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Pscottb723
May 06, 2024Aspirant
Netgear R6080 Router
Can someone Please help me? I am not good at using a computer. But I’m here to ask for help to find out what websites my son is looking at on his phone through our router. I go to the website for the...
plemans
May 06, 2024Guru - Experienced User
You're searching the logs isn't going to stop him from doing anything foolish or even slow him down. There's plenty of easy ways around that and as a young person, he's going to find them. Theres even built in ones on most phones/computers that are simple to use.
A strategy would be talking to him about his searches and having open converstaions about it.
here's a good article from washington state about it.
Talking to your kids about inappropriate Web searches | Washington State
- microchip8May 06, 2024MasterYou can change DNS servers to those of NextDNS and use its parental control feature. It also logs which sites are used/resolved, though the log does not report which device made the lookup