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Orbi not blocking sites in Keyword/Domain list
The original post is here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-not-blocking-sites-in-Keyword-Domain-list/td-p/1845336 Netgear has not replied to that post with a solution, but closed that pos...
And I just found out, the free modem that came with Spark fiber can block https urls without issue. Does this mean the modem passes text url to the Orbi router for http traffic, but encrypted url for https traffic?
Conax wrote:
And I just found out, the free modem that came with Spark fiber can block https urls without issue.
Don't know anything about this device implementation or the Spark service named Net Shield.
As I said, the https connection is either <=TLS 1.2, or the device is filtering plain text DNS. Both is technically feasible (hey I'm not Netgear, but they kow from where I'm coming from ....) so I can say the current Keyword Blocking feature is just j**k. Try using an encrypted DNS and you might find the computer does bypass....