Today every child is forced to use the Internet (for educational purposes). Unfortunately, in addition to the abundance of useful information, there is a ton of prohibited materials here that you want to protect your child from. That is why today we will focus on how you can activate the parental control function in Yandex Browser.

Unfortunately, Yandex Browser does not provide built-in tools that allow you to set up parental control. However, there are alternative ways using third-party tools that will make the popular browser for kids much safer to use.

Method 1: using DNS from Yandex

Yandex has developed its own DNS servers that filter incoming traffic. All you need is to set the required DNS addresses in the Windows settings.

First of all, it is advisable that your child has a separate account in which such a setting will be made, because if you use one account, you may need to resort to disabling the specified DNS addresses, which, you see, is not very that's convenient.

1. Open the menu in the child's account "Control Panel" and go to section "Network and Sharing Center".

   

2. In the left pane of the window, select the item "Change adapter settings".

   

3. Right-click on your active network connection and select from the pop-up list "Properties".

   

4. Select an item with one click "IP version 4" and then click the button "Properties".

   

5. Set point to parameter "Use the following DNS server addresses" and in both columns write the following addresses from Yandex:

   77.88.8.7
   77.88.8.3

6. Save changes by clicking on the button "OK".

   

From now on, traffic filtering will be performed in all browsers (not only in Yandex Browser) installed on the computer. You can disable parental controls by setting the parameter Obtain DNS Server Address Automatically.

Method 2: using special software

Today there are many programs that filter incoming traffic. If you have an antivirus on your computer, pay attention to its settings, it is more than likely that the "Parental Control" function is there, and you just have to configure it.

If you do not have an antivirus or a similar function is not provided in it, turn your attention to the Adguard program - this is an effective multifunctional solution for blocking ads in browsers and other programs on your computer, for ensuring safety on the Internet, as well as for establishing parental control.

If you know other effective and simple ways to activate the parental control function in a web browser from Yandex, tell us about them in the comments.

What is Parental Control?

Why do you need Parental Control?

We live in the age of information technology - nowadays every schoolchild has a phone or a smartphone, many parents even buy tablets for their kids.

Undoubtedly, modern children are confident computer and Internet users - by the age of ten, almost everyone has pages on online services. Statistics show that this is the average age at which independent use of social networks begins. In ten years! It is not surprising that parents who initially allowed their child to use the Internet soon begin to think about dangerous and inappropriate for children sites on the Internet. Now this problem is really acute. In a sense, the Internet is very useful and contributes to the development of the child, but along with this, it is worth thinking about the risks associated with the promotion of materials for adults or prohibited materials that a child with an unformed understanding of some things immediately remembers.

How does Parental Control work?

The first thing to do after installing Adguard when setting up parental control is password protection so that the child cannot bypass the access restrictions that you have chosen. Then you choose the user who will be protected by our module. And you adjust the sensitivity level.

The sensitivity level determines which sites will be allowed access and which ones will be denied. Basically, it determines how thorough the website filtering will be for a given user.

So, what is included in Adguard Parental Control protection?

You will be able to prevent the download of executable files. This means that child control will prevent downloading dangerous programs to your computer.

We have already noted the sensitivity level. From the three available levels, you can choose protection for a child who is 3 years old or older, 10 years old or older, 13 years old or older. The younger the age of the young user, the stricter the filtering will be.

If you think that it is too early for your child to use certain social networks or go to any specific sites, you can add their URL (address) to the blacklist. Whitelisting is a reverse tool that allows you to exclude a website.

Password protection. Site browsing will be limited. A child can only get on it with your permission. Whether these pages are safe for children or not is up to you.

We recommend that you create a separate, limited account for your child so that, as an administrator, you have full control over which sites they visit on the Internet. You can look at the instructions on how to do this on the Microsoft website by selecting your operating system on the right (Windows 7, Vista, 8, 8.1).

Adguard's parental control will make the Internet safe for children and provide peace of mind for parents. You can see how our Internet censor for children works by downloading it for free for review on our official website.

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Parental Controls in Google Chrome

Google Chrome is one of the three most popular browsers in the world. It is used by millions of people, including children who may stumble upon inappropriate content on the web. You need to enable parental controls in Google Chrome to block dangerous content right in your browser.

You can allow or deny your child access to various sites from their profile if they have sent you a request. This can be useful if a site was blocked by mistake, and later its address is added to the whitelist of Chrome's parental controls. There is an opportunity to allow all sites except those specified in the black list, and deny access to all pages except those specified in the white list.

You can expand the functionality of parental controls in Google Chrome using extensions. For example, the Nanny plugin gives all the possibilities of standard control, and also allows you to block the site for a certain time during the day and monitor the time spent on the Internet. You can set entertainment sites to be blocked during the homework time so that your child can access them after they have done everything.

However, even such Google parental controls are not 100% child protection. If desired and skillful, he will be able to bypass them, and, according to the principle of the forbidden fruit, immediately see what his parents were hiding from him. tracking your child's activity on the Internet using Mipko Personal Monitor can be much more effective. It is a spyware that can:

Thanks to this program, you will be able to detect in time if your child communicates with an intruder or secretly visits inappropriate sites. Having conducted an educational conversation, you will make it clear to the child that you are not limited by prohibitions and communicate as an equal, which will help him understand the dangers of the network.

The Google Chrome browser has a parental control function, which is carried out through the management of a controlled profile. By using this parental control in your browser, you can regulate your child's online behavior.

You can deny access to all sites, except for sites included in the so-called "white list", or block access to only some sites by making a list of unwanted resources on the Internet. This will give you parental control on the Internet.

While parental controls are meant to be used by parents to control their children, you can also use a controlled profile for other purposes, such as preventing your employees from accessing certain sites in the workplace.

This article will discuss the parental control function in the browser, this function is also available in many programs, for example, in the program. In addition to parental controls, when using this program, you will forget about annoying advertisements on the pages of sites on the Internet.

To implement parental control, you need to create in the Google Chrome browser, and then the created profile will need to be made controlled.

Create a supervised profile

To do this, you will first need to sign in to your Google account. Then you will need to enter the browser settings by clicking on the "Configure and manage Google Chrome" button, and select the "Settings" item in the context menu.

This will open the "Settings" window. In this window, in the "Users" section, you will need to add a new user by clicking on the "Add new user" button.

The "Create User Account" window will open. In this window, you will first need to select an image and a name for the new user. Then you should activate the item "Controlled profile controlled by the user. [email protected]", And then click on the" Create "button.

By default, the item "Create a shortcut for this profile on the desktop" is activated. After creating a new profile, from this shortcut it will be possible to launch the controlled profile of the Google Chrome browser.

Next, a window will open in which you are notified that a new monitored profile has been created. You will receive a notification about the creation of a profile and the procedure for using it in your email inbox. Click on the "Finish" button in this window.

Now it will be possible to launch a browser with a monitored profile from a shortcut on the Desktop. A notification will be posted in the upper left corner stating that this profile is being monitored.

For a monitored profile that is under Chrome's parental control, the Safe Search feature is enabled by default. When you enter certain queries in the Google Chrome browser, search results will not be shown.

For example, after entering the popular query "porn", the browser did not show anything in the search engine results. This page says that the word "porn" was ignored because Google Safe Search was enabled.

Parental control settings

In order to enter the settings of the created controlled profile, you will need to log into the Google Chrome browser using the account of the user who created this controlled profile. Next, you will need to enter the browser settings, and on the "Settings" page, in the "Users" section, click on the link "Profile control panel". After authorization, a page will open where you can configure access rights to sites on the Internet.

The page for managing the monitored profile is located at www.chrome.com/manager.

In the "Requests" section, you can approve or deny access rights to specific sites. A user from a controlled profile can request access to a specific site. You can allow access to the blocked site by confirming its request, or, conversely, reject the user's request.

The Statistics section contains data on web browsing. Here you will see which sites were visited by the child, how many times these sites were visited, as well as at what time these visits were.

To further configure parental control, you will need to click on the "Settings" button.

In the "Access settings" window that opens, in the "Allow" section, you will need to select the order of access to the sites. Here you can choose between two methods of blocking sites.

• "Any sites" - all sites will be available, except for blocked sites.
• "Only allowed sites" - only those sites that have been added to the "white list" will be available.

If you select the setting - "Any sites", you will need to add unwanted sites to the list of blocked sites. After adding a site to the list of blocked, in the "Action" section, you will need to select one of the items:

• "Block domain and subdomains".
• Allow some subdomains.
• Block this domain only.

By choosing these items, you can configure the rules for accessing a specific domain and its subdomains by selecting the necessary option for this.

You will need to add sites without specifying the protocol (http: //) in front of the site name. To do this, you will need to perform the following actions - first copy the site address, and then paste the address into the "Specify site" field. Next, remove the protocol name (http: //) and other slashes from the site address.

When exercising parental control in your browser, you can change the list of blocked or allowed sites by removing or adding new sites to the list.

The second option - "Allowed Sites" only, is a stricter parental control option in the Google Chrome browser. For a child or other controlled user, only sites that are allowed to visit will be available. The list of such sites can be expanded upon request for permission.

In this image, you can see that permission is required to enter the web page, in this case mine, as the person who has parental control in the browser. To authorize visits to this web page, you will need to click on the "Request a Visit" button.

On the "Access Settings" page, in the "Allow" section, select "Allowed sites only", and in the "Allowed sites" section add the addresses of allowed sites. Choosing for each in the section "Actions" certain access rules.

• "Allow domain and subdomains".
• Block some subdomains.
• Allow specified address only.

Using parental controls in Google Chrome

When you try to enter the site of the social network VKontakte (vk.com), if access to this site is not allowed, you will see that the page will be blocked. To access the blocked page, you can request permission by clicking on the "Request permission" button. Otherwise, the user will have to return to the previous browser page, because this page was blocked by the parental control function in Google Chrome.

On the monitored profile page, in the "Requests" section, you will see a request with the name of the site, in this case, this is the VKontakte site.

You can allow or deny this request by clicking on the "Allow" or "Deny" buttons.

If you allow this request, then the user will be able to have access to all sites on vk.com.

From the "Statistics" section, you can also regulate access rights to sites. Depending on the selected access rights: "any sites" or "only allowed sites", you can allow or block a specific site. To do this, you first need to select the domain name, and then click on the appropriate button.

Conclusions of the article

Parental control in the Google Chrome browser, when using a controlled profile, allows you to restrict access to sites on the Internet. Parental control in Chrome will allow you to control the behavior of your child in his travels on the worldwide network.

Parental Controls in Google Chrome (video)

Today on the Internet you can find almost any information that various officials and legislators like to blame, regularly trying to take the Internet into their chains and "regulate" everything. But now we are not talking about this, but about a similar desire of parents to limit the access of their children to unwanted sites and information. Let's make a reservation right away - this can be done in various ways, but we will consider the option using the service Yandex.DNS.

The "Parental Control" function is now offered by many antiviruses, the developers of which saw a free niche and decided to bluntly "cut money" from responsible parents. Yes, antiviruses successfully cope with their task, however, they, firstly, offer this functionality in expensive paid packages, and secondly, your child will probably be able to simply disable the antivirus without any problems if there are no delimited user access rights on the computer.

Yandex.DNS is a simple and free way to restrict access from your computer to unwanted and even dangerous sites. DNS server (Domain Name System) is a server that transforms each domain name into the corresponding IP address of the server on which the site is located (for example, for yandex.ru it is 213.180.204.11).

The principle of blocking unwanted sites using Yandex.DNS is as follows. Specify Yandex DNS servers in the Internet connection settings. When a specific site is opened, Yandex.DNS responds with the domain ip, and if a domain is included in the black list of the selected filtering mode, access to it from a computer will automatically be impossible.

Yandex offers us 3 modes:

Base
77.88.8.8
77.88.8.1
Fast and reliable DNS

Safe
77.88.8.88
77.88.8.2
No fraudulent websites and viruses

Family
77.88.8.7
77.88.8.3
No adult sites

To set up the so-called parental control or just use Yandex DNS servers, copy the corresponding IP addresses to the IPv4 properties of the active Internet connection. Below is an example of setup on a computer running Windows 7.

Open the menu Start and select Control Panel.

Open up View network status and tasks.

In chapter View active networks click the link next to the item Connections.

Open the menu Properties.

Select item Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP / IPv4) and click on the button Properties.

Select item Use the following DNS server addresses.

Enter the addresses of the Yandex.DNS mode you selected in the fields Preferred DNS Server and Alternative DNS server and save your changes.

Let us remind once again the Yandex.DNS addresses:

Base
77.88.8.1
77.88.8.8

Safe
77.88.8.2
77.88.8.88

Family
77.88.8.3
77.88.8.7

Yandex.DNS is available in popular routers that distribute the Internet over Wi-Fi. It can also be configured as in the example above on a computer, tablet, smartphone; on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS. Depending on your device and operating system, the setup procedure may differ, so follow the instructions on the dns.yandex.ru website (below, under the service description).