safing-web/features/index.html

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title: Safing Portmaster - Features
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<section class="general-layout">
    <div class="space-y-28">
      <div class="intro-container" id="features">
        <h2 class="intro-container-title">
          Explore All Portmaster Features
        </h2>
        <p class="intro-container-desc">
          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!
        </p>
      </div>
      <div class="showcase-one-container-reverse">
          <div class="showcase-one-left" style="max-width: 1150px;">
            <img src="{{ site.img_url }}page-specific/portmaster/monitor-network-activity.png" alt="">
          </div>
          <div class="showcase-one-right">
              <h2 class="showcase-one-right-title" style="max-width: 350px;" id="monitor-all-network-activity">
                Monitor All Network Activity
              </h2>
              <p class="showcase-one-right-desc">
                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.
              </p>
          </div>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="showcase-one-container">
      <div class="showcase-one-left" style="max-width: 850px;">
        <img src="{{ site.img_url }}page-specific/portmaster/block-trackers-system-wide.png" alt="">
      </div>
      <div class="showcase-one-right">
          <h2 class="showcase-one-right-title" style="max-width: 410px;" id="#auto-block-trackers-and-malware">
            Auto-Block Trackers & Malware
          </h2>
          <p class="showcase-one-right-desc">
            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.
          </p>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="showcase-one-container-reverse">
      <div class="showcase-one-left" style="max-width: 950px;">
        <img src="{{ site.img_url }}page-specific/portmaster/enforce-dns-over-tls.png" alt="">
      </div>
      <div class="showcase-one-right">
        <h2 class="showcase-one-right-title" style="max-width: 350px;" id="secure-dns-by-default">
          Secure Your DNS by Default
        </h2>
        <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 Portmaster, all your DNS queries are automatically secured and re-routed to a DNS-over-TLS provider of your choice.
        </p>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="showcase-one-container">
      <div class="showcase-one-left" style="max-width: 850px;">
        <img src="{{ site.img_url }}page-specific/portmaster/explore-the-docs-and-source-code.png" alt="">
      </div>
      <div class="showcase-one-right">
          <h2 class="showcase-one-right-title" style="max-width: 350px;">
            Explore the Docs and Source Code
          </h2>
          <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.
          </p>
          <div class="col-container w-full text-left md:text-center lg:w-max lg:text-left space-x-4" style="margin-left: 0;">
            <a class="btn-secondary" href="{{ site.docs_url }}">Checkout the docs</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>
          </div>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="showcase-one-container-reverse">
      <div class="showcase-one-left" style="max-width: 850px;">
        <img src="{{ site.img_url }}page-specific/portmaster/manually-allow-ord-block-connections.png" alt="">
      </div>
      <div class="showcase-one-right">
          <h2 class="showcase-one-right-title" style="max-width: 340px;" id="create-your-own-rules">
            Create Your Own Rules
          </h2>
          <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.
          </p>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="showcase-one-container">
        <div class="showcase-one-left" style="max-width: 950px;">
          <img src="{{ site.img_url }}page-specific/portmaster/set-global-and-per-app-configuration.png" alt="">
        </div>
        <div class="showcase-one-right">
            <h2 class="showcase-one-right-title" style="max-width: 350px;" id="set-global-and-app-settings">
              Set Global & per‑App Settings
            </h2>
            <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.
            </p>
        </div>
    </div>
    {% include download_container.html %}
    <div class="showcase-two-container">
      <div class="showcase-two-top-left" style="max-width: 73rem;">
          <h2 class="showcase-two-top-title" style="max-width: 550px;">
              Portmaster News
          </h2>
          <p class="showcase-two-top-desc" style="max-width: 430px;">
              Read everything about the latest updates regarding Portmaster and Safing.
          </p>
      </div>
      <div class="showcase-two-bottom" style="max-width: 100%;">
          <div class="blogpod-container" style="margin-top: 0;">
              <div class="blogpod-container-bottom">
                  {% 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 %}
              </div>
          </div>
      </div>
    </div>
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