Is there a way to NOT allow Safari History to be cleared?

Is there a way to stop someone, "my children", from erasing the history of the websites they have been on so that I can monitor where they are on the web. I'm not so interested in parental controls because they limit so many places that they need to access. But I want to be able to monitor where they have been on the web.
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Posted on Aug 25, 2005 4:22 PM

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Oct 8, 2005 7:06 AM in response to Gina Giordano

I don't think there's a specific control that limits that, but if you think they're up to no good and you want to catch them at something, open up preferences, and go to securrity, and look at cookies that've been installed, and those usually say what site they've been installed by (It's not very pretty, and one could still erase them, but I bet your kids wouldn't think of it.............just a thought

Oct 8, 2005 9:05 AM in response to iBod

Well, my other idea is that in our house, there is no privacy allowed on the computer. My wife and I are both admins and know everybody's passwords, including each other's. The computer sits in the living room in full view of anyone in the room, with no way to hide or obscure the screen. And staying up late at night surfing when everyone else is asleep is not allowed.

I'll have to look at the options on my router. I just got a new one (wireless) and don't know all its features yet.

Nov 7, 2005 12:57 AM in response to Wade Peeler

Wade, just a small word of advice. Depending upon the age of your kids, and the knowledge of computers, and i have a feeling it is relatively high. There is no long-term (a week is considered long term) solution to preventing your kids from surfing on the Internet. Parental controls can be easily bypassed, login passwords can be changed, individual cookies can be deleted along with sites, safari even now comes standard with a private browsing option, that doesn't even save the history or cookies, once they close the window, everything is gone, it isn't even erased because it simply never existed. I will tell you from experience, i just moved on to college, that there wasn't a student my age that didn't know how to get around thier parents' tricks. All routers can log history, they have range of how long, normally how many domain sites, but they can still log history. I simply ask you to consider, as a child, the respect you are wanting. It is much better to sit down, tell you kids you are able to monitor them, but you trust them and hope they will make good discussions. Remember that surfing on the web is better then being out at night, and you not knowing where they are. Your best option is probably simply having the computer in a public place. Ohh, and by the way don't tell them you "installed" a special application, they can simply look to see what currently running, check the memory and be able to tell if you are lieing. And if they catch you in a lie it doesn't matter what you caught them doing.

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