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Safeguard - blocking a site

Nottodaythanks — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 09:40:07 GMT

I can block other sites but not DuckDuckGo

Can anyone tell me why this is.

I'd like t be able to block this, have triend different web addresses, but nothing works.

Would be appreciated.

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Baldrick1 — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:16:04 GMT

@Nottodaythanks

Why would you want to block a search engine? Surely if you don’t want to use it you delete it from your computer, or has it some features of which I’m not aware?

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Nottodaythanks — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:02:39 GMT

If anyone can help me block this site, your help would be appreciated.

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

jab1 — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:13:42 GMT

@Baldrick1 I thought DuckDuckGo was a search engine, not a browser?

@Nottodaythanks I'm interested why you would want to block this site, but don't know why you can't.

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Baldrick1 — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:20:04 GMT

@jab1

Whoops you are quite right. Original post corrected. Maybe the OP likes to have their browsing activity tracked by the likes of Google?

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Nottodaythanks — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:17:37 GMT

It bypasses security and safety features that are in Chrome an Edge.

Thank you

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Baldrick1 — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:29:02 GMT

@Nottodaythanks

So why install it or allow it to be installed? I think that what you need is an Application blocker rather than a web site blocker. I don’t know whether safeguard has this capability. Maybe there is a security suite on your computer that will do the job?

As @jab1 has pointed out, DuckDuckGo is a search engine, not a web browser like Edge and Chrome. I don’t know about Edge but I am pretty sure it can be installed in Chrome in place of the bundled Google browser.

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Nottodaythanks — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:30:13 GMT

Its a website

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

jab1 — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:01:32 GMT

@Nottodaythanks wrote:

It bypasses security and safety features that are in Chrome an Edge.

Thank you

Which ones? - FYI it is probably safer than Google, as pointed out by @Baldrick1

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Baldrick1 — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:15:44 GMT

@Nottodaythanks wrote:

Its a website

If you put, for example, 'DuckDuckGo download for PC' into Google you will find a list of independant sites (I counted 7 on the first page) from which you can download this search engine. I looked no further. Bearing this in mind what do you hope to gain by blocking just the DuckDuckGo IP address?

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

adam945 — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:14:20 GMT

If it's a specific website that you're trying to block @Nottodaythanks, you should be able to do this on your SafeGuard settings on your Member Centre. I was going to have a look at mine and provide some screenshots but I think the website is having some problems at the minute

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Nottodaythanks — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:19:26 GMT

SafeGuard won't block it

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Gandalf — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 20:45:22 GMT

What's the specific URL of the site you're typing in to the Safeguard tool to block?

Also, once you've saved the changes, are you turning your router off & on before browsing to the blocked site?

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Nottodaythanks — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 08:32:19 GMT

I tried

https://duckduckgo.com/

and

www.duckduckgo.com

Also restarted the hub.

Any other suggestions?

thank you

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Gandalf — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:27:33 GMT

Thanks for getting back to me @Nottodaythanks

Are you using one of our routers or a third party router? If ours, which one is it?

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Nottodaythanks — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:00:05 GMT

Yours

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Gandalf — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:42:08 GMT

@adam945's added the website to his Safeguard and he's going to check it when he's home tonight as he's in the office.

I'm working from home and I'd try but I'm using a Linksys router and playing around with the DNS servers to change it to the ones which Safeguard uses will interrupt the internet I'm currently working from.

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Nottodaythanks — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:59:32 GMT

I do not understand this.

If there is any way to block this website with the Plusnet router, please let me know.

Thanks

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

bobpullen — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:57:49 GMT

@Nottodaythanks wrote:

I tried

https://duckduckgo.com/

and

www.duckduckgo.com

You do not need to enter the http(s):// prefix.

Given DuckDuckGo favour their domain without the www prefix, then I would recommend you try blocking the site by simply entering duckduckgo.com if you haven't attempted that already. If Safeguard is already enabled then a reboot of the router is not necessary.

Re: Safeguard - blocking a site

Nottodaythanks — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:43:48 GMT

That worked

Thank you!