Using Safari Parental Controls for Myspace

We use Parental Controls for my daughter's MacBook running Leopard 10.5.6. With MySpace, it restricts her at each new page. For instance, mail, photos, her home page etc, we have all manually added so they work OK. BUT, if she gets a new friend, which happens all the time, we have to add those pages as well. It is quite cumbersome and difficult to keep up with. Is there a better way? I would like to just approve the whole site, but it won't let me do that.

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.
Here's how to fix If a browser is embedded in an app, even for reading local HTML, the app gets a 17+.  The only ways to avoid the 17+ rating are: (1) use Safari to open HTML pages/links (which honors parental control settings); or (2) restrict all browser activity to either local files or a very select set of remote web pages on a trusted site.

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