Windows 10: Microsoft Family Safety not blocking websites properly

We use Microsoft Family Safety settings for our son. Recently we noticed that some of the websites we thought were blocked are accessible when he is logged in to his account. Previously the block was working.


When I go to visit his activity, the most recent date I can see is September 29, almost a week ago, so I can't look up a site and click the block option after he visits it.

I tried switching to only allowing certain sites rather than blocking others, but even if a website is there such as clever.com, if he goes to a page within the site, it still blocks him and he has to request permission every time. Obviously, this is not a workable solution for online school, so I have to try to block only certain sites and as I stated above, that isn't working.


He is using a PC with Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge. I am posting this question from a different computer using Windows 8.1.

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Microsoft Family safety not blocking websites on the block list.

Microsoft Family safety not blocking websites on the block list.

It doesn't seem work at all actually!

I put www.youtube.com on blocking list but still working on Firefox browser!

please help me!

 

Family Safety Not Blocking Websites on Google Chrome

Family safety has suddenly stopped blocking any website on the blocked list when using Google Chrome. It still blocks them on Microsoft Edge but Edge additionally blocks Google websites such as Gmail and Google Docs even though they are on the allowed list.

I have tried removing and adding back the account but it did not help. Any advice on fixing this issue will be much appreciated.

 

Microsoft Family safety (Web Filtering/Websites blocking) Issue

Hello,

I was able to setup the microsoft family safety account. I've both parent and kid account running. I bought a laptop and a windows phone for my kid. I applied that account and it seems like the family safety is working in laptop only. So, when I add certain
websites to block list, it blocks in the laptop and when I tried opening in windows 8.1 phone it doesn't block that particular website.

The laptop has two users, one of them is my as a parent and another one is my kid. So, if I add a website under blobk list in familysafety.microsoft.com I can see that it blocks in laptop when I switch the user and try to access it. But, no matter what I
always have access to those blocked sites in windows phone. Windows phone has primary microsoft account of my kid so it is a child account and the phone is synced with microsoft account.

Solution I tried:

I did factory reset (for windows phone that I'm having issue with) and re-signin with my kid account, which I'm controlling. (Didn't work)

Because of this issue, a question came to my mind which is "Is it actually possible to block certain websites in windows phone using microsoft family safety assuming that I'm logged in to the windows phone using microsoft account?"

I would definitely accept any alternatives of blocking certain websites using microsoft family safety.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.