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Why Browsers Quit After a Filter Suspension

Why Gertrude closes browsers after temporary unrestricted internet access ends.

Platform
macOS

For maximum safety. Modern web browsers use http2, allowing them to re-use socket connections to transmit data. In English, what that means is that any websites your child has opened during a filter suspension will remain partially unblocked after the filter suspension expires, as the browser will keep using a connection opened during the suspension. To prevent this, we terminate all browsers 60 seconds after a suspension expires.