Comment by pyuser583
I'm a parent, and I try to keep my kids from the Internet in general, but adult parts in particular.
VPN's are great for this. Just install the VPN, have it block access to adult sites, and have it alert me of any suspicious attempts.
It's bewildering how VPN companies have branded their technology as "anti-censorship" and "privacy-focused." VPN's are a censor's best friend.
DNS services are taking the opposite approach: they start by having a censorship feature (blocking malware, adult ads, etc), and now are adding anti-censorship options.
There's nothing about connecting to a different network, or using a different DNS provider, that is anti-censorship.
> VPN's are great for this. Just install the VPN, have it block access to adult sites, and have it alert me of any suspicious attempts.
> It's bewildering how VPN companies have branded their technology as "anti-censorship" and "privacy-focused." VPN's are a censor's best friend.
You're already using a router. That's where you would normally implement blocks.
A VPN necessarily does the same thing, and so you can implement routing blocks there too. But this is like saying that a virtual machine is a great technology to run software. OK. Why do you want a virtual one?