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Anyone have experience with allow listing (formerly known as whitelisting) to block the entire Internet except websites you say are okay? And if so, where did you do it? Your firewall, OpenDNS, your router, your child's/your computer?
 

Mii

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Anyone have experience with allow listing (formerly known as whitelisting) to block the entire Internet except websites you say are okay? And if so, where did you do it? Your firewall, OpenDNS, your router, your child's/your computer?
There are a few ways to do this. First search result was this video

https://www.google.com/search?q=blo...me&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_o2lAX5vPDMzH5gLzrI2oDw25

The clicking noise is irritating, but if you'd like I could find you another vid. That appears to be Internet explorer. You would also want to set up an administrator account and have the child use only their account (that isn't an administrator) of course with a good password on your account.

A friend could give them Chrome on a flash drive or Firefox so you could set permissions to not be able to download anything also I suppose. Should work. Try and break it yourself is the best way to see if it's "child-proof". Obviously not by putting in your password to the administrator account but trying everything you can think of on the child's account, including putting the software for another browser on a flash drive and attempting to install to see if it worked.

Here's a link to how to block installation on windows:

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-prevent-users-from-installing-programs-in-windows-7

If I can think of anything else that could get past it I'll let you know. I don't think you can change proxy from a non-administrator account.
 

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I highly doubt any child will be able to figure this out without Youtube access but blocking youtube is probably wisest.

Also look up "breaking administrator permissions" and watch a video or read an article. This can also be done so depending on your child you may need to go through your ISP or get really technical from a professional.

There's also safe mode and ways to force some things, but you can't just learn that from scratch easily.

It's worth paying someone to make it inaccessible. Children these days have access to a lot of information we did not and it could be a challenge to them to hack their computer. Any friends house they could set upon that process. It just depends. Let me know if I can help further :)