Parental Controls

[Phil G]

+1 for opendns.com.

It blocks domains that are known to be in specific categories, and you
select which categories to block.  You can also block individual domains.
When my kids were young, I blocked categories like gambling, guns, obscene,
p2p, etc.  I also blocked the entire .ru tld.

That works until you give your kids a smartphone :)

These tools aren't perfect but at least it conveys to the kids that there
is a line they shouldn't cross.


On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 3:48 PM, wcj9996 at frontier.com <wcj9996 at frontier.com>
wrote:

> Tony:
>
> My Linksys EA3500 router has 'Parental Controls' built in.  I have never
> used it, but it might be worth investigating.  Other routers may also have
> some PC function.
>
>   walt
>
> On 06/27/2015 08:38 PM, agents4jesus at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A while ago, I tried fiddling with Parental Controls for Ubuntu. As
>> there are no native/preinstalled programs for that task, I
>> looked online. DansGuardian came up in my search (you may be familiar
>> with it), so I installed it and had it working, and it did it’s
>> job fairly well.
>>
>> Until we found out that it didn’t block https.
>>
>> The reason is simple: https is secure and encrypted. Thus, once the
>> computer has made a https request and is connected to the https server,
>> the rest of the computer (so to speak) can’t mess with it, including
>> DansGuardian. This is the way Ubuntu is set up, I think. Correct me if
>> I’m wrong.
>>
>> I find this hard to believe. Windows and Mac have web filtering programs
>> that are able to block /any/ website, and Android (with Linux and it’s
>> core) can use NetNanny that can block https as well.
>>
>> Is there a way to fix this? A terminal command, or another piece of
>> software entirely?
>>
>> And for Parental Controls in general, do any of you have any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks a ton, everyone,
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>>
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