com site will be blocked, as what you can see from the following image:
The above is the default and most easy way to use TinyFilter, and if you would like to make some customization, you can click the "Option" item from the extension icon, then you can see a window like the following:
In the Options window, you can make the following 5 interesting settings:
1. Enable Password Protection
If you set a password, then you will need to enter the password every time when blocking or trusting a site.
2. Change warning message
As default, when visiting a blocked site, you will see the following message:
This page is unavailable due to policy restrictions.Which you can replace with any other message you like.
3. Redirect blocked sites
You can redirect all the blocked sites to any site you like.
4. Add blocked keywords
When adding a blocked keyword, all the webpages included the keyword in the URL will be blocked.
5. Enable Profanity Filter
When adding a profanity word (such as "asshole"), then which will be replaced with "***" in any webpage, such as what you can see from the following image:
As default, there are already some profanity words, blocked keywords, blocked sites and trusted sites, which you can delete any time.
By the way, you can uncheck the "Enable Content Filter" option to disable the filters, and even check the "Stop all traffic" option to block all the sites in the world.
Although TinyFilter provides support for list subscriptions, which are supposed to use and update the filter settings from others, but during my test, this feature is disabled as default, and when you enable it, nothing will happen indeed.
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