I'm a parent, and I try to keep my kids from the Internet in general, but adult parts in particular.
VPN's are great for this. Just install the VPN, have it block access to adult sites, and have it alert me of any suspicious attempts.
It's bewildering how VPN companies have branded their technology as "anti-censorship" and "privacy-focused." VPN's are a censor's best friend.
DNS services are taking the opposite approach: they start by having a censorship feature (blocking malware, adult ads, etc), and now are adding anti-censorship options.
There's nothing about connecting to a different network, or using a different DNS provider, that is anti-censorship.
> VPN's are great for this. Just install the VPN, have it block access to adult sites, and have it alert me of any suspicious attempts.
> It's bewildering how VPN companies have branded their technology as "anti-censorship" and "privacy-focused." VPN's are a censor's best friend.
You're already using a router. That's where you would normally implement blocks.
A VPN necessarily does the same thing, and so you can implement routing blocks there too. But this is like saying that a virtual machine is a great technology to run software. OK. Why do you want a virtual one?
> There's nothing about connecting to a different network, or using a different DNS provider, that is anti-censorship.
In a sense, it allows you to pick your censors, or no censors. "Anti-censorship" doesn't necessarily mean that nothing is blocked; it means you get to control what's blocked for yourself.
VPNs have nothing to do with it. I guess yours has some kind of filtering service, but that's not at all related to a VPN. It's like buying a V8 engine because you wanted a turbo. V8's can have turbos, but it has nothing to do with being a V8.
Making your own filter choices should not be referred to as "censorship". Censorship is when the choice is taken away.
I'm taking the choice away from my kids.