User Experience on Blocked Pages

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Brian Moore

• February 09, 2022 00:08

Quick question, I can't seem to find a concrete answer to:

 

When you set up rules to block things like, porn or facebook etc,  what does a user see on their browser/device when they try to visit one of those pages?

Does it just not resolve? Or do they get a "this site has been blocked by your firewall for: x reason".

 

I'm considering FWG for both my home and office, if I put it in my office, I'd want my employees to know they were blocked from X site so if it was blocked accidentally or needed to work they could request it be unblocked rather than just assuming it was down and stopping work.

 

Thanks.

 

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  PandW

  • February 11, 2022 21:01

  "Unable to connect

  An error occurred during a connection to facebook.com.

      The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
      If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
      If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web."

   

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  Jeromy Markwort

  • December 14, 2024 13:18

  I would also like a custom block page. I used to use PFSense with Dan’s Guardian with a custom block page that included a way for users to ask for the site to be unblocked. This was a really nice feature.

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  Firewalla

  • December 14, 2024 17:56

  Can you send the instructions how these devices can forward to a 'custom block page'. My understanding this is NOT possible, unless you start "accept" foreign certificates via your browser, or install a firewalla certificate, both a very very dangerous and not worth the risk

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