Which websites your child can visit
3Eyes starts with the internet switched off. Apart from a short list of everyday sites we add for you, every website is blocked until you allow it — and allowing one takes a couple of seconds.
An allow list, not a block list. You never have to guess which sites are bad or keep up with new ones. If you didn’t allow it, your child can’t open it.
Why it works this way
Most filters try to keep a list of every harmful site on the internet. That list is out of date the moment it’s written — new sites appear every day, and a determined child only has to find one the filter hasn’t heard of yet.
3Eyes turns the problem around. Instead of blocking the bad sites, it allows only the good ones. The list you have to maintain is small, it’s made of sites you actually chose, and nothing new can slip through it.
What’s allowed to begin with
So your child isn’t staring at a blocked page the moment you finish installing, a small set of everyday sites is allowed for every child from the start:
- google.com and bing.com — for searching
- wikipedia.org — for looking things up
- gmail.com — for email
Alongside those sits a short list of behind-the-scenes services that ordinary websites need in order to load at all — the places pages fetch their fonts, images and code from, and the “prove you’re not a robot” checks. They aren’t destinations and your child can’t browse them; without them, sites you have allowed would load half-broken.
You won’t see any of these on your list and you don’t need to manage them. The list you see is the one you control — the sites you’ve added for your own child.
Two ways to allow a site
Everything else — their school portal, a game, a homework tool, a video site — needs to be added once. There are two ways to do it, and both take seconds.
1. Add it yourself, before they need it
- Go to Websites your child can visit when you’re signed in.
- Click Add Website and type the address, for example schoology.com.
- Click Add. That’s it — the site works on their computer within a minute or two.
This is the calm way to do it. If you know your child is starting a new class or a new game, add the site in advance and they never see a blocked page at all.
2. Approve it when they ask
When your child opens a site that isn’t on the list, they see a blocked page with a button to ask you for it. You get an alert on your phone the moment they ask, and the request also sits on your Pending Requests page. Approve or decline with one tap, from wherever you are; approving adds the site to their list immediately.
The same alerts cover screen time. When your child runs out of time and asks for more, that request reaches your phone too, so you can say yes or no without going to the computer.
In practice this is how most sites get added. You don’t have to predict what your child will need — you just answer when they ask, which usually takes a few seconds.
Choices when you add a site
Every site you allow can be plain and permanent, or tightened up:
- Add for the whole family — allow it for every child at once instead of one at a time.
- Remove after an expiration time — allow a site for a set number of hours, then have it disappear on its own. Useful for a one-off school project.
- Daily time limit — allow a site but cap how long it can be used each day.
Leave the last two at zero and the site is simply allowed, with no time restrictions.
Changes take effect on your child’s computer the next time it syncs — usually within a minute or two of saving.
A tip for school logins
School sites often sign in through a separate provider, so one login can quietly involve two or three different addresses. If your child can reach the school site but the login fails, it’s usually the sign-in provider that still needs allowing — addresses like classlink.com or clever.com.
The quickest fix is to have your child try the login and send the request from the blocked page. That way you approve exactly the address that was blocked, rather than guessing at it.