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The Opera browser has a built in VPN that is bypassing all the filters. I thought that the Proxy/Anonymizer setting would help, but it doesn't. Opera itself doesn't seem to have the ability to disable the feature. Is there any solution other than to ...

OneTimeSecret.com has recently been flagged as a phishing site although it's not fully clear why. It looks like there have been a number of similar domains registered recently (.org, unicode, etc) which I found from the profile that submitted it (htt...

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rogerlodge by Community Member
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Does OpenDNS have an option to block everything by default? I couldn't find a way to set that. I'm dealing with an elderly parent who has dementia and has been put on every scammer's contact list. These scammers constantly create new domains. Rather ...

jeremy13 by Community Member
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Question:  if I am outside my network and want to access my network, how do I do this?  What do I put in a browser address window to do this? I have tried the router ip address;  that gives me a login form;  I don't want that....I want to access a pa...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Looking for an option to block a specific category as defined in the dashboard defaults, but on a schedule. Let's say hypothetically that I want to block Chat during working hours and allow that at night (necessary for WFH environments, I'd argue). ...

tamarw by Community Member
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Been reading through numerous posts and Youtube videos and stuck. From my understanding I have configured everything properly. I get the orange check mark saying Welcome to OpenDns. I wanted to test my computer by going to forbidden sites and was abl...

shawn.blow by Community Member
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I have a Time Warner/Spectrum Arris router. I followed a tutorial to setup OpenDNS on my router and have not been able to get the settings to take effect...In the LAN settings on my router there is an option to "Override DNS". I changed to OpenDNS se...

lilokster by Community Member
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Hi. Does Family Shield have IPv6 DNS server addresses? I can find the IPv4 DNS server addresses for Family Shield (208.67.222.123). However, what is the Family Shield equivalent of 2620:119:35::35?

icidns by Community Member
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I’d like to block YouTube, but occasionally there is something worth watching. Is there a way to just type in a password override to be able to allow one video without having to go in and change the entire configuration!

I did the update on the DNS Server on my rb500 Netgear VPN router  and it's not filtering adult sites, Can please someone let me know how to set up OpenDNS with my Netgear RB500 so it  will works 100%. 2 days on this..   In the Netgear RB500 DNS Serv...

big9mm by Community Member
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