Blocking website on Google Chrome is one of the important step to protect the kids from various inappropriate online contents and ads. By referring below step-by-step guide, you can easily block a website on Chrome from any desktop, android or iPhone mobiles
There is no built-in option to block websites on Google chrome, you have to add a extension to your Chrome to block websites.
For Example: Now a days children are using parents mobile phones and systems they may open unnecessary websites which may not useful or unwanted content for their age, so parents can block the website by using chrome extension called Block Site.
Block Site – Block Site is a browser extension which is used to block the desired websites on Google.
How to block a website on Google Chrome Desktop
You can easily block the desired and unwanted websites on Google by following the below steps
Method 1: Using Chrome Extensions
Step 1: Open the Google Chrome Browser and navigate to https://chromewebstore.google.com.
Step 2:Search for the extensions – website blocker, site blocker or Blocksite. In this guide, we are showing using Blocksite extension to for blocking the sites.
Step 3: Click on ‘Add to Chrome’ button as shown below.
Step 4: Adding Extension to your Google account
Click on Add extension to add the block site extension to your account.
Step 5: Privacy policy
Read the privacy policy of Block site and click I Accept as shown below.
Step 6: Choose the Plan
You can choose the plan that how many months you want use Block site, You can choose the any of the listed plan, click on Skip for limited plan to use free for 3 days.
Step 7: Click + Add to Block List to block websites.
Step 8: Click on Websites and enter the name of the website that you want to block, after adding the website you want to block click Done.
Step 8: If you want to unblock the blocked website, click on delete symbol as shown below.
Method 2: Block Website on Chrome through Host File Edit
If you don’t want to use the extension, you can easily block website on Google Chrome by through host file update. Refer below step-by-step guide on how to block website through the host files on windows computer.
Step 1: Search for Run > Enter Drivers in the command field
Step 2: Under drivers, open etc
Step 3: On hosts file, right click > open with notepad
Step 4: Now add the following line at the bottom of the host file
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
Note: You can update any other website that you want to block.
Step 5: Save the file.
Step 6: Now restart the chrome browser.
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