Windows 10: Bing SafeSearch Stuck on as Strict in the UK

Hello all,


Been dealing with a fairly annoying issue the past few days. I recently moved to London for my masters, and have been using a home personal network for the first few days. No issue whatsoever. However, I decided to link my school Microsoft account and that is where the issues began. I believe my school must have a Strict Safe Search designation linked to it, because as soon as I linked it my safe-search across platforms was enabled and placed on strict. Attempting to change it was impossible (Bing) or it immediately turns back on (google).


The Strict Safe search has been blocking a lot - many innocuous things. It has blocked music videos and a number of apps on my phone. Or at least they won't run properly.


At first I was able to go to Bing (not signed in) and change it to Off again, and then it would work for a bit. Annoying, but fixable. However, now it is stuck on Strict and I am unable to change it whether or not I am signed in or not. All it says is:



Your country or region requires a strict Bing SafeSearch setting, which filters out results that might return adult content. If you're seeing adult content, tell us about it so we can filter it in the future. To learn more about SafeSearch requirements in your country or region, see How Bing delivers search results.


I am in the UK using a UK internet provider. The UK is not a "strict" country, but I cannot seem to change it.

I have tired:
-Unlinking my student account (which I need, so this was just to see if it worked).

-Clearing my cache

-Editing my Microsoft settings

-Changing my region


... and various other things, none of which work. Can anyone help me navigate this? Ideally, I'd be in charge of my own settings (moderate) and still be able to use my school account (i.e. email).


So far Microsoft's "ask and expert" thing has been a failure so I'm hoping someone here knows how to change this.

:)

 

Bing SafeSearch Issue

Hi Buddies,

Need a help, M located in India with Nokia Lumia 620, I sometimes get this error (below)
"Your country or region requires a strict Bing SafeSearch setting, which filters out results that might return adult contain"
Even if I have my SafeSearch selected "Off", Only works when I change my country to UK or US.
And also the local scout doesn't show up if the country is selected to "India". How to get rid of these problems
while keeping the country to India only.

Please Help !

 

Bing Safesearch

I cannot change settings in Safesearch. I know how to, t it will not work. It says that the default for my Region/location is strict but for the United Kingdom is should not be and it used to work a while ago.

 

Family settings impacting safesearch

Hi Joshua,

In order to help you with your concern about SafeSearch option, kindly answer the following questions first:

• What browser are you currently using?
• Does the issue happens to all browsers in your PC?
• What search engine are you utilizing when the issue occurred?

If you are using Bing as your search engine, then you may need to turn off the SafeSearch option by following the steps from this link:

Turn Bing SafeSearch on or off.

Kindly reply to this thread for us to help you further.

Regards.