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Good Parental Control App?

Anyone know a good parental control app for iPod Touch that uses a system that only allows what urls are on a list and all other sites are blocked?

HP Pavilion Entertainment PC, Windows Vista, iPod nano 3rd and 4th generation

Posted on Aug 24, 2009 8:41 PM

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Posted on Aug 25, 2009 3:42 AM

There aren't any, because third-party apps do not have any control over other applications. All apps are 'sandboxed' meaning they can only read and write their own data, not that of other apps, so that means no app can control what you can do in Safari.

You also cannot delete Safari, so even if a different third-party web browser could limit browsing, it wouldn't limit browsing in Safari.

If the iPod touch is only used on your own internet connection, have a look at www.opendns.com which allows you to block web-sites for free on your network.
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Aug 25, 2009 3:42 AM in response to krazyracer

There aren't any, because third-party apps do not have any control over other applications. All apps are 'sandboxed' meaning they can only read and write their own data, not that of other apps, so that means no app can control what you can do in Safari.

You also cannot delete Safari, so even if a different third-party web browser could limit browsing, it wouldn't limit browsing in Safari.

If the iPod touch is only used on your own internet connection, have a look at www.opendns.com which allows you to block web-sites for free on your network.

Aug 29, 2009 6:43 AM in response to krazyracer

Yes, those are not Parental Control Apps that you asked for. Those are third-party browsers with parental controls built-in which can restrict access to sites that that specific browser can browse to. They don't restrict any other apps such as Safari or the iPod touch as a whole. So it would be a trivial task to use a different browser to get around those restrictions.

Aug 29, 2009 12:09 PM in response to Julian Wright

Well that's what I am looking for.
By the way you can disable safari with the built in itouch parental controls. I would like to do this and then download somthing like B.O.B. Parental controls browser. My question is if anyone has had any experience with these Parental Control 3rd party browsers and if any one of them stands out as the best.

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