Parental Control Options

GuruJockStrap · 30 Aug 2023 at 15:59

Been with BT for a number of years and found their Parental Controls quite good (so selecting categories of websites to block like adult, gambling, etc). Found they worked quite well.

I thought that all ISP's had to provide this type of control by default so was quite surprised that my current ISP doesn't.

I know that controls could be easily bypassed if individual connected to another network (and no control software in place on the device) or they simply used a VPN but I'm keen to have something in place.

What would people recommend as a good solution? I have a Raspberry Pi that I acquired sometime ago as I fancied mucking around with it but then proceeded to keep it in my drawer. Is there a Raspberry Pi solution available?

rah^ · 30 Aug 2023 at 19:12

could look at Adguard as a setup, might take abit of tweaking but does have some in built blocks as default that are easy to turn on / off

The1nonly1 · 30 Aug 2023 at 19:16

You could use the Pi with pi-hole installed. It's mainly ad blocking at DNS level but I'm sure I've seen block lists for 18+ sites. Another alternative is to use cloudflare DNS on your router, specifically DNS 1.1.1.3 and 1.0.0.3 - https://one.one.one.one/family/

Glanza · 30 Aug 2023 at 19:57

Set your DNS to https://cleanbrowsing.org/filters/

Flux85 · 30 Aug 2023 at 20:45

NextDNS easily blocks and cheap

Caged · 31 Aug 2023 at 15:49

Cloudflare operate a filtered version of their DNS

Set up | Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 docs

By default, the DNS server ↗ your devices use is provided by your Internet service provider (ISP). Some ISPs and network equipment providers partner with Cloudflare to add safer browsing to their offerings.

developers.cloudflare.com

Flux85 · 31 Aug 2023 at 18:20

Caged said:
Cloudflare operate a filtered version of their DNS

Set up | Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 docs

By default, the DNS server ↗ your devices use is provided by your Internet service provider (ISP). Some ISPs and network equipment providers partner with Cloudflare to add safer browsing to their offerings.

developers.cloudflare.com

CloudFlare rarely block anything in comparison to others because they are protecting the interest of its customers not users. (Nameservers, WAP, etc…)

Caged · 31 Aug 2023 at 18:42

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Cloudflare sell Gateway as a commercial product to handle content filtering to corporate customers, the 1.1.1.1 for families service uses the same database.