For personal reasons, I need to ensure that I can sometime block Anki from accessing the internet. In the past, I had a windows firewall rule to block connections for anki.exe which worked on a prior PC The exact exe is the anki.exe in the appdata>local>programs>anki>anki.exe folder however, now …

edit: resolved. I was able to block by adding both an inbound and outbound connection. previously only outbound was necessary. leaving this for posterity. PS: it is user unfriendly to make the app automatically close if the pc clock does not match. I do it on purpose sometimes and I literally can’t…

This may just be a Windows bug, when the clocks do not match, I can press X (upper right corner) on the dialog to close it and then I can operate Anki without closing it. (same way I was able to skip uninstalling when updating Anki.)

Cannot Block Anki in Windows Firewall?

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Danika_Dakika January 21, 2025, 1:48am 4

See “Why doesn’t Anki let me ignore the error?”.

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Cannot Block Anki in Windows Firewall?

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