online filter recommendation please

[mamacoffee]

hi

ds is 3yo, i'm pretty meticulous about not leaving him wihtout a computer but now think i should be able to for very short periods (i also limit screen time very carefully but am thinking for when he does have screen time).

so please can you recommend a good filter thingy, ideally one that i can use on a profile set up just for him but which wont be active on other profiles on the same computer (ie my profile which is password protected so he can't access it)

thanks!

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I can't give a full guarantee (sorry) but internet explorer's built-in filter that you can amend is quite good, but firefox's built-in is pretty pointless - you can apparently make it more secure by purchasing the premium package but I haven't found it very good. I am assuming by your post that you have different user profiles on your computer, so could make one for your DS? The changes that you make to his browser security shouldn't affect yours.

Sorry I'm not very helpful but I've been using this approach recently and it has worked for us, but admittedly not for restricting child access.

I can't give a full guarantee (sorry) but internet explorer's built-in filter that you can amend is quite good, but firefox's built-in is pretty pointless - you can apparently make it more secure by purchasing the premium package but I haven't found it very good. I am assuming by your post that you have different user profiles on your computer, so could make one for your DS? The changes that you make to his browser security shouldn't affect yours.

Sorry I'm not very helpful but I've been using this approach recently and it has worked for us, but admittedly not for restricting child access.

Thank you for replying. I find IEs one a bit irritating because it wanted authorisation for every single page I want something where I can say eg all of sesame street is Ok, anbut maybe set it so some parts of bbc are ok but not all, and where I can block YouTube. Does such a thing exist? ? Maybe I'm asking too much but it would seem incredibly useful if it worked like this!

On our IE we have a keyword alert, eg if the page says 'sex', 'xxx', 'porn' etc then authorisation is needed to access it, you can decide what words you want on there, and also the type of content (eg pages containing mature but non-offensive content, containing sexual content, etc). You can also add websites as exceptions (to be banned or okay'd). I think that if you did this with IE in a separate computer profile for your DS, it would only affect IE on his profile, as we have separate elements to IE depending on whose profile it is accessed.

So basically you could have 'full fat' IE on your profile, and very restricted on his. Obviously you can supervise him but then you could also check his history to make sure it's all okay and working.

That's brilliant than you! Sounds like I can get it to do what I want, I just need to ssit down n play around with the settings. Thank you!

*Thank you

I hope it works! It took me a while sitting down with it and going through some online help pages, but I got there in the end!

hi there

thanks so much for your recommendation! ive done it now, ive set it at a ridiculously high level of security at the moment until i find out about more good websites for him, at the moment the best ive found that is educational and fun is sesamestreet. so right now ive set it so that he can only access websites that i allow, and i allowed sesamestreet only for now, but he can go into all sections of that website. but he can't go on anything else. and i could also block google chrome which is the browser i prefer to use, because obviously being 'windows' family safety the internet settings only work on IE, so he can go on IE but not google chrome. and all the settings are for his profile only but other profiles are ok.

so all in all i think its pretty good! thank you so much again!!!