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Note that they will be logging requests, but only from the kids devices, so it’s different to the Disney scenario mentioned above. Neustar or other services will give filtering of inappropriate content. OpenDNS has an option for doing this (which may be pay-for-service – I’m not sure). It is possible to use a service which has family filtering instead. On the ad-block pi-hole I use Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 as the upstream DNS. I added a bunch of other sites here that I wasn’t happy about, e.g. ecosia that have no safe search capacity. The script mentioned above adds to the blacklist other search engines, e.g. The wildcard function will deal with URL variants. YouTube is forced into safe search, but what if you just want to block it outright? Or any other site? You can blacklist any site using the pi-hole admin page. So just blocking based on common terms like xxx should work better. Even those that have 1 million URLs will not block the sites that will spring up tomorrow or next week. The alternative is to add blocklists to the pi-hole. This means that these sites are just blocked outright. The script adds wildcard blocks to common terms found in adult site URLs. The same rude word search with enforced safe search brings down harmless results on Google for example. This change forces the search to be done via the “safe search” settings. Kids can type in a rude word into a search engine and get all kinds of inappropriate content. You should see a file called nf in there if everything went OK.Įnforcing safe search is such a great idea.

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Jayke Peters made a really simple bash script to modify the appropriate files on a pi-hole to do this (other people in the thread worked out how to force safe search). There is a great thread on how to do this on the pi-hole discourse site. Force safe search on Google, Bing, Duckduckgo and YouTube Firstly, let’s turn it into a parental control device. I could see the dashboard and log in OK, so all was good.Īt this point, I simply had a second ad-blocking pi-hole on my LAN with no device(s) on the network using it. I assigned a fixed IP via the router and then ran the pi-hole installation as described on the pi-hole site. Next I gave it the name blockhole to distinguish it from the other RPis on the network. I customised it a bit, enabled ssh and VNC so that I could control it headlessly. The RPi zero has miniHDMI out to connect to a monitor for the setup. Legacy downloads of Stretch are available from the Raspberry Pi website. I installed Raspbian Stretch Lite (I wasn’t sure if pi-hole is supported under Buster). My ad-blocker pi-hole runs on a RPi 3B+ and has a bigger card, but there was no need for something that would not handle much traffic. I bought a RPi Zero W, with pibow case, power supply and 8 GB SD card. I’ll describe how I made the second pi-hole and then how I integrated it into this set up. The router doesn’t allow DNS settings to be assigned to each device.

Yes, I know I can have the pi-hole doing DHCP and I have run it this way with a different router but this configuration is how I have it right now. DNS points to the ad-blocking pi-hole which is wired to the router. I have the Orbi router doing DHCP assignment (static IPs for some stuff and a range for dynamic assignment). So, can a pi-hole be used to make a (free) child-safe internet experience? Yes! The trick is how to do that while maintaining a full-bodied internet for everyone else (and maintain ad-blocking for everyone).

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If the words “by Disney” alone were not enough to trouble anybody, 1) it works by doing an ARP poisoning attack on the router, 2) Disney (or whoever) would be logging all requests from the network, and 3) the free version is limited and you have to pay for full protection.

I have an Orbi mesh from Netgear and this has two parental control options: “Live Parenting Control” which is seemingly being deprecated as they push “Circle” by Disney. Sure, there are ways to do this in most routers but they are not ideal. I wondered if it would be possible to use a pi-hole to make a child-safe internet experience to protect the little people in the house. It’s great! Not only are ads blocked, but it speeds up internet browsing because… the ads do not load.

I have been running a pi-hole to block ads on my home network for a while.

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