This document explains the procedure to blacklist and whitelist URLs on Chrome browser.
Sometimes as the case may be, you need to make sure some of the URLs are not available to the users of a device. They can be related to social pages, or pages which cause a lot of content to be up/downloaded (example YouTube) or maybe related directly to your competition. You may also want to restrict your employees further and have access only to a few sites (your home site and a few more) from the device. These are some of the Use cases where you may need this feature to be enabled.
- Login to AMGuard console with valid credentials.
- Go to Policy Groups page and select any policy type(Kiosk or Work Managed or Work Profile).
- Navigate to Application Management > PlayStore Apps
- Assumption: Chrome browser is already added to the policy. If not please add Chrome browser to policy.
- Click on “Managed Configuration” button as shown below,
- Notice managed configuration pop-up as below. Give configuration name and proceed to update configuration. In below picture it is named it as “Configurations”
- Scroll down and notice “Block access to a list of URLs” and “Allow access to a list of URLs”
- To Block all domains and subdomains just provide ["*"] as below; that means user will not be able to access any URL on device.
Note – In order to block any specific URLs then follow
URL format for single site - ["https://calendar.google.com"]
URL format for multiple sites -["https://calendar.google.com","https://facebook.com"]
- If you want to give access to certain URLs only, then you will have to block access to all URLs first as mentioned above, and only then mention the URLs under “Allow access to a list of URLs”. As demonstrated below in the picture the Calendar and Facebook sites are whitelisted.
- URL format - ["https://calendar.google.com","https://facebook.com"]
- After updating the URLs, click on “Save” button to save Chrome configurations
- You will be redirected to policy page, now save the policy by clicking on “Save and Continue” to reflect the changes on devices.
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