Free Adult-Content Blocker for Android

DNS blockers leak, extensions get disabled

Most adult-content blockers fall into two camps. The first is DNS-level (CleanBrowsing, OpenDNS Family Shield): cheap, fast, but a kid who knows what they’re doing can switch DNS in the WiFi settings in fifteen seconds. The second is browser extensions: same problem, the extension can be disabled from the settings panel.

A third camp — paid services like Bark, Net Nanny, Covenant Eyes — charges £10–£15 a month for what is, in essence, a curated block-list plus a parent dashboard. The block-list is the load-bearing piece. The dashboard is a wrapper.

Block-list baked into the browser

Hedgehog includes the adult-content block-list maintained by the Indian Department of Telecommunications — a state-level list updated to cover roughly 800–1,500 adult domains spanning the global mainstream plus a long tail of regional and mirror sites. The list is loaded into Hedgehog’s built-in MITM proxy. Every page request your child’s phone makes passes through that filter.

The browser is the filter. There is no separate VPN profile to install, no DNS setting to maintain, no extension that can be disabled. If your child uninstalls Hedgehog the protection goes with it — but you’ll see the icon is gone, which is more honest than a silent extension-disable bypass.

The same architecture handles ads, trackers, YouTube, and TikTok — one filter, multiple block-lists.

Free, working, no setup

• Network-layer block of mainstream adult sites (Pornhub, XVideos, RedTube, xHamster, etc.)
• Long tail of regional / mirror adult sites — the same list catches the alternatives a kid would Google for
• Adult-ad networks blocked at the same time — no “Free Cam” banner ads on otherwise-safe sites
• No monthly subscription — ever
• No account, no parent dashboard, no telemetry — we don’t need to know your child’s browsing habits to keep the filter working
• Works without root, without device-admin permissions, without a VPN profile your kid might delete