Parental Controls on the Mac sucks. For my use case, anyway. I need to block a small number of sites (like youtube) and clearly adult sites as well. Parental Controls as a minimum blocks any https site in existence, including google, facebook, etc. and you need essentially approve every web site they go to which is wasting a lot of time.
Do know how to make Parental Controls on Mac really work, or what other product can be used for this purpose?
Best Answer
That all SSL connections are blocked by OSX Parental Controls is apparently a bug, not a feature. There is a discussion in the Apple Support Communities (an HTTPS page, ironically). The best help in there comes from this CNET article.
To summarize, possible solutions are
resetting the filter setting by deleting
/Library/Managed Preferences/<user>/com.apple.familycontrols.contentfilter.plistpromoting the affected account to Administrator and demoting it again
or (least desirable)