Parental Control - block porn on mobile Android
Take care about your kids - the way of blocking porn on their Android Smarthphone
What you will find here:
Blocking porn on a Android Smartphone devices
Tested with Xiaomi Redmi Note 5, Android 9
Porn blockage includes installation of Safe Browser on the device
Facebook, Twitter - analysis
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Well, if you are here, more than you are a parent and you would like to keep your kids safe from watching porn on the Internet. Probably we'd also agree that pornography is dangerus for children since they are growing, do not have self control and finally may become addiccted of porn which may impact also thier adult live.
Porn/adult content blocking - why it is not easy?
Blocking porn, on phone or desktop/laptop, is not an easy task. In this article, I will focus on how to block porn on Mobile Google Android devices (smartphones). This way really works but bear in mind that there is one condition which must be kept: You need to avoid having more than the presented below Web Browser which is the subject of the presented way of blocking porn on smartphones. There is Google that may be helpful here: Parental control with Google's family Links, but this article does NOT cover
Parental control with Google's family Links configuration, so at the moment we need to be sure that the only one Web browser will be installed on devices. The name of main actor, the web browser that block porn is: SPIN SAFE BROWSER available on Google Play store By having above, you are done and you may skip the rest. However, your kid will more than likely hack this way very easily by using for instance the embedded browsers. so, as mentioned, blocking porn is not easy. Let's go there a bit deeper and see why:
SPIN SAFE BROWSER available on Google Play store
Why blocking porn is not easy?
There are billions porn websites that should be blocked, how to manage them all?
Web browsers still allow incognito/inprivate mode - even if you would like to restrict your child’s Google account with Safe Google search, the incognito (in-private) mode in the mobile browser will switch to non-signed Google user, so, kids protection from porn by using the Safe Search method is gone in addition, no history about seen pages.
You need to be aware that porn contests (pictures, video) may be present even on considered as safe from porn and popular services like Facebook or Twitter. Sad but true. Twitter from that point of view is really not safe just because of users that put their video dedicated for people above 18 years old. Usually there is information about the content, but… well… up to you what you will do with that. Anyway, Facebook has its own, embeded web browser, so once you allow your kid to use Facebook, enven Twitter app will be not installed, you/your kid will not have Twitter account, your kid will able to vist Twitter users accounts that share their porn content.
Most free apps for blocking pornoghraphy on mobile devices are not so efficient, and may be also treated as risks by Google Play (I had at least few such cases).
Good apps are expensive, of course you can pay if you like but sometimes even expensive apps still allow children to visit porn websites.
Routers (network devices) could do a good job here, by using content filtering. Content filtering is really cool: once there are some keywords on the particular website, the router blocks the website. Well, the routers with such options are expensive plus, unfortunately, installing such a router requires a call to your current ISP.
Overall steps that to be performed to block adult content on Android device
Download SPIN Safe Browser to your Android device
Block embedded Web browsers like "Internet", Google Chrome by secure them by password (settings Apps App lock)
Force using SPIN Safe Browser by Facebook (Open Facebook on your smartphone tap on three stripes on right top corner Settings go to bottom "Media and Contacts" turn off "Open link externally"
Watch over to do not install additional Web Browsers on the device.
The way above will help to block porn on the device, so as a parent, you will be able to at least try to protect your kids from porn. Please be aware that this method works in a specific point of time (year of 2020), instruction may not fully relevant to your device (different menu etc), so treat this article not like step by step instruction but more like an idea how to efficiently block porn on device.
Posted: Q3 2020
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