I have a question but since I only read a few of the posts on your previous thread I may be asking something you already answered so I’m sorry in advance if I am. Can you get accountability software on those other devices you have access to? I know you said that the other people that live with you are reluctant to get filters but with accountability software there’s no filters to be added just screenshots taken of your unrestricted web activity. In terms of price, that shouldn’t be a problem because there’s a way to get
webchaver for free through venishmartem.com (a partner of webchaver), see here or in my signatur:
https://venishmartem.com/kba and you’ll see the directions of how to sign up for it through webchaver. It’s similar to the taphsic method but it’s part of the commitment of signing up to get webchaver (which uses the covenant eyes software) for free. You can also add other people to who the reports are sent to, and you’ll see what I mean when you go visit the site.
Now if your device is a Microsoft device you can actually get their free filter system, Microsoft Family Safety, which also has accountability features although just one loophole (This loophole doesn’t work if you have webchaver and that’s why I got webchaver to begin with) and
you can set it to NO blocking except for explicit sites. It just means that
safesearch can’t be turned off unless you get the designated administrator’s permission. Now if you’ve ever used Microsoft edge or bing as the search engine on other browsers, you probably know that you can browse freely with safe search on, it’s just that the searches won’t allow you to see explicit results and you can’t visit registered explicit sites which for Microsoft is only p websites. Safe search for google is also the same as the safe search on Microsoft so if you’ve ever browsed with that it’s the same, and not restrictive at all. Anyway I recommend trying to convince them to get both of these programs because they really won’t interfere with your daily activities on the internet at all. And if you want reach out to the people here or me to find ways to convince them if they’re not convinced for one reason or the other. Odds are they browse with safe search enabled without knowing so you might just be able to show them that. (
See last paragraph on how you can implement these features without affecting their accounts or browsing at all)
And if they ever agree, Microsoft family safety allows to block specific websites, and they allow an option where you can only visit allowed websites. They also block ALL other browsers except for Microsoft edge (which you’ll have to use for the features to work) if the parent/administrator wants. Also, ALL of the searches made on the Microsoft edge (regardless of different accounts being signed into the browser) and regardless if they’re explicit or not, are recorded on the Microsoft family safety application for your parent to see (which has a website and app for iOS and android). Your parent or guardian can also see your web activity in general, which means the websites you visited aside from the stuff you searched for
through the search bar. This includes being able to see the specific links that you visited on the website, so on YouTube for example, even though all videos are categorized under that website, the specific links of the videos you watched or the channels you visited (which generate their own unique links) are compiled for your parent to see for themselves. So from the Microsoft family application they can click those links to see what was being watched on YouTube through the compiled history of your web activity. Now this accountability feature can’t be changed (it’s set by default and is a default feature of Microsoft safety so you can’t disable this) regardless of whether or not you want to block specific websites or only browse on allowed websites or even if you don’t want safe search to be enabled (which is an option they allow). Go check it out and if your interested in it, reach out to me to fix 2 loopholes that I know how to fix with the family safety features themselves, so it’s not complicated at all.
Also, you said you want to spend less time on the computer so you should know that Microsoft family also allows the parent to set time limits on the device itself and also for specific accounts. So if the other people that use the device have other accounts and you have your own, the parent can put time limits specifically to your account so you’d be signed out when the allotted time expires but if other people with other accounts want to use it they can do so without and time limits applied on them. And this applies to filters for that matter also, my mom has an account on the computer I use and the Microsoft family safety features only apply to my account and she’s able to browse freely with her Microsoft edge browser and she can also use other browsers also, granted that she’s signed in with her account and not mine on the computer, so the same should hold true for any other separate accounts on the device so long as you don’t add their accounts to the family group and only add your account. So even if those other people prefer to use other browsers and would prefer not to use Microsoft edge or don’t want to browse with safe search on, your designated parent can only add your account to the family group, so when your signed in you can still see the other browsers but you won’t be able to use them because of the limits and all other limits that they have the ability to impose on you through the features would only be applied when your account is signed in and won’t have a single effect on those other users’s accounts. The other accounts, who don’t even have to be added to the family group, can do as they please and browse completely free without any of the features applying to them. So if this is how your computer is set up I recommend going this route and if your computers not set up this way, I think you should set it up this way because this interferes even less with their internet browsing than what I described above. You still should get webchaver though in connection with it because of one unfixable loophole at the moment. But be’ezrat Hashem it’ll get fixed soon.
Sorry for excessively long post and for repeating myself a lot, I use both of these on my computer right now and things are going great especially since they’re both free. They help me out a lot and I hope they do the same for you. By the way I edited this a lot after I posted, so if you read it already please read the last paragraph again.