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Reviews for Enforce SafeSearch

Enforce SafeSearch by serv-inc

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Review by Firefox user 14017744
by Firefox user 14017744, 7 years ago
Great, especially when combined with another Add-on called "Public Fox", which allows adding password protection on the Add-ons menu to prevent disabling the Add-on.
21 reviews
  • by Firefox user 13031000, 6 hours ago
  • by powik74154@fitwl.com, a year ago
    Good addon but it's a pain for me to use Youtube. In about:addons under options I can only select "moderate". Is there another way to lower Youtube's strictness? I saw at the github's site within the wiki that you can edit the json file. And I did. But I can't seem to follow from there. Can you help me? What are the next steps if I don't have Linux? Or is it not possible to do this on Windows? I tried zipping the folder, renaming it to xpi and injecting it with Nightly by also removing something in about:config about addons being signed, but it didn't work cause it said the file was corrupt. Thank you for your time.
  • by Firefox user 13866330, a year ago
    For some reason on my father's pc the only youtube choice is moderate. I have choices on other pc's so not sure what went wrong.
  • by Firefox user 17523775, 2 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14734882, 4 years ago
    I do not recall ever installing this addon and it hijacked every YT link I clicked on like SafeMode was turned on.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    The SafeMode feature means that the addon works as expected. (you can configure the level of youtube safe search in the options).

    Would it have helped if it provided some visual confirmation about it working ?
  • by Jawad, 4 years ago
    Overall, a very good extension. Could you add https://www.onesearch.com/ to the list?
    edit: I think I found the answer to your question. In the url of the search result, there is a vm parameter that can have 3 values. I found out that vm=r is strict, vm=i is moderate and vm=p is off.
    I hope this helps you.
    edit2: Added one star after onesearch was added. Thank you again.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    Thanks a lot !
  • by Firefox user 15122656, 4 years ago
    Its a great idea but it does not seem to work very well?!? I installed this extension to include private mode, and nothing seemed to happen?!? I even went so far as to restarted Firefox and still nothing happened when I visited https://xhamster4.com/photos/gallery/12786417/324655470 as a test and nothing happened, am I missing something? I will update if this is resolved.

    Thank You!

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    This add-on only sets safe search mode for search engines. You should not have received a link to xhamster etc by google, duckduckgo, etc. To block e.g. xhamster, you could use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adultblacklist/ , which blocks known adult domains. In the case you posted above, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jsguardian/ also worked (it checks the page text). You achieve complimentary effects by using these together.
  • by PJ, 5 years ago
    Thank you so much for this !!!
  • by Dennis, 5 years ago
  • by JD, 5 years ago
    Thank you so much.....
  • by Anton, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15257193, 5 years ago
    Awesome! I love that I can still watch YouTube, but why do I have to choose "under 18" to allow restricted content? (moderate and strict block restricted videos)
  • by Thijs Douwes, 6 years ago
    This is very good, but it keeps forgetting the setting for YouTube leniency. I'm on Firefox 64 on Ubuntu.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Please check if fixed for you. If the problem persists, please raise an issue at github.
  • by Beguam, 6 years ago
    It breaks qwantjunior.com on Firefox

    Edit 2018/12/15 : No, it always qwantjunior.com on Firefox 60.4.0esr (V4.3.1)
    Edit 2019/01/01 : It always breaks qwantjunior.com and qwant.com on Firefox 60.4.0esr (V4.3.2)

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Thank you for updating this. I had not seen your update until the newest review (PS: github issues might be quicker). They seems to have changed things again. Let me see how to fix this.

    Edit again 2019-01-27: the latest version 4.2.4 seems to work. Please double-check.
    Edit again 2020-12-07: qwant itself worked right now, qwantjunior is broken. Thanks for reporting this!
  • by Sander F., 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14186903, 6 years ago
    It will be better if we can lock safesearch in android too
  • by cucumber, 6 years ago
    being able to disable certain sites from getting blocked, for example I don't want YT to get blocked. And reddit doesn't really work (can easily view everything after clicking yes I'm 18).

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    YT now has a configuration option: try out the "lenient" setting and please report if you need anything else.

    PS: if the reddit problem persists, please file a bug report at https://github.com/serv-inc/safe-search/issues !
  • by B.Forbes, 7 years ago
    Thank you so much for making this add-on. It is too easy to turn off safe search, and making it just a little harder is a great idea.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Thank you for this review. See the review by 779ee8 above that recommends using PublicFox.
  • by alainternaute, 7 years ago
    Merci pour cet excellent addon. Mais je dois le désactiver pour pouvoir lire les vidéos YouTube.
    Thanks for this excellent addon. But I must disable it to play YouTube videos.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Je vous en prie. L'addon a recu une option pour YouTube. Cela vous laisse lire tous les vidéos non-adultes.
    You're welcome. The addon now has an option for YouTube to view restricted, but not adult, content.
  • by S Lorrain, 7 years ago
    I really like this extension. It work very well. It enforce the strict mode on many search engines. An the user cannot change the strict mode. However, the extension should be password protected to block it's deactivation on a child account.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Thank you very much. Unfortunately, password protecting a new addon is not allowed. See the review by 779ee8 above that recommends using PublicFox.