Category Archives: Block Streaming

How to block facebook video without blocking facebook?

Now days, people can not image life without facebook, however, streaming videos in facebook can consume a lot of your bandwidth. Sometimes, you may want to block facebook videos without blocking the entire facebook websites.

WFilter can divide facebook video traffic from other traffic. We defined a new protocol named facebook videos.

This facebook videos protocol can block tls sites fbcdn-creative-a.akamaihd.net, video.xx.fbcdn.net which are hosting facebook streaming.

Steps to setup the blocking policy

1. Edit your blocking policy and click “edit” in “Applications”.

2. Search facebook and set to “status” to “deny”.

Done.

How to block online videos with WFIlter 4.1?

There are three ways to block online videos in WFilter 4.1:

1. Block video websites by url libiary in WFilter 4.1 .

Please refer to: How to block video websites

2. Block all video files. It only block videos playing and does not block websites.

Please refer to: How to block all video files

3. Block video protocols. You can block protocols in ‘Streaming’ to block video webiste and client.

Please refer to: How to block video streaming protocols?