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title: Geoblocking
slug: legacy/geoblocking
description: Discover how FlashStart's DNS filtering provides customizable geoblocking protection for effective internet traffic management. With options for macrocategory and city-specific blocking, users can tailor their content access to prevent unwanted traffic.
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createdAt: 2024-01-12T09:06:15.205Z
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Through Geoblocking protection it is possible to block, through certain modes, what is all Internet traffic from specific areas of the world. The flexibility of platform's DNS filtering allows the user various and customized solutions with features that characterize filtering making it convenient and practical.

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## Macrocategory Customization 

The filter has macro-zones with cities and areas more specifically inside.

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The *entire macrocategory* can be blocked from allowing any of the cities below to pass through the filter by clicking on the gray "*Deny*" circle.

## Category Customization 

Ability to extend the group, *individually blocking each city at will*, thus having more freedom with respect to content.

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In case there are individual items within a macro-area that are blocked and others are not, graphically a green half-circle will be displayed under "*Allow*" and a red half-circle under "*Deny*," indicative of a custom category filter.

Ability to extend the group, *individually blocking each city at will*, thus having more freedom with respect to content.



**Other ways to ask**:

- Geolocation-based protection.
- Geographic Restriction by Security.