<p>I am trying to block Google Reader:</p>

<p>reader.google.com </p>

<p><strong>www.google.com/reader</strong></p>

<p><strong>The hard part is blocking the reader directory</strong></p>

<p>I blocked reader.google.com by changing my /etc/hosts file (this is for a Mac)</p>

<p>Is there any way to block www.google.com/reader without buying software?
Note this is for Safari so Greasemonkey won't work, and Leopard's Parental Controls throttle the CPU when they are turned on.</p>

<p>Also I've tried OpenDNS, which is awesome, but doesn't work for this...</p>

<p>Any thoughts?</p>

<p><strong>Update:</strong> This is for a laptop that travels a lot. So a router or a home proxy server won't work. Firefox would work, but I don't think I can uninstall Safari from a mac.</p>

[{'answer_id': 63151, 'author': 'UnkwnTech', 'author_id': 115, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/115', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>What about at the router level?  My router as an URL blocker built in.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 63179, 'author': 'Andrei Savu', 'author_id': 3885, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3885', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Maybe you can find some sort of http proxy you could install to filter this content and use that when browsing. On Firefox you could easily define a rule for Adblock Plus.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 63180, 'author': 'Adam Davis', 'author_id': 2915, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2915', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Set up a proxy server and block it via that.</p>\n\n<p>-Adam</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 63190, 'author': 'Dan Dyer', 'author_id': 5171, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5171', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You could do this with a proxy (for example <a href="http://proxomitron.info/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Proxomitron</a>).</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 63204, 'author': 'Huppie', 'author_id': 1830, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1830', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>You can use <a href="http://www.privoxy.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Privoxy</a> to filter about anything.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 63242, 'author': 'Omegatron', 'author_id': 7670, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7670', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Another option is to use a free service like www.opendns.com as your dns servers, they allow you to block specific domains or turn on filtering etc. </p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 63585, 'author': 'wolak', 'author_id': 7717, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7717', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I did exactly what you\'re looking for using <a href="http://safariadblock.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Safari AdBlock</a>. Just define a few rules in Safari->Preferences->AdBlock and you should be good to go!</p>\n'}]
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