Third Party firewall tools can restrict Windows 10 from making calls to your home network.
Third Party firewall tools can restrict Windows 10 from making calls to your home network.
You're experiencing issues where Comodo FireWill is stripping whitelist entries, and you're wondering if another third-party firewall can prevent Windows 10 from making unauthorized connections.
It likely relies on the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP), an internal API. In theory, Windows can bypass it because ultimately it's the OS that enforces it. Third-party tools probably just wrap a built-in firewall in a user interface. If you're not confident in them, consider a dedicated firewall on a separate device acting as a router. Using a Pi-Hole could also work well by blocking specific domains from DNS resolution, especially if they don't use hard-coded IP addresses.