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Can I block websites on iPhone-iOS 5?
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markw10
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Nov 11, 2011, 12:02 AM
 
I am hoping to give my son an iPhone and it would be useful for a lot of his educational uses so I want him to have the internet to use but there's a few websites I'd like to block such as YouTube and Facebook.
Do the Parental controls allow me to block specific websites? From what I've read up on it appears you can't block specific websites?
I have never been a believer in jailbreaking a phone but it comes up for this. If Apple's iOS5 does not allow blocking of websites, can I jailbreak the iPhone with a jailbroken version of iOS5 that maybe allows features such as blocking websites? Or would a jailbroken iphone have these features?
Thanks for your help.
     
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Nov 11, 2011, 08:50 AM
 
The way you do that is to block Safari completely (in Parental Controls) and install a different browser that allows filtering. There are several in the App Store - no jailbreak required.
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
     
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Nov 11, 2011, 11:05 AM
 
I would look whether your router allows to block specific sites. Most routers have that feature.
     
   
 
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