Windows 10: Bing leads adoption of safe preference for child safety

Brink · Dec 11, 2014

At Bing, we’re committed to making search better and safer for kids. Bing is the first major search engine to support a proposed new web safety standard known as safe preference. Websites and services that adopt this method only display content they have classified as safe when participating browsers communicate the user’s safe preference to them.

We realize that controlling your children’s safety settings can be challenging. With so many devices, browsers and search engines, you usually have to go to multiple pages to turn on safe search on their behalf. The safe preference method is designed to make controls easier and more consistent for parents. It offers one standardized way for users to communicate their safe preferences to websites and online services.

Here’s how it works with Bing:

Parents need to turn on Windows Family Safety for their child’s account.

Participating browsers recognize that parental control is turned on and indicate to Bing that the user prefers to receive safer results.

Bing respects this preference and sends back only results we’ve classified as non-adult.

The safe preference method is currently supported by Internet Explorer (10+) and Firefox. Using a browser that supports safe preference will help Bing deliver filtered results consistently. Once parental controls are enabled, here’s the message kids using supported browsers see in their settings page:

The safety setting becomes more effective for parents and children as more websites and browsers adopt the safe preference method. We hope that more browsers, websites and services will embrace this method in the near future to help make controls simpler and more reliable, so that we collectively help build a safer web for our children.

For more information about the “safe” HTTP Preference, you can refer to the Internet draft specification submitted to the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards track committee.

– The Bing Team
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Marisa 8A · Dec 11, 2014

Family Safety Settings in Windows 8 but NOT in Windows 10!

I am outraged after upgrading to Windows 10 because now my child's safety online is being threatened, unlike in Windows 8 where she was completely safe. After upgrading/paying the $.53 fee to setup family safety settings for a child I have come to find
out that my child cannot be limited to an ALLOW LIST ONLY while browsing. She is UNSAFE! I browsed on her account to see what content is/isn't blocked and I managed to get on **** toy/**** dating/porn star/celebrity websites that are INAPPROPRIATE even with
EXPLICIT CONTENT blocked in safety settings!! If explicit content is searched for in bing, for example, this content will be blocked but if direct websites are typed in this will not be blocked!
I received an email from Microsoft 2 days ago that claimed that they are working on this issue but I am going to continue to sound the alarm until something is done. In these days of social media we as parents have to protect our children!

ChickRobot · Dec 11, 2014

Any idea if there's an add-on for the HTC Radar Win7 phone for safer, child friendly web browsing?

It would be great if there was an official add-on to make IE and the Bing search tool more child friendly. There's a few apps that offer safety, but nothing to override IE. Does anyone know if one is in the works or already out there?

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