[TUT] Blocking porn on all devices. Give your willpower an aid! Easy streaks

Hey xXsinnerXx,

Thank you so much for this incredible work and for sharing all this with us! It's amazingly thorough.

I'm using Mac OS X and trying to install the setup with Forticlient + Pluckeye + DNS. Currently at the beginning of the process and installing Forticlient 6.0, but I never seem to even see the Malware Protection tab as appears in the tutorial pictures - when I open the console, the only tabs I see are 'Compliance & Telemetry', 'Vulnerability Scan' and 'Remote Access'. Is this normal? I didn't get given the option to select which features I wanted when I installed it - how do I enable web filtering?

 

Thanks so much - that clarifies things a lot.

Forticlient blocks porn now, but YouTube restricted mode is still locked on. Comments don't show, and can't even access videos judged 'restricted' by its algorithm (including SFW videos about the news, philosophy, politics etc). Do you know how to change the settings so this doesn't happen?

 

Also, I'm trying to add sites to the Forticlient Exclusion List, like Instagram, which I would like to block, but doesn't work when I set the site to 'deny'. Can't figure out why yet.

 

Yes, I'm pretty sure I did. OK, now things have taken a bizarre twist. YouTube restricted mode has been turned off. But now the baby has been thrown out of the bathwater and porn sites aren't being blocked at all. And yet Google Safesearch is locked on, so *something* seems to be happening. What could be going on here?

I tried the WiFi trick, but I still can't seem to get it to block 'deny' sites on the Exclusion List. Even after rebooting the computer.

EDIT: We're getting there! Porn sites seem to be blocked again. And YouTube is still open. Google SafeSearch is still locked on when I use Chrome, but a simple workaround seems to be to use a different Google URL, like google.co.uk. I guess that's why I need to supplement it with DNS and PluckEye? And still can't add sites to the block list.

 

Thanks so much man. I'm still going through your original tutorial and following the other steps for the Forticlient + DNS + Pluckeye solution, and already with Forticlient and DNS installed it's sealed some of the loopholes. I still need to install pluckeye though so I can block custom sites, but this solution is already great - I'm switching from Qustodio because not being able to access a lot of interesting content on YouTube and not being able to read posts on Reddit was incredibly frustrating, and I need image search and YouTube for my job so using the default PluckEye 'no images' route wasn't a solution. Your work means a lot!


Btw, adding Cleanbrowsing as my DNS seems to have blocked the safesearch loophole. Multiple layers FTW!

 

I'm not a heavy Reddit user so it isn't the most annoying thing on the world - to be honest the most important thing for me is what people type. Previously I had totally blocked it, so it's refreshing being able to read discussions. YouTube was a bigger deal for me, because Restricted Mode makes my job really difficult. I mean, I can't see a way to completely avoid NSFW content on Reddit and Twitter otherwise...

 

I found an easy way to block acess to some websites.

When you go to your c drive, windows, system 32, drivers, etc, then you open up the host file with notepad, you can enter some websites that you want blocked.

I was able to block instagram,pinterest and bing( And even force safesearch). The only problem is I can go back inside the folder easily and revert everything back to normal.

 

Ill give it a try. Thank you.

 

Would any of these work on a chromebook? I have my iphone locked down pretty good, but the android techniques don't seem to work on chromebook and all those other programs im not able to install.