Stop that porn!

mast3r

mast3r

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Folks, its a "sticky" one for sure!
We have all been there and i am feeling somewhat hypocritical to a point on this, BUT, the internet is a dark place, not like it was 20 or so years ago where we had to wait 10 mins for a JPG to load....
My Son is 12 and despite screentime on his iPad and iPhone seems to keep finding his way onto pornhub or other sites, i have since found 20GB of PH traffic on his xbox in his bedroom.
My wife wants me to put a stop to this for "his safety".
I have a Dream machine pro, 48port USW and 3x U6-Pro and 1x UHD. I cant see any content filtering on there and i dont really want to rip unifi out and chuck my old Meraki back in so was looking at other ways of content controll, any ideas?
Maybe some manual DNS on the DHCP scope to a filtered DNS server?
Cheers folks
 
UniFi is pretty poor for content filtering, in the way I don't even think it can do it.

You can use DNS, ie, Adguard or similar, but if he has control of his devices he can just edit the DNS servers in use.
 
I know kids grow up faster these days but would the average 12 year old know how to do that?

And can't you enable something some stringent on his devices?
 
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Adguard does have a parental control service, but I'm not sure that would stop a VPN from accessing adult material. I'll give it a bash. I mean a check...

If he's also reasonably tech savvy then there's nothing stopping him pointing his own devices at a public DNS. Don't know if Apple/Android can lock that down with some sort of parental controls.
 
doodah said:
I know kids grow up faster these days but would the average 12 year old know how to do that?

And can't you enable something some stringent on his devices?
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Kids these days seem to find ways around even from much younger than 12 - though that said even when I was at school in the 90s we quickly learnt how to circumvent the content filtering from the likes of RM, etc. heh.
 
Put your son on his own VLAN, use the 1.1.1.1 filtered DNS (https://1.1.1.1/family/), block outbound DNS requests to all other destinations (or probably more usefully move your own stuff onto a new VLAN and have the default one filtered), ensure any mobile plan has the adult content bar on.

Assuming there's no open Wi-Fi within range that's about all you can do.
 
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It's not any advice on the technical internet side of things, but just an observation on children growing up and how the net it thhese days.

The thing is, by guarding known easier access material, there's a risk the offender may seek out material in less "reputable" (and I use that word VERY sparingly here) locations on the web, potentially becoming targets. And by needing to learn to bypass, they may learn to hide better too. Then you run the risk of a 12 year old going places you absolutely do not want them to and bring other trouble in.

There was advantages in the old days when kids found material that was compelling to them that their parents stashed away, but was something the parents didn't really need to worry about because it's stuff they were OK with as well.

Not an easy task to navigate mind. So all my sympathies and good luck well wishes for that.
 
This is why I sell Untangle. You can block a group of sites (like adult content) with very fine detail (lingerie retailer sites, swimwear retailer sites, adult toy retailers etc.) or you can block specific websites and you can do that by device. And there may well be a way around it, but I've not found one yet.
 
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