Parental Controls for Safari

Does anyone know of an effective parental control for OX 10.3 for Safari to not allow my teens on inappropriate web sites?

I can't remember what we did for our child in Panther but what happens when you go to User Accounts in System Preferences and click on Limitations for a User other than the Admin? I know that we were able to create a User Account with more limited access in 10.3.9 for our young child.
We're about to test out KidsBrowser (because of its graphical interface for young kids) but the same company makes CutX for Safari for teens. (More info at company's site here and you can download a trial version.) CutX will allow you to limit objectionable websites (based on certain keywords and URLs) but it doesn't help with other critical children's internet safety issues such as email and especially chat access and transmission of personal information.
You can also look at What's New in TigerFamily Controls which has many more parental control options. You can even enable parental controls from within Safari and limit email access by specific address in the User Preferances pane.
(Just in case you haven't checked them out already, there's more information about the issue in general at GetNetWise (including information on internet safety products) and NetSmartz.
I don't envy you - it's a lot simpler doing this for our younger-aged children.
Good luck!

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The problem is that a lot of these programs actually don't get the proper ratings. This is a bug. For instance:
Take a look at the app for OpenTable. It's rated 4+. But if you go into the app and click "About" in the menu, then go to "help and Support," it pops you into an embedded web browser that is directed to the Opentable website. With a little bit of work, you can get the browser to navigate to Google or somewhere else that will give you carte blanche to see any site, including ****. I have watched this happen with family members, and it reveals a serious defect in the parental controls portion of the iOS ratings system.
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Parental Controls in Safari 10.5.2 Stops Itune's Store Access

Well I have spent several hours trying to correct a problem that seems to have started when I started to use the built in Parental Controls of Mac OS 10.5.2 on my son's new MacBook! All other software and internet access worked, yet his Itunes could not connect to the Itunes store. I would get error mesages -50 and -4. Interestingly enough, if you clicked on an artist or album in his library, you could get in "the back door" as it would take you to that artists page within the Itunes Store. I left parental controls within Itunes were turned off.
I contacted Apple Support and together we deleted preferences, Itunes itself and reinstalled (with restarts) to no avail. We used the disk utilities and repaired etc, yet ultimately the problem remained and he directed me here to the forums after giving up.
Then I turned off Parental Controls within Safari and restarted (it might work without the restart yet I did so just in case), PRESTO!! Itunes opens to the Itunes Store.
This would imply to me that there is a bug in the Mac OS Parental Controls. Has anyone else had this problem and has Apple announced when a fix date is coming?
I bought my son's MacBook BECAUSE of the Parental Controls built in, yet Itunes sort of goes hand in hand with kids so to me, this is a big problem....

I also posted this elsewhere in Discussions, but if this helps some other folks out, then the duplication is worth it!
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I also spent about 2 hours with Apple Tech Support today on this issue. The only workaround I could find was to DISABLE parental controls.
In the iTunes/Store thread in Discussions, there was a link to give Apple feedback on this issue. Here is the link to the feedback page; to get this fixed, I think Apple has to really hear from us. Maybe this is a place to give that kind of feedback:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Also, having parental controls enables also caused access problems for my child at Webkinz and a school-controlled email account. A thread elsewhere in Discussions listed the IP addresses for Webkinz (also on Webkinz help page here:
http://www.webkinz.com/faq/c.html#18
After going through the thread, here are all the IPs (for your convenience):
66.48.69.98
66.48.69.99
66.48.69.102
66.48.69.104
66.48.69.123
66.48.83.160
66.48.83.161
66.48.83.162
66.48.83.163
66.48.83.164
66.48.83.165
also, add 106, 116, and 117.
66.48.69.118
66.48.69.124
66.48.83.211
I'm glad to hear you heard they are working on it; today's call told me they were just "monitoring" the issue.

Do Apple have any plans to include Parental controls within Safari

I was wondering if Apple have any plans to include parental controls withing Safari on the iPad going forward.
It would be particularly useful if you could create a whitelist of websites that could be accessed without a PIN, and then beyond that you would need to enter your PIN to get to any websites not on the white list.
So many kids games have click through's to YouTube videos, and they access YouTube via Safari rather than using the YouTube app so disabling the YouTube app doesn't help, and disabling Safari is overkill.
Anyone heard anything?
Cheers,
Jocky

Thanks OM. For what it's worth my son is only 5 so he's not really looking for mischief online quite yet - let alone hack past barriers I put up (I'm an IT security professional so he nights find he has a bigger challenge against his Dad than most kids when he gets a bit older / more inquisitive anyway ;)) . It's more to stop game click-throughs onto YouTube where he could suddenly find himself seeing something he can't 'unsee'.
I've just disabled Safari for now and left my thoughts and suggestions with Apple via their feedback page :)
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Jocky

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Look at some of the apps on this page http://www.pure-mac.com/censor.html
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Parental controls for windows 7?

hi,
how do you get parental controls for windows 7 on skype? i have tryed to look online for the answer but i came out blank. please help!!

you need to download a third party application.such as AthTek Skype Recorder.http://www.skype-record.com

Parental controls for the itouch 2nd generation

How do you go about setting up parental controls for an itouch?

I know this is not helpful at all
But if your kid has half a brain he'll (or she'll) be able to get past parental locks.
Instead of ignoring and blocking something you think is a problem how about you talk to them about it.
*Does a load of good.*
but if your INTENT on doing this, you can easily find the parental control options in the touch's settings. But i assure you they will be able to get past it.

Parental Controls for Droid X

Are there parental controls for the Droid X. Need to limit what websites children can go to.
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@ Kooshie
I have verified Content Filters works on Droid and all other Android devices for web browsing.
The choices for web browsing control are similar to those used for movies:
Ages 7+
This material contains little or no violence, no strong language, no drug use, limited alcohol or tobacco use, no modeling content, little or no sexual dialogue and situations and no themes of a mature nature. This content is considered suitable for children age 7 and above and parents can comfortably allow this content to be accessed by children 7 and above unattended.
Ages 13+
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Ages 17+
This content may contain one or more of the following: crude language, graphic violence, sexual situations, criminal activity, drug abuse, sexual situations without nudity or themes that may not be appropriate for younger youth. Many parents would consider this material unsuitable for children under 17 and parents are strongly cautioned against allowing children under 17 to access or view this content.
Filters Off
Turning off the content filter provides access to all content accessible through your mobile phone, including content that you may consider objectionable due to the ages of your children or your personal desire to avoid certain types of content.
Please note: Some content may require additional authentication and/or age verification prior to access, download, use or purchase.
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Here is the android article: http://parentalcontrolcenter.com/parents/content-filtering-for-android-devices/

HT201304 parental controls for ipad safari does not fall under general settings?

I thought the parental settings under general settings/preferences also applied to the safari application. I just found out it does not by my small child....horror at this discovery. So what are my options?

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Parental Controls for MacBook Pro

Hello,
My name is Matthew and this is a question coming from someone who currently does not have a MacBook Pro but is interested in getting one. I have an iPhone and it is working very well for me. I have a friend of mine put on a password to limit app installment and to remove usage of Safari in order to keep me away from inappropriate sites. That is the biggest reason I really love the iPhone. However, iPhones and MacBooks are very different. I am wondering how the parental controls work on a MacBook. Having used a Windows 8.1 computer in the past I ran into some issues. I want to use the computer strictly for gaming on Steam. I'll probably use it for school later on, but for now it's just for gaming. With the Windows computer, in order to limit internet usage and such you need to create a child account and set what you want to be blocked. That's all fine and dandy. The only issue with that is that every time something has an update, an administrative password needs to be put in. With me myself not having the administrative password, I need to find the person who does in order to play the game I am craving to play at the time. This is a huge hassle. I don't want to get the administrative password myself because then I can just log onto the administrative account and switch the settings. So what I tried next was getting an antivirus program with built in parental controls and set those so that even the administrative account was limited. However, it's just as easy to create a new account that doesn't have those limitations until they have been set. So that didn't work either. I was given the suggestion to contact my internet provider and have them limit internet access, but I have multiple computers in the house and only want this one to have the limitations.
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Cannot enable parental controls for Guest if FileVault enabled

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I did find a solution. I unchecked the "Allow guests to log in to this computer" box in the Preferences panel. This caused the "Enable parental controls" box to become checked (seems to be a bug). I then checked the "Allow guests to log in to this computer" box, which caused the "Enable parental controls" box to become unchecked. At this point, the "Enable parental controls" box was no longer greyed out, and I was able to check it.
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Update: Although the method above appeared to enable parental controls, they do not work. When I log in as Guest (causing the computer to reboot into Safari-only mode), I am able to access a very well-known adult website (play*** dot com).

Parental Controls for iPad

I just bought the iPad today and my parents want to control me. Does anyone know of built-in Parental Controls, like the "Restrictions" built into my iPod Touch? I don't want to take the cellophane off until this problem is solved. Thanks.

Restrictions
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Reenter the passcode.
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The App Store is disabled and its icon is removed from the Home screen. You cannot install applications on iPad.
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Parental Controls for IPhone?

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Created a new account for my daughter managed by parental controls and now the "?" icon is in place of the Safari icon. How does she start the browser? It is also not listed in the choices of applications. Any suggestions??

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Is Safari working under the other accounts on the machine? If so, the problem probably isn't with Safari, it's with the way it's set up on her account.
If Safari is not working with any other accounts on the machine, I'd follow the other poster's advice above. If it's working everywhere else but on her account, check all of the settings in System Preferences > Parental Controls (under an admin account). As a last-ditch effort to fix the problem, you could try creating a new user for her and seeing if it gets solved that way.
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—Hazy

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