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Manage your filters

Protego lets you pause, organize, and back up your filters without deleting any of them.

What you want to filter changes over time. Protego lets you pause everything for a while, switch off one filter without deleting it, and keep your lists tidy with labels and groups. When your lists are right, back them up or share them with a friend.

Pause all filtering at once

Use the Filtering menu at the top of the Filter tab, or in the Protego extension in Safari, to pause every filter for 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 1 hour, or 3 hours. Filtering turns back on when the pause ends. Choose Off to stop filtering until you turn it back on. Both work per device. Browsing Limits and the Transform settings keep working.

The Filtering menu at the top of Protego’s Filter tab, set to On.

A group gathers related keywords under one name, with a switch of its own. Turn the group off and none of its keywords filter. Turn it back on and they filter again.

Protego’s Keywords list with a Spoilers group of three keywords below the single keywords. The Spoilers keyword group in Protego, with its own Enabled switch.

Back up or share your filter lists

In List Management, under Advanced on the Filter tab, Export Lists saves the lists you pick to one file. Keep it as a backup, or send it to a friend. Import Lists adds a file’s filters to yours or replaces the lists you pick.

Protego’s List Management screen with Import Lists and Export Lists. Protego’s Export Lists sheet with Keywords and Communities selected.

How to turn these on

  1. Open Protego and go to the Filter tab. Use the Filtering menu at the top to turn filtering on, pause it, or turn it off. The same menu is in the Protego extension in Safari.
  2. Tap a list, then tap an entry to switch it off or change it.
  3. To back up or share your lists, scroll to Advanced on the Filter tab and tap List Management.

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