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.
What filtering do you use on your wireless router?
#1 by CedarWaxwing at 6/21/2025, 8:23:47 PM
striverpornographyI like cloudflare's family filter. See https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/setup/router/.
Cleanbrowsing.org is decent too.
Cleanbrowsing.org is decent too.
by strider 4d 23h 52m 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 9d 19h 11m 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 11d 1h 41m 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 11d 19h 45m 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 4d 23h 51m ago