CC: Internet for children

The Internet is an endless source of knowledge and all sorts of information about the world. It makes learning easier and more attractive, but it also carries serious risks. On the web, you can come across phishing sites, installing viruses, or presenting inappropriate content. The best safeguard is always reason and criticism, but we learn them with age. But how to keep our children and teenagers from being exposed to dangerous content? In addition to clear rules for using the Internet, talking and sensitizing people to the risks, we can also turn to technical means. FRITZ routers! offer in this regard quite a substantial arsenal of measures under the common name of "parental control". Let's look at an example configuration of these mechanisms.

Safe Internet for children

Parental controls allow you to ensure the safety of children on the Internet on two basic levels (other security options have been described in more detail in previous posts, most notably here): protection against excessive, uncontrolled use of the Internet and protection against entering dangerous and undesirable sites. All functions, related to parental control are set in the user interface of the router: Internet > Filters