NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Content filtering not working
My son is getting a bit older and I want to block some keywords from being used etc. I clicked on always and added word. Clicked apply and can still look up these words. The parental genie app does n...
Sorry to hear this isn't working. Which app specifically isn't working?
We're planning on adding some robust parental control features in future versions of DumaOS.
Take a look at this post about the upcoming version update: https://forum.netduma.com/topic/29487-announcement-the-future-of-dumaos-version-30/
Content filetring on the XR500-block sites.
- That feature only applies to HTTP and not HTTPS sites which unfortunately means the feature will not work on major sites. This is a Netgear feature and as above we have plans ourselves to do some parental control.
So I cant block the word porn? These features dont seem to do what they say. I want to block a word and cannot because of x,y or z. I think netgear needs to be more honest or at least star these so called parental controls on the box.
