Yandex family search. How to disable family filter in Yandex

The family filter in the Yandex search engine removes sites containing obscene language and adult content from search results, including direct requests. And it is designed to protect children and teenagers from information that is undesirable at their age.

However, adult users sometimes need to remove this restriction for advanced data search, analysis of the promotion of their own web resource, testing of some filtering application, etc.

From this article you will learn how to disable the family filter in Yandex in the search engine options, in the DNS server settings, in the system HOST file.

Shutdown

To remove an installed filter, clear your cache and cookies first. In most popular browsers, this command is launched by the hotkey combination - Ctrl + Shift + Del.

Attention! In the settings panel, be sure to enable the “cache” and “cookies” items in the list of elements.

You can also remove Yandex service cookies on the page yandex.ru/internet/.

Load it in your browser and scroll down with your mouse wheel. Click the " " link.

In the pop-up panel, click the “Delete...” button of the same name.

Once cleaning is complete, follow these steps:

1. Go to the search results settings page - https://yandex.ru/search/customize.

2. Find the “Page Filtering” block in the tab (second column of options).

3. Enable another filter in the panel:

Moderate - exclusion from listing “adult” websites if the request is not explicitly aimed at searching for them.
Without restrictions - displaying all pages available in the search engine database for the typed query.

4. At the bottom of the options tab, click the “Save and return to search” button for the filtering reconfiguration to take effect.

Now you can start searching for information without any restrictions.

If the filter does not turn off...

Then your computer's filtering may have been configured differently. Try one of the following methods.

Attention! Before modifying options in the network connection panel and HOST file, be sure to ensure that they actually contain family filter settings. Otherwise, there is no point in reconfiguring them: this means that the reason for the inability to disable filtering lies in other programs, add-ons or add-ons.

Method #1: DNS address

The meaning of this method is to change the IP address of the DNS server from Yandex, operating in filter mode, to an alternative server without restrictions or Yandex DNS, but another without a filter.

1. Go to the official Yandex DNS page - dns.yandex.ru.

3. In relation to our task - shutdown - it is necessary to use “Basic” (recommended!) or Safe.

4. Copy two IP addresses (lower and upper) DNS with the required operating mode (for example, “Basic”) into a text file or write them down on a piece of paper.

5. Close your browser.

6. Left-click the “display” icon in the tray (right side of the taskbar).

7. In the “Current Connections” window, click “Network Center...”.

8. In the “View active networks” block, click “Local Area Connection”.

9. In the “Status” configuration window, click the “Properties” button.

10. Click on the line “Protocol version 4”.

11. Click “Property”.

12. Check the settings: if DNS addresses with a family filter are specified, continue to follow the steps in this instruction; if not, try using another method.

13. In the second block of the panel, enable the “Use the following DNS server addresses” option.

14. In the first line “Preferred” enter the first DNS address copied from the website dns.yandex.ru.

And in the second “Alternative”, respectively, the second IP.

15. Click "OK".

16. Launch your browser, open a search engine. It will display queries without filtering content.

Method #2: HOSTS file

Sometimes network administrators and customizers add network connection add-ons to the HOST file, including a filtering mode. For example, it may look like this: 213.180.193.56 yandex.ru

(redirect to familysearch.yandex.ru)

To neutralize these modifications, do the following:

1. Go to the directory:

Drive C → Windows → System32 → drivers → etc

2. Right-click on the system HOST file.

3. Select "Open" from the menu.

4. In the “Program Selection” panel, click on the “Notepad” icon and click “OK”.

5. Remove the search engine mode redirect add-on with family filter.

6. In the Notepad program menu, open the “File” section. Click “Save” to commit the edits to the file.

7. Restart your PC. Check the search engine.

Method No. 3: antivirus software settings

Many antivirus programs come with a Parental Control option. In terms of functionality, it is similar to the Yandex family filter. Also filters out “adult” content. Check its activation status in the settings panel of your antivirus or firewall and, if necessary, deactivate (disable).

When setting up filtering for the Yandex search engine, initially use its options located on the page https://yandex.ru/search/customize.

If switching to the basic “No restrictions” mode does not give any results, check the settings of the DNS server, the HOST file, and the status of the “Parental Controls” add-on in the security software. Delete all found redirects (see methods No. 1-No. 3).

The Yandex search engine allows you to find almost any information; this also includes sites that are prohibited for viewing by a certain circle of people, that is, minors.

In order to protect children from this, the developers have provided for the creation of a results filtering mode to hide resources that are undesirable for viewing.

Available options and their features:

The moderate method is a method of selecting and excluding links to sites for people over 18 years of age, unless the request explicitly stated that you want to find adult content (this option works automatically).
Family excludes links of similar content from the results displayed on the page completely, and, importantly, removes addresses that contain obscene language and obscene comments.
No restrictions - this search method speaks for itself and finds absolutely all possible matches, filtering only by the user's key phrase.

“Family Search” makes it possible for parents and other elders responsible for raising the younger generation to limit access to sites whose content contradicts Russian legislation, age limits and moral and ethical standards. After all, it is important for the owners of such sites to advertise themselves, but doing this through people who are not interested does not make sense, so the solution should be this: prevent access for minor users.

For example, when using this type of filtering and the presented opportunity, resources containing “adult” materials and content with scenes of violence are completely removed from search results for a site. Such films, books, video materials have a strict age limit and should not be shown to children, because this can disrupt their worldview, break psychological stability, and instill the wrong values and views. Which is fraught with consequences for the future generation, because now it’s hard to protect a child from all this. But Yandex services are aimed at helping in many situations, including this one.

The purpose of the project and the use of the filter is the complete absence of access to prohibited content, which is subject to censorship by search algorithms that have learned to accurately and clearly identify materials of an adult nature and information about violence. Once on this list, owners try to break through in search results by purchasing a large number of domains and creating duplicate sites, but the machines work on the principles of artificial intelligence and learn like any neural network. Consequently, at the moment, they have reached such a level that they distribute sites into filtering levels in a matter of seconds, all bypass algorithms have been studied and are prevented at the root.

If six months ago one could start arguing about the emergence and effectiveness of such a method that controls the output of results and removes everything unnecessary and prohibited, now all services have so improved their operating principle that they have learned to recognize any information in various forms, types, extensions and filter data for different groups very quickly and easily. You can find such sites using special words that can signal to the search engine what information is being sought.

Filtration systems become more stringent over time and “learn” from their mistakes. Therefore, if the information selection algorithm did not work correctly, and you saw something that you did not want to see, then write to the support service. This way you can help improve the service’s performance faster than it can do it itself. Thank you in advance!

How to enable family search mode?

To enable and organize the operation of the “Family Search” content selection method in accordance with the age limit, you should go and select this method of ensuring search security in the “Setting up results” item. This can be done by going to the page address: https://yandex.ru/search/customize.

At the bottom of the page there will be such an item.

To select, click on the required option.

Also, at any time you will have the opportunity to change the method of selecting search results and disable the strict mode intended for children.

Setting up a child-safe filter in Yandex

You must connect this function via the network as follows:

Select the “Family Search” results sorting mode in the search page settings.
Then set up the Yandex.DNS service: write the IP address of the search engine with the mode: add data to the hosts file.

To avoid updating and disabling this protection method, enable mandatory saving of cookies in the settings of the browser you are using.

Step-by-step instructions for setting up the mode on the search page of the first computer:

Go to the “Setting up results” section of the Yandex search engine.
Mark the mode by clicking on the field that says: “Family Search”. It will highlight yellow.
Confirm by clicking the “Save” field.

To ensure that the changes are applied and the Yandex search engine filtering works well, you need to copy and paste an entry into a special file called “hosts”, which is responsible for the operation of browsers and site policies:

213.180.193.56 is the address of a search engine with search protection mode enabled.

If in the “Family Search” mode in Yandex you see a page containing “adult” content or obscene language, please report this to the support service.

How to disable (remove) the family filter in Yandex?

If “Family Search” is enabled as a filtering method, and you need to change it or disable it completely to carry out the further work process, then you can do it as follows:

Go to the “Setting up search results” page of the Yandex search engine.
Select the optimal and necessary mode to continue working in the “Page Filtering” section.
Confirm acceptance of the changes by clicking on the “Save” button.
You can now return to the search page.

It happens that changes are not taken into account when you continue working and you discover that the “Family Search” method is disabled. This is most likely due to stored data in the hosts file or temporary information and information from sites, which is stored by default in the long-term memory of a computer or other device.

Full cleaning process:

Check the host file and clear the information.
Clear the cache of the browser you are using.
Clear cookies.
Delete your browsing history, marking all cleaning items and conditions.

There are situations when people start searching on the Internet for how to disable the family filter in Yandex.

They download a browser with the limited search function enabled, or accidentally turn it on while using it and then, over time, notice that the search results are somehow incomplete.

Yes, this function is designed to prevent children from being exposed to intimate materials, cruelty, violence and the like. But often the system defines completely ordinary materials as unacceptable and does not show them in the results.

This happens precisely when using yandex.ru, so there is a need to turn off this function and use a full search.

Contents:

Shutdown procedure

In fact, this procedure is quite simple and can be performed as quickly as possible. You need to follow a series of simple steps:

Go to Yandex, enter any request. Scroll down the page to the system links (Keyboard, Settings, Applications, etc.).
There you need to click on the link “Settings”.

Clue: If you are unable to find these links for some reason, please follow this link. This will take you to the same settings page that we need in this case.

In the settings window you need to find the section. There will be three options available: "Family Search", "Moderate filter" And "No limits". The button that glows yellow is selected. In Figure 2 this is exactly "Family Search". So, you need to click on any of the two remaining filtering options, but not on family.

After that all you have to do is press the button "Save and return" at the bottom of the page.

You will immediately see that the results are very different from what they were before the settings.

Important! To save them and not have to perform the above procedure every time you search, log in to your account on yandex.ru. After this, it is advisable not to leave it. This is especially true if you use the TOR browser, or other means for anonymous surfing.

But there are times when all this does not help and family search for some reason continues to function. We will consider what to do in such cases below.

If it doesn't help

There are some simple tips that help in such cases. They are as follows:

(most often there is a corresponding item, if you cannot find it, there is probably information about this in the “Help” section);
disable all programs that may block some functions, including antiviruses (especially if they have parental controls), Safety Minder, NetPolice, and the like;
restart your computer.

If you don't know how family was enabled in the first place, someone may have done it for you using or settings. These options also need to be checked.

Disabling via DNS

To disable Family Sharing via DNS, do the following:

Go to "Network Control Center...". The easiest way to do this is by right-clicking on the network connections icon in the tray and selecting the appropriate option from the drop-down list.
In the window that opens, click on your connection in the block "View active networks".

In the next window, click the “Properties” button.
Next we find in the list "Internet Protocol Version 4...", click on it. The “Properties” button becomes active. Click on it too.
We find the section concerning in the next window. If the addresses listed there are as shown in Figure 4 (far right window), then family mode is indeed installed. To change it, for example, to the basic one, you need to register 77.88.8.1 as the preferred server and 77.88.8.8 as the alternative.

After that, click the “OK” button and close all windows.

If even then it does not become normal, try restarting your computer.

Clue: To install safe mode, that is, a moderate filter, you need to register 77.88.8.2 as the preferred server and 77.88.8.88 as the alternative server.

You can also check if such a search is specified in the hosts file. To find it, go sequentially to the following folders: “Computer” -> “C:” (or other system drive letter) -> “Windows” -> “System32” -> “drivers” -> “etc”.

Yandex is the number one search engine in Russia and it has practically no competitors in this field. You can, of course, think of Google, but in our country its audience is much smaller. In order to make it as convenient as possible for Internet users to use search, it periodically makes changes and adds new functions to the search engine. In February 2013, for International Safer Internet Day, the company prepared a so-called family filter.

What is it for? As you know, at the moment you can find absolutely any “strawberry” on the Internet. If you don’t want your child or younger brother to look at all this, you need to enable a family filter, which simply removes all “adult” sites from the search results, thereby preventing your child from looking at obscene sites. The filter really works and works very well.

If you downloaded a browser where this filter is already enabled or someone simply turned it on for you, disabling it will be as easy as shelling pears. To do this, go to Yandex and enter the desired request. On the right side of the screen you will see a small menu. Click on the "Settings" section.

We see many different settings. They don’t interest us now, so let’s scroll down. The penultimate one we see is the “Search Area” subsection. We set it to “Moderate filter” or “No restrictions”. The last step is to click on the “Save and return to search” button, which is located at the very bottom of the screen.

If you suddenly disable the filter, but some sites are still not shown in the search, you need to reset your browser cache and log out, and then log in to your Yandex account again.

The filter is turned on in the same order. In addition, if you suddenly want to completely restrict your child from “adult” materials, you can make the start page family.yandex.ru with a built-in family filter.