Parental Controls Functioning in Google Chrome

  Parental Controls Functioning in 

Google Chrome

We are in a society where the Internet is already a way of life and the smallest of the house begin to use it faster and faster. Therefore, it is normal for us to worry and find it necessary to handle Parental Control in Google. Any word that we write in the search engine can give us a lot of connotations and that for our children at a certain age becomes very dangerous because the occurrences are very bad and the network is open, so to speak, without internal law to any type of content. For all this, it is very normal for parents and adults to be alarmed and want to use extra measures apart from supervision that give us peace of mind and security when leaving our children in front of the computer.

We already know that there are many browsers and of course each one offers you a provision for Google Parental Control requiring a lot of time and effort to configure, a solution is to use only one browser and delete the others (something unorthodox since some web pages work better in some than in others) and another is to use a specific program such as Qustodio, which guarantees you to control all the use that your children make of the Internet on any device and with any browser program. It is one of the best options because for example if you have a Mac the parental control varies and its handling from other terminals is a mess. Thus, the most used browser par excellence and in which more devices can be installed is Google Chrome.

Steps to follow

·         Below you can find the steps to follow to use Google Parental Control and thus protect the content that your child watches when he is surfing the net:

·         Open Google Chrome and click on the three dots that appear in the upper right corner and click on "Settings".

·         Here, the administration screen of your Google Chrome will open, in which you have to go down to "Other users" and click on "Add Person" to create a user that will serve to supervise your child.

·         Select the first check and thus create a shortcut on the desktop for this user and also the second check to control the sites that this person visits from our account. Finally, give this user a name and an icon.

·         Click on "Add" and a new window will appear indicating that the user is now a supervised user and that you can manage the sites that can be visited on the link page (that is, the direct link on the desktop). So, confirm the action by clicking on "Got it".

·         You already have your supervised user created. Now, you must go to the administration panel of supervised users to manage the sites to which it has access.

·         Click on their name to enter their specific area and within it you can activate or deactivate notifications for that user, manage the permissions for each site and block or unblock the Safe Search filter.

·         If you look on the desktop, you will see the shortcut created for the supervised user. Double click on it and you will go directly to the Internet.

·         Within your Google Chrome window, you will see that you can navigate as anyone else would. Enter, for example, on YouTube, Facebook, Google and do a search ... everything works normal.

·         Well, now go back to your Chrome window, see how a list of all the sites that the supervised user has visited appears, that is, the history.

·         If there is one that you do not want your child to visit, you just have to select it and click on "Block". In this way, the user will not be able to access that website from their profile.

·         If the supervised user wants to have access to that website, they must "Request permission" and this request will appear in your administration panel.

·         Now you can approve or deny it.

·         There is the possibility that the supervised user, from his Google Chrome window, click on his name, select yours and access your profile and to manipulate the permissions. To avoid that, what you should do is that from our Chrome window when you finish performing any action click on "Exit and Block", so that in this way every time you want to access you must enter a password and no one who does not know it can do it.