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Parental control not working
Hi I have been using OpenDNS only as Parental controls in Netgear Genie app have never worked. I would prefer to use Netgear genie so i have removed my network from the OpenDNS and I am trying to ge...
I think I found a workaround. I have been having this same problem. I am trying to limit my childrens devices from accessing inappropriate content. If I go to thier devices individually and set their levels to the highest settings it blocks nothing. What I found is if I go about it backwards it works. I set my router level to Moderate, then mine and my wifes devices to low, we are able to access anything we want and then all other devices are not able to. This doesn't solve the problem, but it's a work around and it achieves the same goal.
I hope this helps others.
This is how I set mine up - I set custom router level decisions around what to block and what to allow through, then using the ios app switched my and my wifes devices to low and we can access anything we like whereas the kids are restricted to content that we allow.
Another workaround that I'm yet to try is to manually block all search engines as well as youtube and a few other specific sites and get the kids to use www.kiddle.co as their main search engine. It seems reasonably reliable from what I've seen and will give them the freedom to search for stuff without them seeing anything innapropriate, as they would on google, bing etc.