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Setting up Parental Controls in Opera Desktop
My Son has just turned 7 and is now using computers each day at school for his classes.I want to let him use the Internet, but I know how easy it is to access something that he shouldn't really see.
I have researched all the Opera Help menus and Forums, but I cannot figure out how to set up Parental controls to prevent him getting onto websites that have age restricted content.
Please can someone help me out with if such controls can be established and if so, how do i go about doing so?
I really, REALLY do not want to go back to using dreary and slow Windows Internet explorer, for the sake of the Parental Control functions!
Thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction!
Jim
There are zero parental controls for Opera. Only Internet Explorer has prental controls built-in.
But all hope is not lost. It's super duper easy to find system-wide web filtering for Windows. Which is fantastic, because it allows the child to have his own user account and all of the perks that go along with it.
If you use Windows 7, I think "Family Safety" is built in. Just search for it in the Start menu. If you need a download link: http://download.live.com/familysafety. Most ISPs also offer some kind of system-wide filtering thing. So you're not out of luck, just because Opera doesn't have built-in parental controls.
But all hope is not lost. It's super duper easy to find system-wide web filtering for Windows. Which is fantastic, because it allows the child to have his own user account and all of the perks that go along with it.
If you use Windows 7, I think "Family Safety" is built in. Just search for it in the Start menu. If you need a download link: http://download.live.com/familysafety. Most ISPs also offer some kind of system-wide filtering thing. So you're not out of luck, just because Opera doesn't have built-in parental controls.
Good luck... but you might as well block just about any site out there, because he'll still be led to believe that the purpose of a man is to do something substantial for society while the purpose of a woman is to get as naked as possible, be beautiful according to a handful of self-appointed so-called "beauty specialists" and to keep her mouth shut otherwise. Just do the test for yourself; take as many news/media sites with a front page divided into categories, segregate the articles about men from those about women, see what articles about men are usually about and then what articles about women are usually about. The "Featured Videos" on YouTube might be a good start.
Net Nanny is just superannuated and redundant in this day and age.
Net Nanny is just superannuated and redundant in this day and age.
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11. July 2010, 16:10:40 (edited)
You could set up an Italian Firewall.
The home page when Opera is started is an HTML file
which says: "If you go to naughty sites we breaka you face."
Or a Christian Firewall where the page says: Remember God
is watching if you go to naughty sites. (To the Right wing conservatives
I am not implying God is a pervert)
Or the DHS Firewall We have a hidden camera which monitors
your pupillary response. If you go to a web site and your pupils
open wide we put you on the no fly list.
The home page when Opera is started is an HTML file
which says: "If you go to naughty sites we breaka you face."
Or a Christian Firewall where the page says: Remember God
is watching if you go to naughty sites. (To the Right wing conservatives
I am not implying God is a pervert)
Or the DHS Firewall We have a hidden camera which monitors
your pupillary response. If you go to a web site and your pupils
open wide we put you on the no fly list.
As john mentioned two really great free options are
Blue Coat K9 web protection (www1.k9webprotection.com)
OpenDNS (opendns.com)
There is a bookmarklet to have WOT (Web of Trust) but it really isn't so useful in bookmarklet form for your planned usage. But what may be of interest to you is this information as it relates to WOT and Opera.
http://www.mywot.com/en/blog/208-user-created-WOT-for-opera-rocks
Blue Coat K9 web protection (www1.k9webprotection.com)
OpenDNS (opendns.com)
There is a bookmarklet to have WOT (Web of Trust) but it really isn't so useful in bookmarklet form for your planned usage. But what may be of interest to you is this information as it relates to WOT and Opera.
http://www.mywot.com/en/blog/208-user-created-WOT-for-opera-rocks
I have never figured out why Opera devs never lowered themselves to putting PICS support into Opera. The only thing I could come up with is that because it's a M$ thing it must be poisonous and unfit for civilised families... Unfortunately, it is the only censorship system that works, and is utilised by at least 3 protection organisations (ICRA, SafeSurf and O.N.Z.C.D.A). IE always incorporated it as a client-side technology.
You configure the .rat file to your preferences via the wizard built into the "Internet Options" and protect it with a password. Webweavers place the PICS headers in their web pages, after submitting them to the agency (ICRA etc) for validation. If you think it necessary, you can configure IE to refuse pages that don't have PICS headers...
Come on Opera, wake up!
The only other browser to use the PICS system was Netscape, but that was server-side, and very unsatisfactory.
Gordon.
You configure the .rat file to your preferences via the wizard built into the "Internet Options" and protect it with a password. Webweavers place the PICS headers in their web pages, after submitting them to the agency (ICRA etc) for validation. If you think it necessary, you can configure IE to refuse pages that don't have PICS headers...
Come on Opera, wake up!
The only other browser to use the PICS system was Netscape, but that was server-side, and very unsatisfactory.
Gordon.
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a bloke crook, broke and stupid.
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