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status-webmon [2023/10/01 18:29] – -grammar hogwild | status-webmon [2023/10/19 00:05] – [Recent Web Searches] -explain using dnsmasq log-queries option as substitute hogwild | ||
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This can be useful, if you have concerns about users' Web browsing patterns. Parents often use this to monitor/ | This can be useful, if you have concerns about users' Web browsing patterns. Parents often use this to monitor/ | ||
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===== Recently Visited Websites ===== | ===== Recently Visited Websites ===== | ||
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Once Web Monitoring is enabled, it displays the Recently Visited Web Sites table. | Once Web Monitoring is enabled, it displays the Recently Visited Web Sites table. | ||
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- | \\ | + | \\ You may not recognize some domains in the table. That's because they are for data harvesting, displaying ads, program updating, caching content and other purposes that users are generally not made aware of. |
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+ | Note that if you use a VPN, Web Monitor will function properly, since domains you enter will be encrypted when travelling through the VPN tunnel. If you use routing policy and allow the web browser to bypass the VPN, domains you enter should be listed in the table. | ||
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+ | To disable Web Usage, click on >> Web Monitor Configuration | ||
- | You may not recognize some domains that appear in the table. That's because they are for data harvesting, displaying ads, program updating, caching content and other purposes that users are generally not made aware of.\\ | ||
===== Recent Web Searches ===== | ===== Recent Web Searches ===== | ||
- | Below Recently Visited Websites, a table of **Recent Web Searches** | + | Generally speaking, this function is mostly obsolete. It relied on web links being unencrypted to gather the data it needed. Now that most web connections are (SSL/TLS) encrypted, it cannot gather the data needed to present any results. It will therefore remain empty unless |
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+ | As a substitute, dnsmasq supports the // | ||
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