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title: Safing Portmaster - Features
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Explore All Portmaster Features
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With Portmaster's great defaults your privacy improves without any effort. And if you want to configure and control everything down to the last detail - Portmaster has you covered too!
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Monitor All Network Activity
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Discover everything that is happening on your computer. Expose every
connection your applications make and detect evil ones. Finally get
the power to act accordingly.
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Auto-Block Trackers & Malware
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Block ads, trackers and malware hosts system-wide. Portmaster does this by default and uses trusted filter lists,
which are also used by Ad-Blockers, etc. Easily change the defaults to fit
your needs.
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Secure Your DNS by Default
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Even with invasive connections gone, you do not want to share your DNS requests
out in the open. With Portmaster, all your DNS queries are automatically secured and re-routed to a DNS-over-TLS provider of your choice.
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<img src="{{ site.img_url }}page-specific/portmaster/explore-the-docs-and-source-code.png" alt="">
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Explore the Docs and Source Code
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In the age of Mass Surveillance, what good is a service when you cannot see what
it is really doing? We believe in open source. We also document everything
as good as we can.
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<a class="btn-secondary" href="{{ site.wiki_url }}">Checkout the Wiki</a>
<a target="_blank" class="link-primary-external inline-flex" href="{{ site.github_url }}/portmaster"><i class="icon-github text-md mr-2"></i>Inspect source code</a>
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Create Your Own Rules
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<p class="showcase-one-right-desc">
Portmaster has great defaults - but one shoe does not fit all. Customize and configure Portmaster's powerful settings to fit your needs and threat model.
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<img src="{{ site.img_url }}page-specific/portmaster/set-global-and-per-app-configuration.png" alt="">
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Set Global & per‑App Settings
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<p class="showcase-one-right-desc">
Easily cut off applications from the Internet. Or block all p2p connections globally but allow them for certain apps. Or never connect to specific countries. Portmaster has you covered.
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{% include download_container.html %}
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Portmaster News
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<p class="showcase-two-top-desc" style="max-width: 430px;">
Read everything about the latest updates regarding Portmaster and Safing.
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<div class="blogpod-container" style="margin-top: 0;">
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{% assign all_publications = site.publications | where_exp:"item",
"item.hide_from_features != true" | sort: "date" | reverse %}
{% for publication in all_publications limit: 3 %}
{% if publication.category == "blog" %}
{% assign post = publication %}
{% include thumbnail_blog.html pre_header="BLOG" %}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
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