How do I make Google and Youtube kid-safe on a laptop?

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How do I make Google and Youtube kid-safe on a laptop?
csb
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Help!

Kids of 8 and 6 use the family laptop to do schoolwork, play BBC games and are beginning to use Youtube.

It’s on windows 10 and google chrome is the browser.

How do I make it inaccessible to anything inappropriate (e.g. porn, terrorism videos, Farage)?

Posted 3 years ago

csb
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I hoped it would be a couple of tick boxes in settings but the google site didn’t really help as it seemed to be about downloading android apps?

Posted 3 years ago

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woodlikesbikes
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You can set a Child Account up in Windows 10. I would also steer away from anything Google related as they have a funny idea of what is child safe. This is problematic as Youtube has some great stuff. But people seem to upload stuff marked as kid safe only for it to contain horrific content. Some sick people out there.

It is far from easy though. Lots of talking to kids about what they are watching/viewing. We get some good stuff from the school too. Especially at the moment.

Posted 3 years ago

StirlingCrispin
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Is it not Restricted Mode, under Settings?

Pain to set up because it needs to be enabled on each device / tablet etc.

You should also have some control via your internet service provider.

Posted 3 years ago

MrPottatoHead
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I’m in similar boat and not as easy as you might think. Traffic going to https sits is encrypted to routers and isps can’t inspect the header packets to know destination and block it. Seems that leaves the best option as paid DNS filtering services.

Would love to hear what other people are doing though.

Posted 3 years ago

theronin
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Try OpenDNS/cloudflare DNS, both free DNS services that will do what you want. Will just require changing your routers DNS server list.

Posted 3 years ago

glenh
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How does DNS filtering help with YouTube (or Google image ect for that matter)? The domain is always the same, independent of the specific content, surely?

Posted 3 years ago

theronin
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Safesearch

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-1-1-1-1-for-families/

Posted 3 years ago

jeffl
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I’ve setup Google family for my son’s android phone. It also shows him logging onto the laptop. I’ve not set anything specifically on the laptop so I expect it’s just him using chrome on the laptop and it picking up his Google account.

So my be worth digging into that?

Posted 3 years ago