Blocking Gambling websites advice needed

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bluesnake wrote: »

You may have a chance if he works for a very small company, but for an medium organization to change its firewall rules, and introduce filtering and content management can easily cost £50000. Plus he has to work harder (or steal), do extra hours to get the money to gamble, perhaps making him a better employee, so may not be in their interest.

What stops him buying scratch cards, betting or lottery? Then there are the tools than an circumvent all of these like TOR and VPN and sometimes even proxies.

He has his own company

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jill36_2

Betting on lottery/scratchcards - no he isn't interested. Going into bookies - maybe but will have very small amounts of cash now, hopefully he won't bother. He prefers an insular way of gambling ie using the computer.

bod1467

How about rigging a spring-loaded boxing glove under the computer desk ... whenever a gambling site is loaded if triggers the glove into his nether regions?

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Does he have a smartphone? It may prove hard to bloc k gambling apps

Personally I'd be using opendns, then alter the dns details used on your home router

jill36_2

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Does he have a smartphone? It may prove hard to bloc k gambling apps

Personally I'd be using opendns, then alter the dns details used on your home router

sorry ringo - not a clue what all that means - ?

jill36_2

bod1467 wrote: »

How about rigging a spring-loaded boxing glove under the computer desk ... whenever a gambling site is loaded if triggers the glove into his nether regions?

Brilliant ...........if only!

bod1467

OpenDNS is an option, but sooo easy to bypass.

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jill36 wrote: »

sorry ringo - not a clue what all that means - ?

Does he have a mobile phone like an iPhone? If so, whatever you do at home may be in vain as you can gamble on your phone

spannerzone

Some suggest using Gamblock- it's an exteme measure as you cannot uninstall it off the PC, ever! (you have to reinstall Windows)

It's a severe gambling blocking program that is installed on each PC and blocks pretty much anything from UK lotto to hardcore gamble sites.

Once installed it does prevent access on that PC but if he has tablet, iphone, smartphone then it won't help.

OpenDNS is another option
http://www.opendns.com/home-solutions/parental-controls/ but can be overcome.

The only solution is to cure the habit (I'm in Brighton and a family member attended 'Breakeven' which helped immensely - having been there I understand the destruction and so on.

Best of luck.

paddyrg

The problem with blocking sites is that it is whack-a-mole, those sites have invested millions in their systems and technology to target problem gamblers, so it is never possible to block then completely, even if that mend phone apps etc. Try asking the mobile network to implement the under 18 content block may help, but it really starts and ends with your husband and his getting clean as there will always be ways around blocks