Can I block or allow one specific website on my child's phone?

Skie for Parents · Updated

Short answer

Not yet. Skie does not have per-website allow or block lists today. Adult sites are blocked by a filter locked on the device, SafeSearch is forced, and the browser can be off, restricted or allowed per group. The team is working on per-website lists.

Parents ask for two things. Block a particular site, and allow only a few sites. Both need a list of websites that you control, and that is not available in Skie yet.

What exists is a locked filter. A filtering DNS set on the device blocks adult sites on any Wi-Fi or mobile data, and Chrome has SafeSearch, restricted YouTube and safe-sites protection forced. Incognito, other browsers, VPN apps and proxy apps are blocked, so the filter is hard to step around.

You also decide whether the browser exists at all. For each group you can set it to off, restricted or allowed. If the problem is one site, and your child is young, turning the browser off removes it altogether. If your child needs the web for study, allow it with the filter in place.

Another route for a specific app-based site is to leave the app out of the allowed list. If a platform is mostly used through its own app, hiding the app removes most of the problem, though the same site can still open in the browser.

Some other tools have per-site lists, such as Net Nanny and Qustodio, working at app level. We will add this page when per-website lists arrive.