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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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            <img src="{{ site.img_url }}page-specific/portmaster/monitor-network-activity.png" alt="">
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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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            Block Domains
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            Many programs connect to the Internet without your knowledge. When you
            find unwanted connections, you can now simply block them.
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              Auto-Block via Selected Filter Lists
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            <p class="showcase-one-right-desc">
              Automatically block ads, trackers and malware hosts via trusted domain-lists,
              which are also used by Ad-Blockers, etc. Easily change the defaults to fit
              your needs.
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        <img src="{{ site.img_url }}page-specific/portmaster/enforce-dns-over-tls.png" alt="">
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            Enforce Secure DNS
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          <p class="showcase-one-right-desc">
            Even with invasive connections gone, you do not want to share your dns requests
            out in the open. With the Portmaster, you can easily re-route all your dns
            queries to a DNS-over-TLS provider of your choice.
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              Portmaster News
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          <p class="showcase-two-top-desc" style="max-width: 430px;">
              Discover everything that is happing on your computer. Expose every connection your applications make.
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                  {% assign all_publications = site.publications | 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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        <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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          <p class="showcase-one-right-desc">
            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.docs_url }}">Checkout the docs</a>
            <a class="btn-tertiary hover-opacity-out" href="{{ site.github_url }}/portmaster"><i class="icon-github text-md mr-2"></i>Inspect source code</a>
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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">
              Make your own rules. Completely cut off applications from the
              Internet. Or block all p2p connections except for certain apps.
              Or never connect to specific countries. The Portmaster has you
              covered.
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                  Open Source & Free
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              <p class="card-package-top-desc" style="max-width: 480px;">The free version is very powerful tool, but by buying a package you support the devlopment of the portmaster.</p>
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                  {% include download_button.html unique_id="2" %}
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