topic Re: Browsing History in Broadband

Browsing History

Mancafe — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:18:04 GMT

Does anyone know whether the Sky Broadband/WiFi account owner can check the browsing history of all devices connected to it in the household?

Re: Browsing History

TimmyBGood — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:00:50 GMT

@Mancafe

Certainly not possible to see all browsing activities (and even expensive commercial systems cannot see traffic inside apps)

Sky Broadband Shield allows creation of a custom blocklist but doesn't, I think, generate a log of access attempts which get blocked.

Re: Browsing History

TimmyBGood — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:11:07 GMT

@Mancafe

It's perhaps worth noting that ISPs essentially do the bare minimum to comply with UK law in this area by having mandatory age restrictions by default: they basically don't want to get into the potentially murky area of household internet surveillance (which is also a significant technical challenge anyway)

Re: Browsing History

TimmyBGood — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:15:20 GMT

@Mancafe

If you really want to go down that route, you'd either need subscription to commercial per-device software installation (which is really rather intrusive) or a router/cloud service which intercepts and logs traffic: those are typically intended for school or similar environments and priced accordingly.