[zerosix]

Any suggestions FReepers?

[rhubarbk]

I’m open to any suggestion any Freeper has to offer.

[Qiviut]

Some articles with ideas:

https://www.labnol.org/internet/block-adult-websites-on-computer/13988/

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-block-any-website-on-your-computer-phone-or-network-588357

Family Shield
https://signup.opendns.com/familyshield/

[Ciaphas Cain]

Are you logged in?

[PAR35]

K9 used to be the go-to program for protecting children. Been a while since I’ve looked, and there may be something better now.

Same for Covenant Eyes for accountability software.

[Celerity]

In most routers you can establish a black list. I know the list goes on and on but it’s a start.

if your kids are browsing to adult sites, they also know how to go around it. Proxies, i-frames and VPNs will do the trick. I had a client who’s friends got together with their friends and made a “Spank machine” which was a computer off the network that they would teamviewer to.

The solution must lie between the chair and the keyboard.

[mrsmith]

http://www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman/

Hostsman is the greatest.
Not specifically an adult site blocker, yet its filters block much of their content and many sites.
Straightforward (simply puts lists of malicious and tiresome sites in the hosts file), and free.

[Vermont Lt]

Yeah...don’t go to porn sites.

And if your kids do, break their fingers.

It’s all pretty simple.

[RBStealth]

I’m researching ... adult site blockers.

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Is it plugged in?

If so, unplug and throw away!

[markomalley]

Probably the most effective way is to modify your "hosts" file so that your computer will automatically can't see porn sites.

This is a method that has been done for hard ad-blocking for a several years. Instructions for doing this with ad sites is located at this site: Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File.

If you follow those instructions and install the updated hosts file, that will cut out most any ad site.

Then if you add this list of pr0n sites to the end of the modified "hosts" file, you will have a very effective way to eliminate most of the garbage.

Obviously, though, there are pr0n sites that pop up (no pun intended) all the time. If you understand what you're doing by following the instructions above, you can easily add any new sites to the end of your modified "hosts" file in order to keep it continuously up-to-date.

And, by the way, the total cost for this is NOTHING.

If you want to block these sites to protect kids/grandkids, just create a computer account for each of them...make them use that account...and make sure that the account doesn't have administrative permissions. Then it would be very difficult for them to modify the hosts file.

[BipolarBob]

Quit typing in porn sites on the search engines.

[klimeckg]

https://pi-hole.net/

[Paal Gulli]

The hosts file trick is about the least sophisticated blocking you could use and it doesn't work if the kids have even a smattering of tech savvy. All you have you have to do is run an nslookup against the URL (from command line). nslookup asks a domain name server what the IP address of a particular URL is.

Works exactly the same in Windows

The browser only consults the hosts file if you've entered a URL. If you enter an IP address instead, it takes the hosts file out of the loop. Even without resorting to command line, there also are many, many, websites designed for other purposes, like GeoTool (iplookup.flagfox.net) that will perform name resolution to give you the relevant IP address.

Or they can look up the IP addresses of their favorite porn sites while at a friends house as simply by 'pinging' it. Then write them down and bring the list home the use the IP address in the browser instead of a URL.

The TOR browser also completely ignores the hosts file. It tunnels onto The Onion Router network and uses the exit node's name resolution so it couldn't care less what's in your hosts file.

Also, you can run portable TOR from a thumb drive so even if you won't let him install TOR browser on the PC, if he's got a thumb drive, he still could use it. You can use a local security policy to prevent TOR running (which I *think* will work on portable TOR, too) or with a 3rd party app called an "application filter."

And you can block TOR from reaching the Internet using your PC's or the router's firewall.

I have no experience with 3rd-party apps specifically for blocking porn, but so long as it's a reasonably-clever 10-year-old, my money's on the kid.

[trebb]

Good luck - apps that do this are usually add-ons to browsers and it’s easy enough to add/remove a browser to get around them - not to mention the myriad ways to reach the internet these days. Would have to take administrative control over a device and then ensure those who you are trying to stymie have no access to any other devices...