How to block porn sites from showing up upon your kids' device? We all know that pornographic websites can easily affect people's physical and mental health. Excessive obsession with pornographic websites can make people feel weak, tired and unable to concentrate.
Especially, young teens may easily get obsessed with porn sites. Then, is there any way you can effectively stop pornographic websites? Of course. And this article will show you how to stop porn sites.
Part 1. How to Block Porn Site on Android Device
When a child has his or her own mobile phone, he or she will have his own thoughts, such as trying to search for pornographic material on his mobile phone. Here are the methods to block pornhub on Android.
1.1 Google Chrome
Step 1. Tap Google Chrome app to open it, then copy this web address - google.com/preferences and paste it to the search bar at the top of the page.
Step 2. You will be led to the Search settings page, find the 'Filter explicit results' and enable it, which filters inappropriate websites including pornographic material.
1.2 Google App
Step 1. Open Google app, an icon with red, yellow, green, and blue G. Tap on the first option in the lower right corner to open the menu bar.
Step 2. then tap the Settings > Accounts & privacy > turn SafeSearch filter on. Then the Google app will block porn search results.
We also can change the DNS to block pornography. It blocks not just porn sites, and some violent video and content, etc.
Here are the steps to change DNS:
Go to Settings > WiFi > select one WiFi you connected > Advanced Option > Change DNS Setting, then add one of the below DNS values.
OpenDNS:
DNS 1: 208.67.222.123, DNS 2: 208.67.220.123
Note: Once you enable the data saver, OpenDNS settings would don't work.
Clean Browsing DNS:
DNS 1: 185.228.168.168, DNS 2: 185.228.169.168
Note: Google, Bing, and YouTube should be set to the Safe Mode.
If you are worried about your child being overly obsessed with porn sites, then KidsGuard Pro will allow you to monitor your child's online records 24/7, for example, spy WhatsApp chats. You can know the URL of the visit, the number of visits and the time of the visit.
Simply sign up for an account and install KidsGuard Pro on the target phone, it will not be visible after the setup. Then you can log on to the web dashboard to monitor the target phone for 24 hours without being noticed.
Here are the ways about how to block inappropriate websites on iPhone
On the iPhone, we can use the content restrictions feature to block bad website content, let us see how to do it.
For iPhone X/Xr/Xs/Xs Max:
Step 1. Go to Settings, find the Screen Time and tap it, then you can see the Content & Privacy Restrictions, just tap it.
Step 2. You need to enable Content & Privacy Restrictions, then select Content Restrictions, next, tap the Web Content, choose the Limit Adult Websites.
For iPhone 8 and early model:
Go to Settings > General > Restrictions (if you enable it you need to type the passcode. If not, you should create one) > Websites > select Limit Adult Content
How to block all porn sites on iOS devices? Just change the DNS values may do that.
Step 1. Go to the Settings and tap the WiFi option.
Step 2. Tap the blue 'i' which inside a blue circle beside your home WiFi or the WiFi you connected.
Step 3. Find the Configure DNS and tap it, then select the Manual, then you can delete current DNS and add DSN 1: 185.228.168.168 and DNS 2: 185.228.169.168 or DNS 1: 208.67.222.123 and DNS 2: 208.67.120.123.
In addition to blocking porn sites on mobile phones, it is also necessary to take precautions on the computer to prevent children from browsing unhealthy websites. Whether you have a Macbook or Windows, you can know how to block porn websites on a computer from this part.
For Mac OS:
Step 1. Navigate to System Preferences, and find the Network and click it.
Step 2. Select a connected WiFi, and click the Advanced option in the lower right corner from the window.
Step 3. Click the DNS option, and Click the + button to add new DNS server, DSN 1: 199.85.126.20, DSN 2: 199.85.127.20. Then you can delete the previous DNS server.
For Windows 10:
Step 1. Right-click on the windows start menu, select Run Command Prompt as Administrator, or type command prompt directly in the search bar, right click on the search results and select Run as administrator.
Step 2. Determine if your network interface is an Ethernet interface or a WiFi interface. Enter netsh interface ip show config or ipconfig /all and run it at the command prompt. You can find your network interface.
Step 3. You can copy and paste the following command to change the DNS server.
IPv4:
Netsh interface ipv4 set DNS "Wi-Fi" static 185.228.168.168 primary
Netsh interface ipv4 add DNS "Wi-Fi" 185.228.169.168 index = 2
IPv6:
Netsh interface ipv6 set DNS "Wi-Fi" static 2a0d: 2a00:1 :: primary
Netsh interface ipv6 add DNS "Wi-Fi" 2a0d: 2a00:2 :: index = 2
If you use Chrome as your PC web browser, you can install relevant porn blocker to block porn website.
Step 1. Navigate to Chrome Webstore to search Anti-Porn Pro extension, and click to ADD TO CHROME and confirm it.
Step 2. Go to cloudacl.com to create an account to lock the extension, prevent somebody from reversing it.
Step 3. After activating your account, click the Anti-Porn Pro on Chrome, and select the Settings, tick the Enable Password Protection option, and it will ask you to sign in.
Now, this extension will get start work to block porn sites.
You can enable the SafeSearch to block pornography from Search Engine.
For Google: Go to the Google Search Settings, and tick the Turn on SafeSearch option, then save the settings, and Google will start to filter the adult websites.
For Bing: Go to Bing Search Settings, and select the Strict for SafeSearch, and then save your setting.
The above is all about how to block porn sites, I hope this can help you solve your difficulties. Porn websites are unhealthy websites that easily affect people's physical and mental health, not just the children should stay away from porn sites, we also should.
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