Enforce SafeSearch

Name: Enforce SafeSearch
Rating: 4.0455 (22 reviews)
Author: serv-inc

Toggles the built-in filter on Google, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ixquick, Startpage, Dogpile, Yandex, Vimeo, Reddit, Ecosia, Dailymotion, Qwant, Patreon, and Onesearch .

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Enforce SafeSearch is a Chrome extension that automatically toggles the built-in adult content filters, commonly known as SafeSearch, across multiple popular websites including Google, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and many others. It ensures a safer browsing experience by consistently enabling content filters to block explicit or adult material.

This extension supports a wide range of platforms such as search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo), video sharing sites (YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion), social media (Reddit), and alternative engines (Ixquick, Startpage, Dogpile, Qwant, Ecosia, Onesearch). By automating the SafeSearch toggle, it simplifies parental controls and workplace safety browsing policies without manual configuration.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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Version:

6.4.1 Last updated: 2024-03-28

Version code:

5712441

Creation date:

2016-12-12

Risk:

Permissions:

Content scripts matches:

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www.youtube.com

Size:

21.98KB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-17

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 3,026 ▲ 30

Other rankings

#13 in safe keyword 48

#27 in vimeo keyword 31

#38 in force keyword 24

#47 in sale keyword 38 ▲ 3

#55 in research keyword 27 ▲ 2

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Developed by:

serv-inc

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sas/

Website:

https://github.com/serv-inc/safe-search/wiki/

Permission Change History

2022-01-19: Version 4.3.0 → 6.4.0

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User Reviews

Enforce SafeSearch is praised for effectively maintaining strict or moderate SafeSearch restrictions across various search engines, helping parents control content access. Users appreciate its concept and functionality, though some report issues like lack of private mode support, limited YouTube strictness options, occasional forgetting of settings, and site compatibility problems. Several users suggest features like password protection to prevent disabling, enhancing its usability especially for managing child accounts.

Pros

Effectively enforces SafeSearch mode on multiple search engines, preventing users (especially children) from disabling it.
Works well to restrict inappropriate content while still allowing access to platforms like YouTube with controlled settings.
Helpful for parents or educators wanting to maintain SafeSearch settings and avoid easy deactivation.
Receives appreciation for its concept and functionality to promote safer browsing environments.
Can be enhanced by combining with other add-ons (e.g., password protection) to prevent disabling.

Cons

Does not work in private browsing mode despite settings to enable this feature.
Issues with YouTube filtering settings: limited to 'moderate' only and difficulty adjusting strictness levels or exceptions.
Extension forgets YouTube leniency settings occasionally, causing frustration.
Can break or impede functioning of certain sites like qwantjunior.com and qwant.com.
Lacks password protection to prevent deactivation, reducing enforcement reliability on child accounts.

Recent reviews

Doesn't work on private mode, even after changing it in the settings... That should be the main feature of this addon...

by Fi*****, 2025-03-10

by Fi*****, 2024-11-27

Good addon but it's a pain for me to use Youtube. In about:addons under options I can only select "moderate". Is there another way to lower Youtube's strictness? I saw at the github's site within the wiki that you can edit the json file. And I did. But I can't seem to follow from there. Can you help me? What are the next steps if I don't have Linux? Or is it not possible to do this on Windows? I tried zipping the folder, renaming it to xpi and injecting it with Nightly by also removing something in about:config about addons being signed, but it didn't work cause it said the file was corrupt. Thank you for your time.

by po*****, 2023-07-15

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Is Enforce SafeSearch Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Enforce SafeSearch requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

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Enforce SafeSearch has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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