One idea would be to configure your web browser to use a proxy server that was a parental control router.
http://www.blocksi.net/parental-control.php Then you could use the analytics in the router software to study your own behavior (instead of a child’s). There may be cloud-based services for this too. For example, many organizations block prohibited content of various sorts for their employees or patrons, and would typically need to make use of a global database to do it. They wouldn’t maintain the blacklist themselves, but would have some service provider making inventories of various bad stuff. Anyway, censorship tools for kids or grown-ups will likely have the ability to measure bandwidth as a side feature. From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2016 11:34 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Monitoring Data Usage Hi, Sarbajit, Thanks for the tip. I studied on it for a bit and think it isn’t designed to do what I most need to have done. It would tell me if my problem is, say, HP updates, or Firefox websites. But, unless I am wrong, it won’t tell me which of the websites I am contacting is doing the dirty. For instance, I spend a lot of time looking at animated radar displays? They are only ten frames long, and don’t seem very “verbose”, how can I tell for sure.. Perhaps by logging my activities by hand and then using the time logging feature of Neworx I might figure it out. Ideally, the program I am looking for would give me the amount of data used up for each website contacted. Given the rarity of the problem, the software probably doesn’t exist. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. I will explore it more closely tomorrow. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sarbajit Roy Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2016 10:35 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Monitoring Data Usage Try Networx https://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/manual/ On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Nick Thompson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, You will recall that when I am in Massachusetts, I get all of my internet over a Verizon hotspot. It a bit like eating lunch with a shark. Every once in while you find out that you’re missing part of your arm. So, I have been looking around on the web for an app which will tell me which one of my activities … podcasts, websites, upgrades, updates, etc. … is using up data. Now, I figure, being pros, most of you, you all live in places that have unmetered broad band. So I don’t expect many of you to share my problem. But perhaps one of you has? There are several apps that seem perhaps to be relevant. One is “Glasswire”. Is anybody familiar with it? I hope you are all summering well. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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