Hiya and welcome to Tech Support Guy

Have you seen this:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/186669

And this section:

Map google domains to forcesafesearch.google.com

You may want to keep a copy of the hosts file as well, just save it to your documents, just in case you ever need to amend things.

Thanks

eddie

 

Hello,

Wow, thank you for replying to me. I have read the guidelines at https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/186669. It seems you can only lock safe-search if you are an admin who manages other devices on a network. I've followed the directions to a T, and it won't work for me.

I found an extension for Chrome which will force-lock safe-search. The problem with that however is I can very easily turn it off. Do you know of a way to disable the option to turn off extensions on Chrome?

Also, if there is a way to hide the button that allows you to turn these things on/off, that would also solve my problem, as I am not tech savvy enough to figure out how to "unhide" the button.

I appreciate your time and effort. Thank you.

 

I had found a way, but it involved editing the registry, and from what I gather, there is no registry in a Mac

In the meantime, whilst I look, can you tell me the name of the extension you have found. If you can get a screenshot, that would be great, but if not, that's okay.

 

Good evening,

- The name of the extension is "force Safe Search" and I downloaded it from the Chrome web store here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/force-safe-search/langadckdfefkcnjfmfnfeckafibfkji

- I remember a while back deleting Incognito Mode from my browser. I followed the instructions here:
https://www.technipages.com/chrome-disable-incognito-mode

- Perhaps it is possible to remove the safe-search toggle through similar ways.

Thank you again for dedicating your personal time towards this. To give you more background about myself, I am trying to remove pornography from my life. It's a bad habit I have been trying to kick for a while, but because of how easily accessible that stuff is, it's been hard keeping myself from relapsing. I downloaded a program called Cold Turkey which allows me to block websites. Once a block is active, the program can't be uninstalled or turned off (at least not in any ways I am aware of). Unfortunately, porn is too ubiquitous on the internet for me to outright block all of it. Google safe-search does really well at blocking all of it from what I can tell. Also using the Cold Turkey program, I have blocked every other internet search engine except Google. The issue is, there is nothing keeping me from disabling Google's safe-search. I know I am not alone in the battle to overcome porn addiction. I think there need to be more precautions taken to make accessing internet porn more difficult. I can only imagine how many young children expose themselves to internet porn. I certainly did when I was young, and engaging with something like that at such a young age is not healthy.

Regards,

Will

 

I had a feeling it was

As for the link you sent, regarding the way to remove Incognito, I'll have a look and see if the way I found would work with a Mac.

I may have to do a spot of reading, as I've found something, just need to have a detailed read

Just to recap, if SafeSearch was on and could never be disabled, would that be what you want? If so, that may be the one I'm looking at

 

Yes, your recap has it right. Thank you.

 

Okay, so using the same method as you used here before:

https://www.technipages.com/chrome-disable-incognito-mode

Type this into the Terminal instead:

defaults write com.google.chrome ForceGoogleSafeSearch true

And then restart. Hopefully now it should be enabled and not able to be turned off.