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Disabling web filtering on personal MacBook after company acquisition

I retired from a company almost 3 years ago and purchased the MacBook they provided to me. Recently, after upgrading to Sequoia, I am getting blocked from visiting sites that are not considered appropriate for work-related visits. The company logo comes up and tells me I am blocked. I am trying to contact their IT support to get this addressed but the company has since been purchased and I am getting nowhere. The point is that the mac is mine and no longer be under corporate control.  

 

I have superuser privileges and would like to eliminate the web filtering mechanism. Can you offer any suggestions as to how I might do this?  

 


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Posted on Jan 16, 2025 10:41 AM

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Posted on Jan 16, 2025 10:49 AM

First, check your web browser and see if there are any extension/add-ons present. If so, try to remove them. Also go to the Network settings and see if there's a proxy set, and if so see if you can remove that.


If the system still has management software on it, as may be the case, then you may not be able to those those settings or otherwise remove that block yourself, and in most cases only the company who installed that software can remove it. But you can go to:


System Preferences -> Profiles


or


System Settings -> General -> Device Management


and if a management profile is listed, see if you can remove it. If not, then you may be stuck unless the company IT group won't or can't help.


Good luck.

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Jan 16, 2025 10:49 AM in response to sleepyhollow93

First, check your web browser and see if there are any extension/add-ons present. If so, try to remove them. Also go to the Network settings and see if there's a proxy set, and if so see if you can remove that.


If the system still has management software on it, as may be the case, then you may not be able to those those settings or otherwise remove that block yourself, and in most cases only the company who installed that software can remove it. But you can go to:


System Preferences -> Profiles


or


System Settings -> General -> Device Management


and if a management profile is listed, see if you can remove it. If not, then you may be stuck unless the company IT group won't or can't help.


Good luck.

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Jan 16, 2025 11:36 AM in response to varjak paw

Thank you for your response. You led me in the right direction. Under systems settings/general there is Login Items and Extensions. Within that I found something called DNSFilter. I was able to disable that using sysadmin privileges and that did the trick.


I was pretty confident it would be something relatively easy, and likely right under my nose so to speak. Good find in that I see some other items that probably should be disabled as well.


Thanks again for pointing me in a useful direction.

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