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Prosafe FVS336Gv3 - Content filtering not working
Hello, I enabled content filtering with keywords 'facebook', 'youtube' and XXX and users on LAN are still able to access the listed websites. I followed the instructions on the guide to set up th...
See if it makes a difference whether you try loading "http://facebook.com" versus "https://facebook.com". None of the FVS devices support blocking traffic to HTTPS-encrypted websites. This is a pretty glaring limitation, IMO, as nearly all big-name websites have both enabled HTTPs and have enabled secure redirect, so that when a user types "facebook.com" into a browser the HTTPS version is tried first.
The devices also cannot filter IPv6-enabled websites......
Thank you for the response train_wreck. I understand that it's a hardware limitation and there isn't much that I could do about the content filtering issue, I have dumped the netgear firewall and installed pfsense on an old computer and turned it to a firewall. Things are working smooth now.
Cheers!
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