Parental Content Control

There are many options available for parents to filter the web content their children are viewing. There are many things to consider when choosing the right solution. The age of your child, how aggressive you want or need to be and what you want filter are some of the things that you will need to consider when choosing the proper Parental Control for your situation. <What are these things? How can we help people decide which option to choose?>

DansGuardian/Privoxy/Squid

<description> DansGuardian is a powerful filtering tool with many features to block unwanted sites. Among some of it's features are blocking text and HTML pages based on obscene content, IP addresses, and URLs. It can also be configured to work off a 'whitelist' where all sites except those listed will be blocked. The stealth mode feature is particularly nice if you have teenagers. This feature allows sites that would otherwise be blocked, but reports them in a log.

Browser Based Content Controls

* LeechBlock - Time limit web site usage.
* FoxFilter - helps block pornographic and other inappropriate content. Described as "THE Parental Control for Firefox".

Content Control With a GUI

There have been many attempts to produce GUI 'wrappers' to make the process of setting up Content Control easier. Many of these have, over time, have stopped being maintained. Nanny, being a Gnome project probably stands the best chance of being maintained long-term.

Web Content Control

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