Hello!
I’m looking for a browser that allows me to whitelist a few safe websites / ip addresses and block the rest, so I can step away from my kids at a computer and not worry about them going down a click-bait hole or watching inappropriate videos, etc.
It seems like this should be easy to implement and password protect (the filter list could live in a protected area of the system, e.g.), and it would definitely help a lot of people. It just does not exist anywhere and system-wide packet-filtering kills other necessary apps, like Teams (used to connect to school).
This doesn’t need to be fancy; even just a text file with something like
*.wikipedia.org
*.wikimedia.org
kiddle.co
20.34.8.124
or something that, if present in /etc/whatever/the/path.cfg or (ideally) a password-protected location, would act as a filter for outbound requests; this could be checked on the app’s first load. This only has to be clever enough to block a 5 year old, not a full-fledged teenage hacker.
I have a plugin that does this, but it’s easy to disable plugins even by just clicking around randomly, or one can get around it by simply going private.
Thanks!