FoxFilter - Effective Web Content Filter | Chrome Extension
FoxFilter - The content filter! is a Chrome extension designed to block any pornographic and other inappropriate content from your viewing on the internet. Ideal for home, business, or educational use, it offers customizable filtering preferences and sensitivity settings. Premium features include password protection, password recovery, advanced security to prevent bypass or uninstallation, and shared settings across multiple computers. FoxFilter is a user-friendly and effective solution to regulate internet content and ensure safety and appropriateness in cyberspace.
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Protect your family from inappropriate content on the web. FoxFilter is an effective content filter that helps block pornographic and other inappropriate content.
Getting Started
Once installed, right-click on any web page and select “FoxFilter Settings” to change the default settings to your preferences.
FoxFilter is an effective content filter that helps block pornographic and other user-defined content by allowing you to fully customize your filtering preferences and sensitivity settings. We are thrilled that many use FoxFilter in their homes, businesses and classrooms, which is what sparked the creation of our hosted options (Hosted, Pro, Enterprise). Using one of the premium hosted features allows you to manage your personalized settings for all of your computers/accounts from a single computer. Our premium features also offer password-protected settings and security features to help prevent it from being bypassed, uninstalled or disabled.
All of the filtering features are completely free of charge. However, due to the volume of support requests pertaining to forgotten passwords as well as other support costs that we incur, security and other premium features are now only available to subscribed users. A subscription fee is required to obtain a registration code and varies depending on which premium options you select.
The FoxFilter Team has spent many long days and nights in the development, maintenance and support of FoxFilter. We are very proud of our product and are very happy that is helping protect children, teens and adults from inappropriate content on the Internet. We're confident that you will agree that FoxFilter is the most simple and effective extension for filtering inappropriate content.
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Pros
Easy to configure
Can be set to run in incognito mode
Useful for parental control
Allows users to insert their own filters
Cons
Requires subscription for full functionality
May block useful websites
Some users experienced errors saving changes
Limited free version
Most mentioned
Unable to uninstall
Blocks entire site
Errors saving changes
Subscription required
User reviews
Please support payment method other than PayPal for subscriptions.
And consider updating the app to 2024 as it says "Updated: June 7, 2021".
If you don't know anything about the "settings" page, the star rating is probably accurate. This doesn't come configured out of the box. However, if you have been around computers for a while, this is a very easy to configure extension.
It needs to be set up by the user or administrator. You need to tell it what counts as an off limits word as well as words that are fine if you come across them. The lists that come with the extension aren't very good (like blocking 18+ and sex might hit on randomly generated urls), but if you spend some energy on it, it isn't that hard to get it just right. With the subscription, it will keep your lists on a cloud server, where you can update it for all the users you have logged in. It takes about 10 minutes to update after a change.
You can block the URL and Title, or you can make it block anything on the page. It can be made to block the "extensions" page, so keep the password easy to find. That means you can't uninstall it without doing some very involved computer repair stuff. You'll forgive me for not saying how here. You can also set the extension to run in incognito mode.
You can set the error to be the default, which tells you what keyword was found and blocked, or you can set it to redirect to another page. You can make your own error page on a hosted site, or you can redirect to kids' Britannica or something.
I limit the internet for my teens, of course, but I also use it for myself. I don't want porn on my computer (though part of me does). Even knowing how to change the settings, I have to overcome my laziness to walk over to where I store the password, spend the energy to enter it, update the settings, wait for it to propagate. With that kind of difficulty, my better nature keeps my carnal nature in check most of the time. There's no impulse internet viewing with this app in the way. Of course, if you have the knowledge and the inclination, you can get around anything, but if you have the inclination, it's easy enough to go to the adult bookstore down the road too.
I use other tools, Clean Browsing DNS, Google Family Link, Accountable2You, but one blocks too little, another blocks too much, and one tells on you for false positives all too often. With all the euphemisms out there for adult organs and activities, it really does take a personal touch. A consistent pattern of updating, daily, then weekly, then monthly. IMO, I couldn't do this internet viewing thing without Foxfilter. If your hand makes you sin, cut it off. You know what I mean? Not your hand so much as keywords and websites.
Its a content blocker that can block content that contains certain words, so it blocks youtube and spells it out to the a child we blocked this because "Found the blocked keyword 'free and sex' in the page's Body"
Exactly why would I want the very banned words displayed as a result on the block page.