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Do you find yourself accessing Facebook, Twitter, or other distracting websites when you really should be doing something else instead? Block that website in Google Chrome. Other solutions will let you block websites for children at dwelling house or employees, also.

How to Quickly Cake a Website for Yourself

Blocking websites with the Block Site Chrome browser textension.

We recommend Block Site for Chrome for quickly blocking websites. Install it, and yous can utilise the extension's simple options to define a list of blocked sites. You can even set up a redirection, so you lot're automatically pointed at a website you should exist using (perhaps your workplace'due south website) when you visit a blocked site. Or, enable it on a schedule so you can look at Facebook all you lot want—every bit long as it's outside of the hours you should define.

This isn't foolproof. In fact, it'due south the opposite. You can quickly edit Block Site'south permissions to unblock websites. And, while you tin can define countersign protection, anyone using your figurer could open up whatsoever other web browser to become around the block. It's a style to keep yourself on track and add some boosted friction earlier yous admission a website—that's all. It'southward not a way to control access to websites for children at home or employees in an organisation

If you don't want an extension like Block Site to run on every website you visit, you tin can employ Google Chrome's extensions permissions to restrict its access. For example, if you lot merely desire to cake Facebook, yous could restrict Block SIte to but run on facebook.com.

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Experienced geeks may be used to blocking websites using their system's hosts file, which lets y'all define a custom list of domains and the IP addresses associated with them. Note that Google Chrome ignores your organization'due south hosts file. This prevents malware from redirecting websites similar Facebook to malicious locations, but it too prevents yous from blocking websites like Facebook in the same way. That's why the extension is so useful.

How to Cake Websites With Parental Controls

Blocking websites on an Asus router with the URL Filter List feature.

The Block Site extension works fine—for yourself. Merely you lot can't effectively use it to block access to websites for your children.

Many Wi-Fi routers take built-in website-blocking features, and that will work much amend than this Chrome extension. If your router has such a characteristic, yous can tell your router to cake a website, and no one on your Wi-Fi network will be able to admission it. People could still use VPN or proxies to get around the blacklist, of course—nothing is foolproof.

You might also want to examine parental command software that runs on your figurer itself. In addition to third-party parental control software, your operating system contains some useful tools.

For example, the Family features in Windows 10 volition allow you cake websites for a child account. On a Mac, the Screen Fourth dimension feature added in macOS Catalina will let you restrict admission to sites. On a Chromebook, you can utilize Family Link to control which websites a child's business relationship tin visit.

How to Cake a Website in an Organisation

Organizations using Chrome Enterprise tin apply Chrome's URLBlacklist characteristic to block individual websites. This feature is intended for IT professionals managing an organization'due south devices and won't help you manage Chrome at home. Consult Google'south website-blocking documentation for more than information.