Block Sites

Block Sites is a lightweight Windows application designed specifically for helping you block website addresses using straightforward actions.

Portable running mode

You can run the utility on your system by simply opening the EXE file. Uninstalling the program can be done by deleting the files that you have grabbed from the Internet.
It doesn’t store entries in your Windows registry and write configuration data in your computer, so you can run it without administrative privileges. Copying it on a USB flash drive is also possible.

Simplistic looks

Block Sites delivers a plain GUI that embeds only a few configuration settings in the main window. It doesn’t offer support for a help manual, but you do not need one to understand how it works, as its features are highly intuitive.

Blocking capabilities

The application gives you the freedom to build up a list with the websites that you want to restrict access to. You may simply paste URLs from the clipboard in order to generate the list.
What’s more, Block Sites comes with support for a preset list with common websites that you can block. When you are done with specifying the pages you can activate the blocking mode.

Where it falls short

On the downside, the tool does not let you create a whitelist with URLs that are allowed to be opened, restrict access to websites based on user-defined keywords, play sound, popup and email notifications when the banned URLs are accessed, set up a master password, and impose daily time limits, just to name some suggestions.

Bottom line

Block Sites is still in kindergarten and has a lot to learn from other powerful web blockers from its category, such as Family Cyber Alert and HT Parental Controls. During our tests on Windows 8.1 we have experienced several errors.