LeechBlock for just the browser? And yeah AppArmor for stopping programs from launching.
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Thanks for LeechBlock as I see it's FOSS https://github.com/proginosko/LeechBlockNG
and I will try AppArmor.
I do not know any program like that but what worked for me was creating another user account that had no access to lots of stuff.
Yeah that's idea but it will also lose some of the setup that I have right now. I wonder how hard it would he to tell the kernel not to spawn anything during session time.
With apparmor, you could enable and disable profiles that could restrict access to files and paths by name.
For network traffic, it's possible to use dnsmasq to blacklist or whitelist some domains.
Looks like malware to me
Behaves as such but I don't think so.
If it behaves as malware it's malware in my book. Same reason I consider things like kernel level anti-cheat to be malware.
How the same thing can be done without being seen as a malware?
forbidding some programs from starting
You can write script for this
Examples?