Reviews for Force Safe Search
Force Safe Search by haydentech
12 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by xcv ss s rwe w w, 4 months agoBadly needs an option to turn off for youtube. This page is already safe for work normally.
When limited mode is forced on, as it is by this app, extreme amounts of videos are marked as not safe for work and will not display.
It's good for the other sites except for yandex of the ones i have tested - Rated 2 out of 5by Mat, a year agoThis is an excellent idea! The only problem is that is does not support the Brave search engine which is what I use.😔
- Rated 1 out of 5by Tanner, 4 years agoHaving the same issue with this extension that I have with the Porn/Malware blocker extension: it does nothing. When you first search in Google, it turns on SafeSearch automatically - however, you see a popup notification from Google that says "SafeSearch is turned on. Explicit results willbe filtered." and next to this notification is an option to disable SafeSearch, which works. So even though Google now defaults to SafeSearch, it can be disabled without even opening add ons manager.
Update: I should clarify, this problem is only relevant for image search. It appears that for website and video searches its not possible to disable SafeSearch from within Google, however when you go to the image search results, the option is presented to you. Nonetheless, much like other have commented, you can still disable the plugin through addons manager anyway, so it really amounts to no protection at all. - Rated 4 out of 5by PCLynx, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by GonTheHunter, 5 years agoA extensão funcionou mesmo, configurei o navegador com a Porn/Malware e depois usei essa, funcionou perfeitamente. Só que... Bloqueou metade da internet com essa coisa, desinstalei, não valeu a pena.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12891938, 5 years agoSuper content d'avoir trouvé ce module ! Car quand on est pas connecté a Google safesearch ne fonctionnait plus ! Grâce a vous maintenant ça fonctionne en permanence !
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13648862, 7 years agoI've been using this a few days. So far it seems like a very good browser add-on overall, it does what it says it will do. I have a few suggestions to improve it:
1.) It says: "users cannot override the safe search settings enforced by this plug-in." but that's not quite true. It should be password protected so it is not easy for anyone to go into Add-ons Manager and simply click "Disable" to disable the Force Safe Search . For example, a typical reason someone might use this is to configure their child's computer to force the Safe Search mode ... if it's disabled with a single click in the Add-Ons Manager , even a child can figure that out easily.
2.) Allow some exceptions that the user can set up in a preference panel. For example : on YouTube , if I click on a video that has been flagged as "Restricted" it tells me I can't view it unless I sign in with my Google Acct. and turn off "Restricted Mode" ... but if I do that it still won't let me see the video . (it overrides my turning off Restricted Mode ) . And what I'm talking about is not really 'questionable' content , the clip I first noticed this behavior on was a clip from the Coen Brother's film 'Inside Llewyn Davis ' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Aq4a7g_wdU . No idea why someone has flagged this harmless clip as "Restricted" . But it wasn't even the result of a search , it was just a clip that a friend posted on YouTube , I clicked on it to watch, couldn't watch it until I disabled "Force Safe Search " . So I think it could use some tweaking in terms of what it is blacklisting automatically.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the suggestion! I would love to provide password protection, but Mozilla's recent changes to Firefox have made it practically impossible for an extension to provide behavior like this. Hopefully they will add back this functionality in a future release (but I'm not holding my breath). One solution is to use a FireFox clone like WaterFox, which unlike FireFox still supports older extensions. You can then load another extension in conjunction with FSS, such as ProCon Latte. This offers password protection for add-ons.
Regarding #2, it sounds like the problem is on the YouTube side. If a clip is mistakenly marked as restricted on YouTube, there's no way for this extension to know that. This extension makes no choices about what content is blocked or not - it simply informs the site (e.g. YouTube) that it should enforce the safest viewing/searching settings. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12966318, 7 years agoNeeds a password feature to prevent disabling; Then it would be perfect.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the suggestion! I would love to provide this feature, but Mozilla's recent changes to Firefox have made it practically impossible for an extension to provide behavior like this. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12607168, 7 years agoGenau so wie auch der Porn/Malware Blocker vom selben Mann. Tut was es soll, keine Frage. Daumen hoch!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13563166, 7 years agoHad to disable because the extension was overriding amazon links to its affiliate link and which redirected to an error page. Hijacking links for profit is not what I am looking for in an extension.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12460883, 7 years agoI highly recommend using this extension, especially when you browse in private mode by default it has huge advantage because you no longer have to worry about logging into your Google account at the beginning of each browsing session to enjoy the benefit of SafeSearch.
- Rated 5 out of 5by edcrdnl, 7 years agoI also have this extension in my Chrome (incognito mode) and it works great. Thank you haydentech.