Strict Safe Search?

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Doug Vickery

• October 12, 2020 00:19

Safe search is not working so well.  We use Duck Duck Go mainly.

It's pretty weird; I can search for 'boobs' and no results but search for 'tits' and all kinds of stuff.  I flushed dns, tried different computers, two days later same results. :(

Search engines are just as bad as porn sites with animations, full graphics, etc.

I'd like to have "Family" mode switch to strict.  Is there a file I can edit?  I'm not a computer newbie; just not sure where the cname entries might be.

 

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  Firewalla

  • October 12, 2020 22:00

  The safe search filtering is done by the content (or search) provider, so Firewalla can't really decide what to filter.  This means, when you turn on safe search, firewalla will redirect all search requests to the "safe search" engine provided by youtube (for example), and the result from that server is filtered by youtube content filtering.

   

  See this for more details https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022653793-Safe-Search

   

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  Doug Vickery

  • October 12, 2020 23:31

  I understand that, but it's redirecting to safe.duckduckgo.com, right?  Is there no strict.duckduckgo.com or an equivalent url rewrite?

  I'm not talking about youtube or videos, just animated gifs, photos, etc.  There's plenty of sites that familyshield dns can't catch, and the search engine will be the gateway to finding them.

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  Firewalla

  • October 13, 2020 05:49

  As far as we know, there is only one version of safe search redirect for each of the providers. 

  The problem is really on the safe search provider (the search engines),  if they can't filter correctly, there is nothing we can do.  Remember, firewalla just redirects to these services. 

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