What filter? | Imamother

seeker

Thu, May 09 2013, 10:29 pm

Free would be nice, but if you get what you pay for then maybe I should just cough it up.
I am not ready to give up internet, and that is quite an understatement, but I feel like it is not proper anymore to leave it totally unfiltered - we follow gedolim in every other area, have growing children at home... I don't want to be too strict because I enjoy wide access to a variety of content, particularly shopping. I want the filter to reduce or eliminate the chance of accidentally stumbling upon temptations we wouldn't want to see, but I want the option of unblocking in the event that, say, I legitimately want to order underwear online or something(I was once by a friend who could never shop the Children's Place online because they were marked as selling underwear. I guess they sell little kiddie briefs or something, but who cares?! Sheesh. But still, the point stands that I might want to be able to shop for serious underwear, while I wouldn't want DH to accidentally open the website where I would do so).

Two names that I see coming up frequently are K9 and OpenDNS. I don't really know how to figure out if either of these would suit our needs. Can someone help me out please? I would rate my technological knowledge as "potential energy" - I am reasonably quick to learn these types of things, but in this particular area I don't yet know anything about how it works.

chocolate moose

Sun, May 12 2013, 8:48 am

The K-9 will filter shopping. I can't order support hose at onehanesplace.com or go onto Victoria's Secret.

And it's glitchy. that's the worst part. It will just not allow me to deposit a check online or transfer money - but not always. I can't always put books on hold at the library.

finallyamommy

Sun, May 19 2013, 7:33 am

Like you, I try to follow the gedolim... I went to my rav about this last week, honestly expecting that he would tell me to give up internet altogether. He recommended a couple, and we ended up going with K9. I think the other one he mentioned was webchaver, which doesn't filter per se, but sends reports of your web activity to another person (I think. Seemed too Big Brother-ish to me, so I didn't go for it but maybe that works for you?)