Sometimes when we use our preferred browser we come across unwanted and annoying advertising pages that disturb the browsing experience. For this reason, here we will teach you how to block pages in chrome. Read on to know the steps you should follow.
It is very easy to block unwanted pages in Chrome
How to block pages in Chrome?
The Google browser has in its system some alternatives for blocking and protecting web pages. However, they were designed to block some basic elements - such as JavaScript and Images - from websites, not the entire page. Therefore, said blocking does not prevent access to these pages, but prevents you from continuing to browse it for security reasons.
Some pages are usually of an advertising nature, but others contain viruses and spam that, in the long run, become a problem for you and your devices when you are browsing and trying to download files.
Block pages in Chrome: How to do it?
First of all, open your Chrome browser. On the home page, go to the upper right, where you will find a button with three vertical dots. When you click, you will click on the option "Configuration" to enter the system settings.
Once standing in the window of "Setting", you will go down to the bottom of the page until you find the alternative of "Advanced configuration", to display the separate configuration menu.
Then you will go to "Privacy & Security". While there, you must click on the option "Website settings", which is used to configure the elements and content that you want to be able to show on the pages you visit.
Next, you will enter a page where different options are displayed where you can choose what type of content you allow to see on web pages. While there, you must enter the options of "JavaScript" and of "Images".
These last options are the ones that most affect the performance and the correct visualization of the pages to be visited. Therefore, in both JavaScript and Images, you will see the same menu with the options for display and Blocking.
In this case, you don't need to disable the display option on all pages. You will only choose, to select the action of "Add" and then that of "To block". Followed by this, a new window opens where you must write the direct URL of the page you want to block and click on "Add".
Ready! You already know how to block pages. And, from now on, you can add how many websites you want to block in Chrome elements. Although it is a method that can be effective for some pages, it does not always work for all.
Block an entire web page
If what you really want is to completely block a website so that you don't run into it when browsing, you should use extensions. One of the most important is BlockSite. Which you must download from the Chrome extensions page. Once you locate it, click on "Add to Chrome."
A window will be displayed where the extension will ask you for a series of permissions such as allowing notifications to be displayed in your browser, analysis and modification of data from the pages you enter and the administration of the elements of your browser.
If at this point, you show concern for your privacy, you can use another method since the data to be provided is quite personal, although it is necessary for the extension to work. But, if you decide to continue, click "Add extension".
After this, enter the page you want to block and then press the button blocksite, which is shown in the upper right next to the rest of the extensions you have installed.
When you have clicked it, a menu will open with the address of the web page you are on. Right there, you click the button "Block this site." Being in that same menu, you can also choose to "Edit list of blocked sites."
There, you will enter the extension's configuration page where you can manually enter the web addresses -URLs- of the pages you want to block. You just have to click on "Enter a web address", to add each of the sites.
On the other hand, you have the alternative of "White List Mode", which allows absolutely all web pages to be blocked, except those that you add in the allowed list.
BlockSite is an extension that executes the total blocking of web pages by domain or category.
The advantages of using blocksite, is that this extension has other quite useful options such as a "work mode", which is used to have a second blocking profile by words or to block pages with sexual content.
In addition, you have the option of "Password protection", which prevents access to blocked pages, unless you write a specific password to do so. Besides, you have the option to block certain web pages from other users. You can also read about How to remove ads from Chrome.
How to block adult content?
It usually happens that, for work reasons or prevention and protection of the consumption of content not suitable for children, pages of this type must be blocked in your browser.
Taking this into account, we can use the alternative that we mentioned before in the use of BlockSite. Where we only have to access the extension, select the categories tab and select the option "Adult". And voila, that easy, you can prevent your children from browsing those pages.
Block pages without using any extensions or programs
It is very possible that access to websites can be prohibited, without having the need to use programs in Google Chrome. For this, you must follow the following steps:
- Copy the following path in your Windows Explorer: c: WindowsSystem32driversetc.
- Right click on the file named "Hosts".
- Select the option of "edit the file with notepad".
Ready! In three simple steps, you know how to block google chrome web pages without programs. Being able to verify it, if you enter any web page that is on the block list.
Is there another alternative to blocking web pages?
If there is a possibility block web pages in Windows 10. In this way, the user will be prevented from entering certain pages, not only in Internet Explorer or Chrome, but in whatever browser is used.
To start the page block process, you will need to open the application "Memo pad". Once open, in the options bar select "Archive"/"To open" or using direct Windows command Ctrl+A, When you're at the window
A window will be displayed in which you must choose the file you want to open with the "Memo pad”. From there, enter the following location path: C: WindowsSystem32driversetc. Once there, you will select the file "hosts " and then you hit "To open".
After all the text that appears in the "Host", you will only write at the end of this the following: 127.0.0.1 ADDRESS. Substituting the word "address", for the web you want to block.
The initial IP in this file is always the same. You will only have to write, for each row that you add to the text of a website to be blocked. When you have finished adding all the web addresses you want, open the menu "Archive" and you select "Keep", to save and apply all the changes you made.
You can also do this by pressing the Windows command Ctrl+G, as long as you are within the application. Once the changes have been applied, access to the pages you have annotated must be restricted. And if you want to go back in to modify the pages or add more, you just have to go through the process that we have indicated.