Content filters
Content & family filters
Because AdBolish filters at the DNS level, one switch keeps a whole kind of site off a PC, in every browser and app at once. SafeSearch and YouTube Restricted Mode sit alongside them.
Content filters are off unless you turn them on.
Use cases
When you'll reach for it — Content & family filters
Real situations, not a feature list.
- Keep social media off a work or study machine.
- Block gambling sites for yourself or someone you help.
- Set up a shared family PC so search results stay clean in every browser.
- Turn on YouTube Restricted Mode in the browser and the YouTube app alike.
What it does
Everything Content & family filters handles
Built into AdBolish, and on by default where it should be.
Social media
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X and other social networks, blocked in every app.
Gambling
Betting, casino and lottery sites.
Adult
Pornography and other adult content.
What they blocked
Sites blocked by content filters lists each site with its category, blocks and domains.
SafeSearch
Filters explicit results on Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo for every browser on the PC. In Settings ▸ Protection.
YouTube Restricted Mode
Off, Moderate or Strict, on every browser and the YouTube app. In Settings ▸ Protection.
How it works
Using it, step by step
- 1
Open Content filters
It's in the sidebar's Protection section, and reads Off until you turn a filter on.
- 2
Switch on the filters you want
Social media, Gambling or Adult. A list that isn't on your PC yet downloads a moment later.
- 3
Add SafeSearch or YouTube limits
Both are in Settings ▸ Protection.
Under the hood
How it actually works
How the filters are applied.
- Content lists
- Social media, Gambling, Adult (HaGeZi, GPL-3.0), off by default
- SafeSearch
- Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo, enforced at the DNS level
- YouTube
- Off, Moderate or Strict Restricted Mode
- Scope
- Every browser and app on this PC
These are filters, not parental-control software: anyone who can open AdBolish can change them, and a browser using its own secure DNS skips them. SafeSearch and YouTube Restricted Mode keep working if bandwidth sharing is switched off.
Also in AdBolish
The rest of the protection suite
Questions
Content & family filters, answered
Get AdBolish — Content & family filters included
Content & family filters is part of AdBolish, free for Windows 10 and 11, with every other feature alongside it.