What filtering do you use on your wireless router?

#1 by CedarWaxwing at 6/21/2025, 8:23:47 PM

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I was wondering what filtering do others use on their wireless routers? I have Truple installed on Android and my laptop. However, I recently experienced a temptation to buy a cheap tablet computer to get past the protection of Truple and give into inappropriate content. So I wanted to set up some kind of filtering on my wireless router, so that filtering would still be automatically applied to any device that connects to the router even if Truple is not installed.

I am leaning toward Open DNS Family shield which I think is free, but there is also a paid subscription with Tech Lockdown. I know there are also certain types of parental control wireless routers for sale. When I used Open DNS Family shield a number of years ago I think it might not have been effective at blocking images on Google Image Search if the website the image was loading from was www.google.com and not the separate website that Google found the image on.

I like cloudflare's family filter. See https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/setup/router/.

Cleanbrowsing.org is decent too.

by strider 96d 13h 36m ago

Can the CloudFlare family filter be free to setup and not require an account and you can just type the numbers into the router configuration page? Do they have a technical support department you can contact?

by CedarWaxwing 84d 5h 38m ago

Yes its free to setup. I doubt they have free technical customer support.

by strider 83d 21h 24m ago

Does the CloudFlare setup you told me about have a test page that you can try to open to see if the filtering is working properly after you set it up?

Also can you create a custom block list of websites? I possibly want to be able to add websites to be blocked that are not normally blocked, and I am not sure this can be done with CloudFlare 1.1.1.1

by CedarWaxwing 82d 11h 58m ago

Yes there's test pages. See https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/setup/#1111-for-families.

Here's the nudity test page: https://nudity.testcategory.com/

No, they dont allow customization, atleast not for free users. Customization adds a lot of complexity and overhead (increasing cost) for a filter, so its typically a paid feature.

by strider 82d 11h 50m ago

It looks like my router settings have both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled, with no way to turn IPv4 off so that only IPv6 is used, or vice versa. Is this going to be a problem because the 1.1.1.1 setup guide has specific DNS addresses to set for IPv4 and different ones to set for IPv6? Also do I type the DNS addresses into the spaces that say Static DNS 1, 2, and 3 on my Linksys router?

by CedarWaxwing 66d 7h 13m ago

Can I ask for advice on how to set it up? Do I just copy the DNS resolver address numbers into the spaces for DNS resolver address numbers in my wireless router configuration page? If there are 4 spaces in my config page I think I could enter numbers into the first two and leave the third and fourth blank. I would use the ones for IPv6 I think.

by CedarWaxwing 70d 6h 55m ago

I just set this up today. I've been using opendns for over a decade. Once you create an account, you set up your network with your router's public ip, you can control the filtering from their console. It works great!

by NotMyWill 101d 8h 55m ago

My research on OpenDNS is leading me to the potential advice that I will need to disable IPv6 on my router and switch to IPv4 if I want to use OpenDNS Family Shield. I don't really like downgrading, but according to my research it is very rare that a website would be only IPv6 and not support IPv4 capability. My research tells me the effect should be negligible.

by CedarWaxwing 102d 15h 25m ago

My filtering for a router also needs to apply to my devices if I use a VPN, which I am not sure if this is possible. I may change the password for the VPN to something I don't know and store it in a place that is not convenient to access so that I can't use the VPN on a new device.

by CedarWaxwing 103d 9h 29m ago

The vpn will use it's own DNS. I dont think I've seen one that doesn't. Same goes for proxies.

by strider 96d 13h 35m ago