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It can be useful at home for parents with kids as well. A decent number of people use Pi-hole, NextDNS, or some other DNS blocker service.

Either way, ultimately the result of not offering the option will more likely be getting blocked entirely, than workers being freed from the shackles of SafeSearch.

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What's even the point of DNS based safe search? Anyone can change their DNS and use DNS over https, how does DNS safe search work in that instance?

Also blocking the search is pretty weird, what prevents me of typing the URL directly?

> Anyone can change their DNS and use DNS over https

Not if the machine is locked down. Blocking all search engines is not a feasible approach, though, hence the Safe Search mechanism.

> Also blocking the search is pretty weird, what prevents me of typing the URL directly?

That URL can be blocked at the router level, but one can still see cached search engine images when safe search is off.

Enterprise and school devices often configure browsers to not allow modifying DoH settings and configure the OS to not accept unapproved programs like sideloaded browsers that may not obey that device policy.

It can be used to keep bad content away from kids. DNS over TLS can be blocked on the network router / firewall and DNS safe search enforced by forwarding lookups to something like Adguard

There are at least a few 8 year olds who have yet to learn what DNS is.

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