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The only secure method is whitelisting (domains and IPs). It's an absolute pain the assets, however.

I would go with good adblockers and a domain-tool like Pihole or similar. They usually have some decent block lists that will catch 90% of accidental attempts to visit bad places, and blocking ads cuts out 99% of the temptations there anyway.

Put the computer(s) in a public place in the house, make sure they have a decently sized screen so parents walking by can see what's going on.

Make sure the kids know they will never get in major trouble by telling you what is happening, and no trouble at all if someone (online) told them not to tell you - those are big red flags.



Well, even whitelisting TikTok or YouTube, you can end watching garbage/scam videos


Yeah, for things like that you'd probably need deep packet inspection to break open the requests and narrow it down to channels.

Maybe https://invidious.io could be modified to only show "approved" channels?




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