Parental and workplace controls: service, social and content blocking

Beyond adverts and threats, Deep Packet Filter (DPF) includes controls that let an administrator shape what a network can reach. These make DPF useful for families wanting a safer home connection and for businesses managing acceptable use.

What's included:

• User service blocking — restrict specific online services on your network.
• User social blocking — limit access to social platforms, useful for focus at work or safety at home.
• User content blocking — filter categories of unwanted content network-wide.
• White-lists and black-lists — explicitly allow or deny particular domains to fine-tune the defaults.

Why it works so well as a household or office control: because everything is enforced at the DNS layer, the rules apply to every device behind your connection automatically — phones, tablets, games consoles and smart TVs included — with nothing to install on each device.

All of this is managed through DPF's admin tools, and it sits alongside the automatic ad, malware, tracker, telemetry and phishing filtering that's on by default.