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Pashuteh Yid wrote:
Just want to point out that this thread points out the great difficulties in using filters. The fact that all these meyvinim need to go through long multi-step instructions to get things to work and then worry about still more work-arounds and fixes and bugs, means that filters are not very practical these days.
The Internet is a big nisayon. No one ever said that it was easy to be Jewish. Lifum tza’ara agra…
Pashuteh Yid wrote:
I once wanted my kids to be able to use email (they regsitered at Yahoo) but then I found that I could not allow Yahoo mail and also block Yahoo search which I did not want them to have. I was using NetNanny at the time. It was very frustrating. Also, it was possible to get around the whole filter in that version.
You can block Yahoo and let them get mail through a program such as Outlook instead. If you are using webmail, I would recommend Gmail. It doesn’t make you go through the main Google page the way Yahoo makes you go through Yahoo. And I like a lot of other thinbgs about Gmail including the conversations, filters, and labels.
Pashuteh Yid wrote:
I decided that best not to allow the kids internet at all on their machine, and to only allow them to use mine when they had a school assignment. Unless somebody has a truly painless way to use filters, I will probably have to keep it this way. If I leave Google search off my white-list, then what happens if they need to do a school report. I then have to get involved and remember my filter passowrd and change all the settings. It is such a pain in the neck. I really don’t see any easy way, although I would like them to be able to listen to Nachum Segal etc. online.
Not letting them have their own machine is a good idea. They should only use your machine with you supervising. Whatever filter you use you can have it whitelist Nachum Segal, etc. If you want them to have access to that without having to use your machine then put the annoying filters on their machines and when they need to use Google they can use yours.