SkieCan my child use incognito, another browser or a different search engine?
No. In Chrome, incognito is blocked and the search engine is locked to Google. More than 50 alternative browsers, including Firefox, Brave, Opera, Edge, Samsung Internet and DuckDuckGo, are always blocked. Only the browser you permit works, and you can switch the browser off altogether.
A filter is only as good as the door it covers. If a child can open a second browser, or a private window, the first one hardly matters.
Skie works at three points. In Chrome, incognito is blocked, the search engine is locked to Google with SafeSearch forced, Chrome sign-in and sync are off, pop-ups and notifications are blocked, and developer pages such as chrome://flags are blocked. These apply to stable, beta, dev and canary builds of Chrome.
Other browsers are always blocked. The list covers more than 50, including Firefox, Brave, Opera, Edge, Samsung Internet, DuckDuckGo, UC, Vivaldi and Tor, whatever an app list says. This stays in force even if you allow a lot of apps.
The browser can be set per child to off, restricted or allowed. For a young child, off is common, which leaves only the apps you added. For an older child, allowed with the filter on.
Installs from unknown sources are blocked, so a child cannot bring in a browser from a file.
These checks apply to tablets in the same way.
Tip: if a child asks why they cannot use another browser, a plain answer works. The browser is the doorway to the internet, and you want a door with a filter on it, for now.