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Good anti-porn software for firefox?
RoyceSraphim
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So it falls on me to prevent the corruption of our nation's youth in my household and I wanted to know what sort of anti-porn software would work good with Firefox.
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Secondly, most of them work by routing everything through a proxy server on your own machine, so it should work with whatever.
I guess you are asking after filters, which are either too restrictive or crap most of the time. I suggest two options, one simpler than the other.
1) Route your internet through something that can keep logs of domains accessed. Tell the youngster not to do anything naughty, and watch the logs for bad sites. Kick their ass if they visit something naughty. Once they know you can know what they see they should self-police well.
2) Route all your traffic through some sort of custom filter, that blocks all traffic except what you allow. They will need to ask for access to any site they want to visit.
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Xbox360 Gamertag: Emuchop
Yes on the computer out in the open.
As for programs, BSafe claims to be number one, so I guess it works well. And it's endorsed by Dave Ramsey! (?)
Read the privacy policy and google around first before you set your network to use it, just so you're aware of the risk. Personally, I don't think every corporate internet entity is out there to spy on me or sell my web browsing habits to Doubleclick or scammers or terrorists, nor do I really care. But you might.
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Or let them run wild on the net like my folks did with me when I was younger.
I am seriously fine now, I just get arroused by cave entrances and train tunnels every once in a while.
So, you...watched a lot of Hitchcock as a child?
What Im saying is are you looking for a filter to prevent the browser loading porn sites, or a way to track what your children browse.
There are a few url tracker addons for firefox that will dump all the browsed sites to a txt file in a location of your choosing. I cant find a link but a quick google will find one.
Oh, and it won't work.
Personal belief:
Why? Sexuality is one of the most basic drives in any human being. Repressing that, or even trying to, is trying to fight their natural desires, and you won't, nay, can't ever win.
You might make 'em gay though. /joke
I don't think an early overdose of hardcore porn is the best way to teach a child about sexuality. Of course I don't think anyone who watches porn is a rapist. I'm not a rapist :P
I'd say a high-traffic area like near a TV or dinner table is your best bet.
Bust into their room, red faced. Grab him by the scruff of the neck and drag him to the family computer, screaming, "YOU WANNA SEE PORN? YOU WANNA SEE PORN!?!"
Then you scroll through 4chan for a good five minutes, holding him down the entire time, screaming "Look at it! LOOK AT IT! IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED TO SEE!!!"
He will never look at porn again, and probably start to cry at the mention of the word "porn"
Srsly. If you need any proof of this, just go look at what a failure 'abstinence-only' sex education programs have been.
Don't just try to suppress. Teach and introduce. I'm not suggesting "give them a stack of playboys" or even that you're "ok you visiting porn sites" --- but build an agreement based on trust and education, don't do it the other way of just assuming they're going to get into it themselves, and preemptively block it. All software based solutions can and will be defeated, and all that does is lose you respect, as they then think "oh, haha, dad tried to block me from seeing porn, but I got past it. I have one up over him.".
That said, the best way to do this with the least negative impact? The computer-in-a-well-frequented-public-place option. Trust me, it works. They're not going to go porn it up when the computer is in the family room or kitchen. It's just not going to happen.
But make sure if you do this, they're really well educated in safe sex. Otherwise, you're going to end up with one of two things, either:
A) A pregnant girlfriend OR
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ALL ABOARD THE MANTRAIN, WOO WOO!1
I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
The smarter ones learn to delete all the porn sites manually, and leave everything else. You'd get roped into trying to figure out if there was 'missing time' and whatnot, so checking history is definitely far from foolproof.
It was a hell of a day when I searched through the various config files and found the password to the dial-up. Of course, that was on the computer in my room at the time. Had I been restricted to a family/public computer, I would have been sunk.
I wish you the best of luck in your quest.
As for the problem at hand, I'd probably go with apotheos's option one.
Option two, while effective, is more trouble than it's worth. If you block every site except the sites you specify it'd be a very boring internet. You'd limit yourself to a very small part of the internet and you'd be restricting your kids from harmless sites as well as the harmful ones. If you were to go the opposite direction and try block all porn sites it'd be impossible; there's just too may of them to block.
I think he was talking about /b/ which can be downright disturbing at times.
PSN = Wicker86 ________ Gamertag = Wicker86
No late night online gaming sessions for me back then. :P
Edit: Not the actual cable to the monitor, just the internet cable.
PSN = Wicker86 ________ Gamertag = Wicker86
Also, run the internet through a router and check the logs. Just be sure not to let your kid know the user/pass.
Also, that quote tree got mighty fucked up. I didn't say what it's quoting.
PSN = Wicker86 ________ Gamertag = Wicker86
Unfortunately, I fell into the trap of getting "addicted" to porn in my high-school and college years. It was the worst when I got my own laptop and a computer in my room. I think my dad found out and tried to use NetNanny or some other program but I'm pretty tech savvy and always worked my way around them. He never really talked to me about it though, and I think that really hurt his and my chances to avoid it and have trust with it. I personally think that porn has been one of the greatest downfalls of my life, and I hate that I got stuck in it.
Advice:
Do I think you should toss some playboys at someone to make them "mature" about sexuality? No. I think that's absolutely garbage and a bad idea. However, I think parents need to be honest and open about sexuality and the fact that yes, it's human to be attracted sexually to opposite sex and there's really nothing we can do about it other than exhibit some self-control. Abstinence only can work, it does work, and it's really up to the parents and kids to try. If that's where you guys are trying to go with blocking porn, I wish you the best of luck.
Example, what if your kid has a wicked fetish for torture porn? That can't be good for the development of a normal human being.
Blocking the porn sites isn't going to do much at all, he's still going to have the fetish.
To the OP: How old are the people you plan on restricting? If it's 13+, there's really no real use or purpose. It's really perfectly normal to browse porn as long as they aren't say, completely addicted to it and do that all the time instead of work.
I grew up in a very lax household, my earliest access to porn was somewhere around age 12. Browsed random porn sites on the internet and really, it didn't hurt me at all. If anything, it taught me to be more careful with my computer (as porn sites often carry very, very nasty viruses) and taught me more about safe sex than my school ever has.
Just talk to your kids about sex and how it's perfectly normal.
If you absolutely must stop them from watching porn, put the computer in an open area as people have said before. Check the logs every now and then, browse the windows or documents folder if possible (as those are popular places for hidden porn folders) and you'll be good. Never rely on those porn-blocking software, as there are bound to be a few hidden sites or workarounds.
But that's off-topic, really, since Royce isn't coming here for our opinions on his kids and porn.
Even after all that, and also a stern talking to about porn, I was still a porn fiend from the age of 11 or 12, it was a little different though because it was gay porn, but still, theres no keeping kids away from that stuff.
I'm 23 now, and looking back, I'm glad I was exposed to porn at an early age, it helped me figure out a lot of things.
There are always ways to access porn, hell I sometimes did it on library pc's. I guess what I really wanted to say was it's pretty futile to try but you probably should because it will make your kids better pc users trying to get around these types of things.
The only other lists to use with PeerGuardian are p2p, ads, & Spyware. The government list is already included in p2p.
http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/
Alternately, a picture of his mother would work.
Also, don't get them an iPod video/Zune/MP3 player that can play movies. Just makes the porn more convenient to look at.
Religion to stop pornography? If they wanna look at porn, they won't care about their god :P
You are sitting in a leaking, rickety little boat alone on a raging sea of pr0n, but the above is solid advice.