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How to block Facebook, Twitter, Youtube on Mikrotik

In case you want to block access to Facebook, Twitter, Youtube or other websites, it is easy to do this job on Mikrotik RouterOS. You can use either web proxy or directly from firewall rule to block websites.

According to Mikrotik Wiki, you can block users from accessing websites using content option in Mikrotik Firewall rule. One rule per content you want to block. So if you want to block, for example, Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter, you have to create rule for each content.

How to block Facebook using Mikrotik

In this article I want to show on how to block Facebook using Mikrotik in three steps. We will use Web Proxy feature included in Mikrotik. We assume the LAN (Local Area Network) address is 192.168.56.0/24 and the IP address of 'ether1' which facing to the LAN is 192.168.56.254.