Enable Website visuals, blocking and good parental controls

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Enable Website visuals, blocking and good parental controls
Enable Website visuals, blocking and good parental controls
2023-02-23 01:44:36 - last edited 2023-02-23 01:49:48
Tags: #Parental control and web filter
Model: ER605 (TL-R605)  
Hardware Version: V3
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Post-Covid, it is apparent work/home/school network edges are morphed intoa cloudy blob.

 

With kids and parents working and schooling at home and with many parents doing business at home, it is imperative that the network stays safe beyond business requirements and still protect our children against sites with inappropriate content as they have become the target of choice for malicious entities

 

All we need is for parents with limited IT knowledge ability to visualise and block block by categories or URLs and without limit to how many URLs can be blocked. The last part is due to the fact that there is no end to the address space these malicious entities can use. Categories work better. The Web filter currently supports 10 links. The bad guys have 3,000,000 links!

 

Kids are also lured by VPN perceived shielding of their nefarious activities, most dodgy ones go to rogue responders and CnC entities again to avoid parental and school restrictions e.g. MDM policies etc. I want ability to visualise this and block them for good 

 

You only need to search block lists for pi-hole etc and realise the bad guys are busy than ever before

 

Please help parents secure their home networks used for business so their children can be safe and the business stay protected in your amazing SD-WAN solutions

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Re:Enable Website visuals, blocking and good parental controls
2023-02-23 04:45:48

  @jogoo1 you could try using a family-friendly DNS server for your household (or even define a separate LAN with that DNS server to only restrict some devices).

Some free examples of this are

 

  • Block Malware and Adult Content with Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 For Families - blog.cloudflare. com/introducing-1-1-1-1-for-families.
    • Primary DNS: 1.1.1.3
    • Secondary DNS: 1.0.0.3
  • Block Adult Content with OpenDNS Family Shield - opendns. com/setupguide/#familyshield
    • Primary DNS: 208.67.222.123
    • Secondary DNS: 208.67.220.123

 

I agree the TP Link router parental controls are limiting but to be fair, they do not aggressively market or oversell that aspect of their products in my opinion.

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