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I think what you're looking for is known as kiosk software. Basically a locked down browser that has limited or zero user interaction possible.
Or by deliberately breaking DNS on that host. Add the entries you want to allow to /etc/hosts and not supply any upstream DNS servers. (Change of needing maintenance if those sites change IP)
Not directly a ready to use software. But maybe you could use a combination of dnsmasq and cronjobs.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dnsmasq https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cron
You could load two different configs based on time. One to forward everything except xyz to localhost and one to forward everything.
Most/all the main web browsers in use support kiosk mode, you'll just need to search around for how to do it. This should get you going for Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-enterprise-kiosk-mode
Am not too sure how to get out of kiosk mode afterwards, maybe test it when you don't have anything else running just in case.
EDIT: If you need to run kiosk mode for a specific amount of time as you say, you'll probably need to also run a scheduled cronjob or similar to maybe kill the web browser at a specific time. I've seen kiosk mode for a few web browsers but they don't usually have an option to set them for a specific amount of time.