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Parental Control Certification 2025

AV-Comparatives Parental Control Test

AV-Comparatives offers certification for parental control software, evaluating products against stringent criteria. Each solution is tested with 1,000 URLs containing adult content and 200 child-safe URLs. Starting in 2025, to achieve certification, a product must block at least 95% of adult websites, have zero false positives on child-friendly websites, and be free from significant unresolved bugs or design flaws.

For more details, you can access the certification reports here: https://www.av-comparatives.org/testmethod/parental-control-reviews/

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Parental Control Certification 2024

AV-Comparatives Parental Control Test

AV-Comparatives offers certification for parental control software, evaluating products against stringent criteria. Each solution is tested with 1,000 URLs containing adult content and 100 child-safe URLs. To achieve the 2024 certification, a product must block at least 98% of adult websites, have zero false positives on child-friendly websites, and be free from significant unresolved bugs or design flaws.

For more details, you can access the certification reports here: https://www.av-comparatives.org/testmethod/parental-control-reviews/

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Parental Control Certification 2023

AV-Comparatives Parental Control Test

AV-Comparatives provides certification for parental control software. Parental control solutions are tested against 1,000 URLs with adult content, and 100 child-safe URLs. In order to be certified, a product must block at least 98% of pornographic websites, have zero false alarms on child-friendly websites, and have no severe unresolved bugs (or design flaws) discovered during the review. 

The 2023 certification reports can be found here: https://www.av-comparatives.org/news/parental-control-certification-test-2023/

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Parental Control Certification 2022

AV-Comparatives Parental Control Test

AV-Comparatives provides certification for parental control software. Parental control solutions are tested against 1,000 URLs with adult content, and 100 child-safe URLs. In order to be certified, a product must block at least 98% of pornographic websites, have zero false alarms on child-friendly websites, and have no severe unresolved bugs (or design flaws) discovered during the review. 

The certification reports can be found here: https://www.av-comparatives.org/parental-control/

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Parental Control Certification 2021

AV-Comparatives Parental Control Test

AV-Comparatives provides certification for parental control software. Parental control solutions are tested against 1,000 URLs with undesirable adult content, and 100 child-safe URLs. In order to be certified, a product must block at least 98% of pornographic websites, have zero false alarms on child-friendly websites, and have no severe unresolved bugs (or design flaws) discovered during the review.

The certification reports can be found here: https://www.av-comparatives.org/parental-control/

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Parental Control Certification 2020

AV-Comparatives Parental Control Test

AV-Comparatives provides certification for parental control software. Parental control solutions are tested against 2,000 URLs with undesirable content in different categories, and 200 child-safe URLs. In order to be certified, a product must block at least 98% of pornographic websites, have no more than a few false alarms on child-friendly websites, and have no severe unresolved bugs (or design flaws) discovered during the review.

The certification reports can be found here: https://www.av-comparatives.org/parental-control/

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Parental Control Certification Test 2019

AV-Comparatives Parental Control Test

AV-Comparatives provides certification for parental control software. In order to be certified, a product must block at least 98% of pornographic websites, have no more than a few false alarms on child-friendly websites, and have no severe unresolved bugs (or design flaws) discovered during the review. A certification is valid for one year and vendors can apply for certification once a year. Six vendors submitted their products for certification in 2019, of which only one reached the requirements.

Parental Control Certification Test 2018

AV-Comparatives Parental Control Test

AV-Comparatives provides certification for parental control software. Parental control solutions are tested against 2,000 URLs with undesirable content in different categories, and 100 child-safe URLs. In order to be certified, a product must block at least 98% of pornographic websites, have no more than a few false alarms on child-friendly websites, and have no severe unresolved bugs (or design flaws) discovered during the review.

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Parental Control Certification 2017

AV-Comparatives Parental Control Test

Three parental control solutions certified

AV-Comparatives provides certification for parental control software. Parental control solutions are tested against 2,000 URLs with undesirable content in different categories, and 100 child-safe URLs. In order to be certified, a product must block at least 98% of pornographic websites, have no more than a few false alarms on child-friendly websites, and have no severe unresolved bugs (or design flaws) discovered during the review.

The certification reports can be found here: https://www.av-comparatives.org/parental-control/

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