We’ve been trying to control unauthorized apps in our environment. Blocklisting helped a bit, but people are still using personal cloud storage through browsers. How are you all dealing with that?
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4 days ago
Apr 09, 2026
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Yeah, we hit the same issue. Blocking the app only goes so far—people just open it in a browser. We started using URL filtering to block those sites, and it actually cut down a lot of that usage.
Just need to be careful though, we blocked a bit too much at first and it started affecting legit work.
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4 days ago
Apr 09, 2026
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Same here, managing the blocklist became a bit of a headache after a while. Every other day someone needed an exception 😅
We ended up keeping the important stuff open and blocking the rest. Also, on iOS supervised devices, turning off private browsing and not letting users clear history helped a lot with visibility.
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4 days ago
Apr 09, 2026
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Ah okay, makes sense. What about different browsers though? We’re seeing different behaviour across Chrome, Edge, Safari… especially on Windows.
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4 days ago
Apr 09, 2026
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Yeah, that’s normal. On Windows it really depends on the browser. We just picked a few approved ones and enforced policies there, otherwise people just switch browsers and bypass it.
For us, things only really worked properly when we used both, blocklisting apps + web filtering. One without the other just leaves gaps.
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