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Victims of betrayal desperately want to protect their families from harmful material. Cleanbrowsing is one way to filter your internet to keep your family safe.

Daniel Cid, founder of Cleanbrowsing, joins Anne on the free The Betrayal Trauma Reccovery Podcast to empower families to stay safe from online harms.

What Is Cleanbrowsing?

Cleanbrowsing is software designed to protect children and adults from harmful online material.

If you need support after discovering your husband’s exploitative materials use, attend a Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group Session TODAY.

Transcript: Cleanbrowsing DNS – How One Mom Protected Her Children Online

Anne: Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery, this is Anne.

I have Daniel Cid with me today. He is the founder of Cleanbrowsing and I’ve asked him on to help me resolve my router issues, in regard to how do I protect my router at home. Then we’ll also be talking about how to protect our families a little bit more. We are very happy to have him on, welcome Daniel.

Daniel: Thank you, glad to be here.

Anne: Daniel tell me about how Cleanbrowsing started?

Daniel: To explain how we started, I’ll have to go back just a little bit further in my life, just to give you some more context.

I’ve been working with computer security pretty much my whole adult life. As a software engineer my main job for many years was actually helping people in companies respond to computer crime and hacking incidents and using software to improve their security. That got me to see a lot of the bad part of internet. And that made me really paranoid about how we use computers and how we can protect ourselves while you’re online.

Safe Browsing Is Cleanbrowsing

Going back 3 years ago, my oldest child, he was 8 years old, he wanted an ipad, an iphone, a laptop, everything. We thought that a laptop would be a safer way for him to get started online. For him to learn about tech, about coding. We had to pay much closer attention to proper content. How about things like exploitative material, extreme violence. I didn’t want any of my kids to have any exposure to that. I wanted to provide them a clean and safe browsing experience. That’s where the name came from, Cleanbrowsing. I wanted them to get the beauty part of the internet without the dirty side of it.

Back then I tried a bunch of tools and none of them actually did what I thought they were supposed to. In fact, even some of the most popular at the time, didn’t do the basics of even enforcing safe search on Google. So, you went to Google and type in bad words and you’d see all the dirty images.

Cleanbrowsing Helps Families

That didn’t give me confidence at all that I could give to my child, let’s say a laptop, and he’d be able to use the web safely, right? I kind of decided well, I’ll try to build something better. Something that I can use for my own family.

Going into just a little bit technical right. I visited every website on the internet and tried to identify if any website had nudity, had indication of violence content, had exploitative material, curse words. It’s kind of similar to identifying and looking for malware, but I was looking for these other variables.

Anne: So, basically, you’re like a super genius?

Daniel: No, I’m not a genius at all, I just love security, just love to code, and I love to solve problems. And I felt something that struck deep down to me. I was like no, that’s something I need to solve for myself and if I am having this problem I assume a lot of parents are having the same problem. I just start scanning every website in the world and tagging them. Easy site PG, easy site PG13, easy site safe for work, not safe for work. And that