Reviews of Enforce SafeSearch

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List of user reviews and ratings for Enforce SafeSearch

Total ratings

4.05 (Rating count: 22)

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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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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 3.60

All time rating average: 4.05

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13% (3)

Date	Author	Comment
2025-03-10	Fi*****	Doesn't work on private mode, even after changing it in the settings... That should be the main feature of this addon...
Doesn't work on private mode, even after changing it in the settings... That should be the main feature of this addon...
2024-11-27	Fi*****

2023-07-15	po*****	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.
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.
2023-06-11	Fi*****	For some reason on my father's pc the only youtube choice is moderate. I have choices on other pc's so not sure what went wrong.
For some reason on my father's pc the only youtube choice is moderate. I have choices on other pc's so not sure what went wrong.
2023-04-18	Fi*****

2020-12-12	Fi*****	I do not recall ever installing this addon and it hijacked every YT link I clicked on like SafeMode was turned on.
I do not recall ever installing this addon and it hijacked every YT link I clicked on like SafeMode was turned on.
2020-12-08	Ja*****	Overall, a very good extension. Could you add https://www.onesearch.com/ to the list? edit: I think I found the answer to your question. In the url of the search result, there is a vm parameter that can have 3 values. I found out that vm=r is strict, vm=i is moderate and vm=p is off. I hope this helps you. edit2: Added one star after onesearch was added. Thank you again.
Overall, a very good extension. Could you add https://www.onesearch.com/ to the list? edit: I think I found the answer to your question. In the url of the search result, there is a vm parameter that can have 3 values. I found out that vm=r is strict, vm=i is moderate and vm=p is off. I hope this helps you. edit2: Added one star after onesearch was added. Thank you again.
2020-11-14	Fi*****	Its a great idea but it does not seem to work very well?!? I installed this extension to include private mode, and nothing seemed to happen?!? I even went so far as to restarted Firefox and still nothing happened when I visited https://xhamster4.com/photos/gallery/12786417/324655470 as a test and nothing happened, am I missing something? I will update if this is resolved. Thank You!
Its a great idea but it does not seem to work very well?!? I installed this extension to include private mode, and nothing seemed to happen?!? I even went so far as to restarted Firefox and still nothing happened when I visited https://xhamster4.com/photos/gallery/12786417/324655470 as a test and nothing happened, am I missing something? I will update if this is resolved. Thank You!
2020-04-19	*****	Thank you so much for this !!!
Thank you so much for this !!!
2020-04-16	De*****