Alternate post title: How to keep your kids from watching YouTube.
At home I have a proxy server, so all content gets screened from the kids.
BUT, the catch is that if you know how to change the proxy settings in the browser, you can bypass that.
For Firefox there’s an add-in called Public-Fox. It password protects all the settings of Firefox. It really works well.
For IE, it’s much more complicated.
I can apply a group policy to hide the settings menu, but this does not work on a XP-Home PC since the GP tools are not there.
I could add a registry hack, or buy a $20 program to lock down IE. Ever try to remove IE from the PC altogether?….ugh.
All too much hassle for me.
Solution:
IE has password protected content filtering (Content Advisor). This feature is really, really lame, and most people never use it.
How to Disable IE in ten seconds:
1) Enable content advisor and set a password.
2) Under the list of allowed/disallowed sites make entries to disallow *.com, *.net, *.edu, *.gov, *.info, and so forth.
Done
Practically speaking, blocking *.com puts out 95% of the fire…you cannot get to google, obviously, and the content advisor pops up over and over, giving the user the hint that they are not supposed to be doing this.