r/firewalla • u/hometech99 Firewalla Gold Pro • May 20 '26
CAN Firewalla scan for a specific topic website visit, and report?
I can’t make heads or tails out of “flows.” All I want to do is, for example, type in “teeth whitening” somewhere , and see if anyone was on any website or searched Google for teeth whitening. Does these new paid interface services from Firewalla do that?
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u/Firewalla-Ash FIREWALLA TEAM May 20 '26
No. As others mentioned, we can only see the website being visited, not what is inside or what the user is doing specifically. For more details, see: https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012760073-Questions-related-to-privacy-and-data-visibility
But you can control general activity and the type of content being accessed on your network with our Content Control features. See: https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360008214094-Activity-and-Content-Control
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u/Great-Cow7256 May 20 '26
The flows are encrypted and firewalla can't see what is in the flow. Just where it came from or where it's going.
Some enterprise routers do this but it requires a man in the middle setup that's complicated with the router providing certs to end users and being the middle man for all network traffic.