# Enforce SafeSearch

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

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/sas](https://chrome-stats.com/d/sas)

## Overview

- **ID:** `sas`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** serv-inc
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 1,030
- **Weekly downloads:** 27
- **Rating:** 4.05 / 5 (22 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.4.1
- **Last updated:** 2024-03-28
- **First published:** 2016-12-12
- **Size:** 22 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sas/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/serv-inc/safe-search/wiki/](https://github.com/serv-inc/safe-search/wiki/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sas/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sas/privacy/)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #3,302 — Overall
- #13 — safe
- #31 — vimeo
- #42 — force
- #60 — bing
- #60 — sale

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `cookies`
- `storage`
- `webNavigation`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`

### Content script matches

- `*`
- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/sas)