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Newbee1
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7 months ago
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Child safe not blocking adult content

Has anyone had similar issues? Seems like child safe blocks all adult content on iOS 16 and below but not on newer iOS versions.  For past two weeks I have been contacting VM and after every convers...
  • GregorianChant's avatar
    7 months ago

    The latest versions of iOS include a feature called ‘Private Relay’ which is switched on by default. This ‘bounces’ your internet connection through a number of different servers, it’s similar to a VPN but not quite the same.

    The purpose is to ‘hide’ your internet browsing from your ISP and give a degree of anonymity. Alas, this has a side effect of blowing a massive hole in VM’s Websafe and Childsafe filtering, as it simply bypasses it.

    There is nothing, absolutely nothing VM can do to fix this! You can, on each device, disable this Private Relay feature  for your own WiFi network (the option is buried in the iCloud part of the settings app).

    But of course there is nothing stopping the phone /iPad user just turning it back on again.