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I'm travelling around and use lot's of different Wifi connections. When using a general wifi connection everything is allowed.

There is only 1 connection (a wifi hotspot connection to my mobile phone which is connected to the mobile provider) which I would block everything except chrome browsing.

The reason for this is that I have to pay for the mobile connection from my phone to the provider. So i really need to minimize the use of data.

How to do this? I tried to add rules in windows firewall but cannot add a new profile and/or a new group. Also cannot select the wifi connection name. Is there a property which I can use to apply the rule?

If not, is there another app who can easily do this?

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Okay so my first answer was not exactly helping so I tried googling it and it turns out that Windows Firewall can't filter like that, you would have to download some kind of firewall control, see this Super User thread:

How can I configure the Windows 7 firewall to prompt me on outbound traffic?

I also found out that if you don't want to download any software, you could easily limit your PC's data usage while tethering, there is a lot of ways to do this so I'm going to link the websites so you can read it for yourself.

Howtogeek - How to Make Your Computer’s Browser Use Less Data When Tethering

PCWorld - How to limit your PC's data usage while tethering

And finally, how to set a wifi connection to metered in Windows 10:

Tenforums - Set Wireless Network as Metered or Non-Metered Connection in Windows 10

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