How to setup Safe Search

[support]

Open the Access Control page, in the profile you want to turn on Safe Search, check the “Safe Search” checkbox, then click Save at the bottom of the page.

After you do this, Safe Search should be turned on for Bing and Google. Yahoo doesn’t support Safe Search over HTTPS. So you need to block Yahoo search: enter either search.yahoo.com or https://search.yahoo.com in the “Blocked URLs” box.

Ideally you need to block other search engines as well.

If you use OpenDNS Home, this is what you need to do:

1. Log in your OpenDNS account and check the box to block search engines.
2. Add google.com and bing.com to the “Allowed URLs” box on the router.
3. If you use duckduckgo, then add safe.duckduckgo.com to the “Allowed URLs” box.

If you use other DNS services as filter and cannot blanket block search engines, then add the following to the “Blocked URLs” box:

• ask.com
• dogpile.com
• duckduckgo.com
• excite.com
• gigablast.com
• lycos.com
• qwant.com
• search.yahoo.com
• yandex.com
• yippy.com

Again, if you want to use duckduckgo, then add safe.duckduckgo.com to “Allowed URLs”.

[Casino]

On which sites pcwrt has enabled the safe search? Goole, Bing and which others? It’s possible to have a list of them?

[support]

Three search engines provide Safe Search at the network level:

1. google.com
2. bing.com
3. duckduckgo.com

Other search engines should be blocked.

[Casino]

I don’t know why but i have other search engine on forced safesearch, also when parental control is off, like duckduckgo and ask.com too. Maybe because i use cleanbrowsing DNS? They enforce them automatically.

We are very happy to announce that CleanBrowsing now enforces Safe Search on @DuckDuckGo.

Parents & Schools: DuckDuckGo is now certified child friendly as safe[.]duckduckgo[.]com can be enforced at the DNS level.

*Thanks @yegg for listening and working with us!

Happy 2019.

— CleanBrowsing [Parental Control / DNS Filter] (@cleanbrowsing) December 31, 2018

Am i right? Can pcwrt do the same thing?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Casino.

[support]

CleanBrowsing automatically enforces safe search and YouTube restricted mode. And it can’t be turned off. We’ll keep SafeSearch optional to give you more control – it’s not hard to turn it on and off anyway.

BTW, it seems that ask.com does not offer safe search on the network level. Correct me if I’m wrong.

[Casino]

Ask.com is on safesearch mode. If i write “boobs” or “porn” it not show nothing. Try it yourself.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Casino.

[Casino]

The reason why Ask.com and ALL the others search engine are on safe mode when CleanBrowsing is turned on is told by “Daniel Cid”, Keymaster and founder of CleanBrowsing.

“We do block image search/video search on our Free Family filter when we can not enforce Safe Search.”

Unfiltered Search Engine

This thing is GREAT. It turns Internet in a really safe place.

Can pcWRT do the same thing?

[Casino]

Is it possible for you? It would be great.

[support]

@casino He’s saying that CleanBrowsing blocks search engines that do not support safe search. So if you switch the DNS to CleanBrowsing, then the unsafe search engines will be blocked.

[Casino]

Yes, i understand this, but i want to know if pcWRT can do the same thing by itself (exactly as you do for the SafeSearch, it was a good idea), without setting the CleanBrowsing DNS.

Can you make it possible?

[support]

@casino Good idea. Will add this in the next update.

[Casino]

With the new firmware 2.2.1, pcWRT blocks the video/image search on the search engine without the safe search, or it blocks the whole search engine?

Example: pcWRT blocks image/video search on ask.com, or it blocks the whole “ask.com”?

[support]

Since it’s not possible to determine HTTPS URL paths without decrypting the connection, the router blocks the whole domain.

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