Sunday 24 February 2019

How-to: Block Google Translate from translating web pages

While Google Translate is a fantastic education tool it can also be used a proxy to circumnavigate web filtering policies.

I see this happen regularly in schools where web categories such as Pornography are blocked by the FortiGate web filter, but students will use Google Translate to get past this and view inappropriate web pages (albeit in a different language).

This post will go through how you can create a custom application signature to allow Google Translate to be used to translate words, but not used to translate/proxy web pages.