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Blocking my Mother-in-law from reading our blog
I have discovered that my mother-in-law has been reading a blog that I started so I could openly vent about the ups and downs of being a young mom and a military spouse without any of my family members giving me crap. My mother-in-law and I don't get along (that is putting it VERY mildly), and after much debate I allowed her access to a private family blog strictly for our families. Unfortunately, my MIL figured out that you can get to my other blog from my profile on our private blog. How do I know she's been reading it, because of a feedjit on my blog, and she just admitted to it in an email. Why should I care? Well, because my husband has long decided that his mother is on a need to know basis. Now she is able to get a better glimpse into our lives, that honestly we really don't want her to see. I know this sounds odd, that we are more comfortable with strangers knowing our business over flesh and blood...but really she is crazy, and doesn't need to know anything.
Basically, how can I block her from seeing an open blog?!
Basically, how can I block her from seeing an open blog?!
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Permalink Reply by Harley Jane on -
I don't think you can.... :( I'm sorry this happened to you. How nosy of her!
Safest thing to do would be to make it private and individually invite your readers. -
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Permalink Reply by Lacey Bean on -
Yeah I think you'd have to make your blog invitation only... but the downside of that is that she is clearly goin to ask why!
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Permalink Reply by Jamie on -
You can't block one person in particular as far as I know. I'm assuming you using Blogger since you mentioned a profile. You can make your blog private and all readers will have to enter a password to access it.
Or you can move your blog to another platform like wordpress and not link to it anywhere? -
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Permalink Reply by cooper on -
If you are on the web, unlessyou are totally private, most anyone can get a look at your life if you choose to post about it. There have been a lot of these posts lately so I think people have some sort of false sense of security about blogs.
You can simply privatize your blog, that is the only sure way is to make the blog totally private or password protected. Blocking ip's does very little good if someone wants to read your blog, they will merely do it from somewhere else.
The other option if you don't want it to be completely private is to start another blog and don't link it to anything else, but if she is reading someone else and they link to it it's always possible she will find it anyway. -
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Permalink Reply by Eighmey on -
Thanks for replying. We figured it was a lost cause, but we wanted to see if there was at least some shot at blocking her. I have already removed my profile, hoping that maybe that will be a deterrent. Either way you are all right, I took this whole blogging thing for granted thinking no one in our immediately families was into reading stuff online enough to find me....hahahah, NOT!
Thanks again. -
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Permalink Reply by Dan on -
If you host it yourself and she has a fixed IP address, you could block access to the IP address in the .htaccess file.
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Permalink Reply by Nick Tabick on -
The problem with this is that it's too easy to hide where you're coming from with a proxy. And, unlike the old days where you actually had to know how to set things up, now all you have to do is look for 'free proxy' on your search engine of choice or fire up a copy of Tor or I2P.
Regarding the original topic at hand: Chances are, once it's found, you're going to have issues keeping her out of your business without a lot of questions unless you move things somewhere else and take the appropriate steps to make sure things don't slip out. Part of me thinks this entire situation is going to turn into a game of cat and mouse, but whether you want to play such a game is going to have to be something you take into consideration for yourself. -
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