Introducing screens often begins with simple and innocent thinking like how awesome a tablet will be for helping your young person learn to read, or write or math or research, or perhaps it’s a cell phone for safety and connectivity. And not too soon after your kiddos have got their very own device for ‘learning’ or comms with you, they’re asking to download a game they heard their friend talking about, and then next week it’s another.

Safe Surfer invests in modern technologies to make surfing the web a safer experience for you. We have been keeping our eye on a new set of technologies that is being freshly released to devices by major technology companies and organisations via device updates: DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT). Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla have been releasing support for DoH and DoT into their products since 2019 and 2020.

My three year old loves “Bubbleguppies”. And “Dora the Explorer”. I know the theme tunes off by heart. It does my head in. I’m comfortable allowing her some screen time and, to some degree, I rest easier knowing these shows are often as educational as they are entertaining. But I’ve got to keep a sharp eye on things as she gravitates closer to the back-lit screen and zones out to the real world.

Sex ed should be a series of evolving conversations. One in three New Zealand boys are watching pornography on a regular basis. Girls are watching porn, too. It’s just too easy to access. No more walking through the video shop to a dimly-lit R18 nook. Accessing porn is now as easy as opening a web browser and entering a search term 🔍 So—where to from here? Parenting in the digital age requires us to be brave and rewrite what the norm was in our childhood sex education.

Safe Surfer protects individuals, families, and businesses from harmful online content. We make it easy for you to block content such as: Pornography Illegal downloads Protection evasion And much more If you visit our website on a device that is not protected with Safe Surfer, the protection status bubble at the top of the page will be coloured yellow: 1. Let’s start Protecting devices with Safe Surfer is easy.

Safe Surfer provides you with a safer internet surfing experience. To achieve this, we use a technology called Domain Name System (DNS). 1. What’s DNS? 🔍 DNS works behind the scenes on your devices so that you can easily surf the internet without having to memorise the IP address. The DNS “translates” a URL to it’s IP address. Safe Surfer DNS servers carry out the following functions: Ensuring that your web browsing requests are following your filter settings.

It’s easy with Safe Surfer to install an effective porn blocker on an Android device. Along with protecting your privacy, we also use our own behind-the-scenes technology to block porn and other harmful online content. Let’s get started with installing protection. Step 1: Install protection This guide is designed for customers who already have a Safe Surfer account, but you can still follow along if you’re using just the Android app by itself—simply skip the parts regarding the online dashboard.