How to Block Adult Content on Your Home Network
Per-device filtering versus router-level filtering, and which one actually fits a household with kids.
Updated July 2026 · 6 min read
Two ways to filter a household
There are two broad strategies for filtering an entire home: point your router's DNS at a filtering service, or enroll each device individually. NoorI is built around the second approach, and there's a reason for that beyond convenience.
The router-level tradeoff
Pointing your router at a filtered DNS resolver covers every device on the network without installing anything — including smart TVs, game consoles, and guest devices. The tradeoff: your router sees one household, not individual people. You lose per-child rules, per-child schedules, and per-child activity — everyone gets the same policy, and any device that leaves the house (a phone on cellular data, a laptop at a friend's) is completely unfiltered the moment it's off your WiFi.
The per-device tradeoff
Enrolling each device individually — NoorI's approach — means each family member can have their own rules, their own schedule, and their own activity log, and protection follows the device wherever it goes, not just on your home WiFi. The tradeoff is upfront setup time: each device needs the five-minute enrollment described in our quick start guide.
What we recommend
Enroll every personal device — phones, laptops, tablets — individually, since that's where per-child rules and off-network protection actually matter. For shared or guest devices like a living-room smart TV, a lighter, un-personalized layer of protection is a reasonable trade if that device never leaves the house. The important thing is that the devices your kids actually carry around are covered everywhere they go, not just at home.