If you struggle with pornography or want filtering and accountability software, I recommend the renowned Covenant Eyes or X3Watch. If you are a parent looking for a tool to filter, customize, and track your child's technology, I highly recommend Qustodio free for a single device. It uses a VPN so it works with every app. OpenDNS gives detailed setup instructions for most routers.
Lock Safe Search Google images can be a death trap. Safe Search ignores any keywords that are porn-specific and won't show any image tagged as adult content. You can lock SafeSearch on your Google accounts and Yahoo. Google offers Family Link , an excellent parental control system for all your android devices.
If you're more advanced you can lock Safe Search on your home router here or here. To filter mobile data on Android, setup Family Link , contact your mobile carrier or sign up for an accountability service like Covenant Eyes or Qustodio. You choose to use a specific DNS set that filters all internet traffic. It's perfect for keeping track of the conversations your kids are having, and with who.
It not only monitors the obvious trigger words, but also has an AI-powered learning system that detects upcoming threats and topics that kids shouldn't be exposed to.
It also monitors behavior patterns, to prevent your kids from slipping too deep down rabbit holes, which is a brilliant feature in the current social media climate. There are loads of other features like alerts, weekly reports, and the ability to prevent certain new apps from being downloaded to phones. The downsides are that it is expensive, and Bark isn't the best at deciding what's important and what isn't, so you'll find yourself with a lot of alerts to check through.
For Mac computers we highly recommend ContentBarrier by Intego. This internet filtering software is specifically designed for Mac computers and includes preset filter categories that make it easier to block harmful content.
ContentBarrier X9 also has time controls so you can ensure your kids are focused on homework, chores or bedtime instead of playing online.
You can create separate accounts for each of your children with one program and set different filters for each depending on their age and maturity. We are parents and know the importance of protecting children from online misinformation, dangerous content, cyberbullies, and too much screen time.
Over the last 15 years we have tested and reviewed parental control software that offer great tools that lets parents to know what their kids are up to online. As part of our research, we subscribe to news outlets and security bloggers that focus on internet security, online privacy and parental control, so we stay on top of the dangers lurking online and changes in the industry.
We are interested in how well the tools of these programs help parents keep children safe online, and we enjoy the opportunity to thoroughly test these programs so we can give you good — and safe — internet filter options.
When we tested internet filter software, we looked at exactly what each program blocked. This included the number of filter categories, if websites slipped through the cracks and if the program included a blacklist where we could add specific site URLs to block.
Other programs have tools, such as screenshots and social media blocking, that can be used for similar purposes, but these require you to be more proactive for it to be effective. The best programs, including Qustodio, record and report in-depth information about how long your children are on specific websites, both sides of chat messages and words they search for in search engines.
You can also see if your kids attempted to go to a blocked site and which activated filter category restricted their access to it. Some programs take screenshots while your child is online so you physically see what they saw during their computer time.
Notification is just as important as reading activity reports. We appreciated when a program, such as McAfee , sent us a text message as soon as our children attempted to access a restricted site. Being notified quickly is important for stepping in and stopping your children from getting into a dangerous situation. Nicole writes for multiple Future Publishing brands covering topics from antivirus to kitchen appliances to SAS. She has over 15 years of research and writing experience, including eight years of testing and reviewing consumer products.
In her spare time, Nicole serves as a member of several school councils and volunteers for a local arts board. Kurupira WebFilter Kurupira WebFilter is one of the free anti porn software that comes with a good amount of features which makes it very configurable. Other than just blocking bad websites and also applications, it can also block instant messengers such as Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger and also social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and etc.
It can also automatically take screenshots in interval and set time limits. If you go to the Settings, you can find email notification options where you can be notified when a website or application has been blocked. One of the feature that we really liked is the application exception where an application added to the list will be ignored by Kurupira WebFilter. Normally an anti pornography software only has an on or off switch where you either turn it on, or completely off.
You can probably use a portable version of Firefox so it does not intervene with the settings. Kurupira WebFilter does have some tampering system where the filtering system will still continue to function even after terminated the process, password protection and enabling the stealth mode to hide the tray icon. The only drawback is the software can be easily uninstalled without any restriction which makes it very easy to bypass.
Download Kurupira WebFilter. After installing the program, there is no settings to configure the program and you can only enable or disable the filtering by right clicking on the tray icon at the notification area. You are required to set a master password during installation and it is required if you want to disable or uninstall the program.
Terminating the process will still continue to block bad websites. Download netCheckPost. The free edition of WebPatrol is like the smaller brother of the PRO version that comes only with website and application filtering and time controls. Unlike most of the anti porn software, WebPatrol does not show the user that they are accessing a blocked website and simply shows a white blank web page.
There are 7 banned categories and also custom banned or allowed websites. Application filtering allows you to prohibit running of web browser or chat programs and even custom list. It also supports custom hotkeys to launch the user interface or from the RUN window. WebPatrol would be perfect if the filtering still works even after terminating the cprotect. Download WebPatrol. Drainware PC is a free and open source parental control software that is hosted on SourceForge.
It acts as a local proxy server where the web browsers are automatically configured to route the connections to a localhost proxy address and the proxy options are disabled from being changed or tampered. You can block websites based from a list of categories, apply black and white list, and also control the file extensions that you want to block. The filtering will only work if the web browser is set to use the localhost proxy and major web browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Chrome works fine except for Opera.
You should also refrain from using Drainware PC is your computer gets the Internet connection from a proxy server because the software overwrites the connection settings. Out all 10 anti porn software, Drainware installation file is the largest at nearly 70MB in size.
Download Drainware Parental Control.
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