SkieDoes the adult-site filter work on mobile data and any Wi-Fi?
Yes, mostly. The filter is a filtering DNS locked on the device, so it goes wherever the phone or tablet goes: home Wi-Fi, a hotel, a friend's house or mobile data. The exception is a network that blocks the encrypted DNS port, which the dashboard flags.
Router-based filters only work at home. A child who switches to mobile data, or visits a friend, is outside them. Skie puts the filter on the device, so it does not depend on the network.
The filtering DNS is locked in Android settings, and Private DNS cannot be changed by the child. Chrome's own secure DNS is turned off so that Chrome uses the filtered system DNS. A hotspot with no filter makes no difference, because the filter is on the device itself.
The exception is rare but real. Some networks, for example some schools, offices and public Wi-Fi, block the port used for encrypted DNS. When that happens the device falls back to the network's own DNS, and the dashboard flags it so you know the filter is not active on that network. Mobile data or another Wi-Fi restores it.
A VPN would be another route around a filter, but VPN setup and VPN apps are blocked on a Skie-managed device. Network reset, which could clear settings, is blocked as well.
The same applies to tablets. A Wi-Fi-only tablet carries the filter to any Wi-Fi it joins.
Skie does not include a mobile plan or SIM. For mobile data you use your own carrier.
Tip: check the compliance score once after a trip. If a protection dropped, the dashboard names it.