List of Sites to Block for Kids: Copy-Ready Blacklist by Age + Category

You searched for a list of sites to block for kids because you want something concrete — not another lecture about screen time. This guide gives you exactly that: a category framework that explains the risk types, a copy-ready blacklist of representative domains grouped by category, age-tiered recommendations for early childhood through teens, and a clear way to enforce the list on Android and iOS without rebuilding it on every device. Use it as a starting point you can paste into a parental control app, refine for your child's age, and update as the web changes. Pair the list with conversations and downtime — blocking is one layer, not a complete solution. Expect pushback — how kids bypass internet filters covers the eleven common routes.

How to Use This List (Categories vs. Specific Domains)

There are two parallel ways to keep kids off harmful sites, and the best parental setups use both.

• Category filtering. A website filter that ships with pre-built risk categories — adult, drugs, violence, gambling — catches new domains automatically as they appear.
• Custom blacklist. A specific-domain list closes the niche gaps category filters miss: a forum your kid's friends mentioned, a specific gambling site advertised on a streamer's channel, or a school-policy URL you want to permit.

A category filter scales because the web spawns new adult and gambling domains daily, and a static URL list goes stale within months. But categories miss long-tail risks — random shock sites, niche image boards, recently-launched stranger-chat clones — so a custom blacklist remains essential.

The age tiers in this article (early childhood, pre-teen, teen) are starting points. Lower the threshold for a sensitive child and raise it as a teen demonstrates judgment. And remember: blocking is one layer. Pair it with downtime windows, app limits, browsing history review, and ongoing conversations.

Categories of Sites Every Parent Should Block

Every credible parental-safety guide converges on the same risk types, and using categories as your framework keeps you ahead of every new domain that spins up. Treat the list below as buckets — every URL you ever add to a custom blacklist should fit into one of them.

• Adult and pornography sites. Exposure shapes early sexual scripts and harms development; default-block for every age tier.
• Gambling and online betting sites. Sportsbooks, online casinos, and slot-style web games normalize risk-taking and quietly target underage users with frictionless deposits.
• Adult chat and random video chat platforms. Stranger-pairing sites create direct grooming exposure — the harm is the connection itself, not just the content.
• Dating and hookup sites. Even age-gated portals are routinely bypassed; block at the browser layer.
• Violence, gore, and shock content. Graphic imagery causes lasting intrusive memories in younger viewers and desensitizes older ones.
• Drugs and illegal substance marketplaces. Both clearnet paraphernalia retailers and dark-pattern marketplaces normalize purchase access.
• Unmoderated forums and image boards. /b/-style boards, fringe subreddits, and so-called free-speech clones host hate content, doxxing, and harassment campaigns.
• Piracy, torrent, and cracked-software sites. These pages are the single largest source of consumer malware and bundled adware.
• Self-harm and pro-eating-disorder communities. Pro-ana, thinspo, and self-harm tribute pages cause measurable mental-health harm, especially for pre-teens and teens.
• Phishing, scam, and crypto-fraud sites. Fake giveaways, crypto airdrops, and Roblox or Fortnite free-skins pages drain accounts and harvest credentials.

Two practical notes when you apply this framework. First, some categories are absolutes regardless of age — adult, drug marketplaces, self-harm communities, and scam pages — while others (dating, gambling, unmoderated forums) shift from absolute block to conditional access as a teen approaches adulthood. Second, the same risk type often appears in multiple form factors: a gambling brand lives at a web URL, but it also ships an app and a Discord community, so a browser block alone leaves two doors open. Categories help you spot the pattern; enforcement has to cover all three doors.

Copy-Ready Blacklist: Specific Domains to Block by Category

Paste these representative domains into your parental control app's custom blacklist field. Include both the root (example.com) and the www. variant, plus common TLD swaps (.com, .net, .tv, .cc) when a brand operates multiple mirrors. The list is not exhaustive — new clones launch monthly — so combine it with a category filter for moving coverage.

Adult content

• pornhub.com
• xvideos.com
• xnxx.com
• redtube.com
• youporn.com
• onlyfans.com
• chaturbate.com
• stripchat.com

Gambling and online betting

• bet365.com
• draftkings.com
• fanduel.com
• bovada.lv
• stake.com
• pokerstars.com
• bovada.com

Random video chat and stranger chat

After Omegle shut down in 2023, replacement sites filled the gap quickly. Block the well-known clones:

• chatroulette.com
• chathub.cam
• emeraldchat.com
• chatrandom.com
• ome.tv
• coomeet.com
• monkey.app (web portal)

Dating app web portals

• tinder.com
• bumble.com
• hinge.co
• match.com
• okcupid.com
• grindr.com

Shock, gore, and graphic violence

• bestgore.fun
• documentingreality.com
• theync.com
• kaotic.com
• liveleak-style archive mirrors

Drug marketplaces and paraphernalia

• grasscity.com
• dankgeek.com
• smokecartel.com
• clearnet dispensary delivery sites in your region — add individually as you spot them in ads

Unmoderated forums and image boards

• 4chan.org
• 8kun.top
• kiwifarms (and current mirror domain)
• ifunny.co (lightly moderated user content)

Piracy, torrent, and streaming piracy

• thepiratebay.org
• 1337x.to
• rarbg-style mirrors
• fmovies (current TLD changes monthly)
• sflix.to
• soap2day mirrors

Self-harm and pro-ana communities

• myproana.com
• prettythin-style forums
• thinspo tag aggregators on Tumblr-mirror sites

Most self-harm communities migrate between platforms, so pair the list with category filtering for adult and violence plus keyword alerts on terms like pro-ana, thinspo, and common self-harm slang.

Formatting for fast paste. When you drop the list into a parental control app:

1. One domain per line — no commas, no bullets in the input field itself.
2. Include both example.com and www.example.com.
3. Add the obvious TLD swaps for sites with .tv, .cc, or .lv mirrors.
4. Re-check every 60–90 days; piracy and stranger-chat domains rotate constantly.

Age-Tiered Blocklists: Early Childhood, Pre-Teen, and Teen

A teen with a fully locked browser will reverse-engineer the proxy by week two; a kindergartener with an unrestricted YouTube has bigger problems by Tuesday. Tier the list by developmental stage.

Early childhood (under 8)

Use an allowlist mindset — assume the open web is off-limits and explicitly approve sites. Block all of:

• Every category in Section 1 without exception
• All social platforms (Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, Facebook)
• YouTube outside the YouTube Kids app plus a parent-approved allowlist
• Any site with user-generated content or open comment sections
• Free game portals (poki, crazygames) — most carry adult ads in the side rails

Pre-teens (8–12)

Block the full risk-category framework: adult, gambling, dating, random chat, shock, drugs, self-harm, piracy, and scams. Allow:

• Curated educational platforms (Khan Academy, Duolingo, BBC Bitesize)
• Creative tools (Scratch, Tinkercad)
• Streaming services with kids profiles enabled
• Parent-approved games and game wikis

Hold the line on social platforms and random-chat clones at this tier — pre-teens are the highest-risk group for grooming contact.

Teens (13–17)

Focus the blocklist on persistent absolutes: adult, gambling, drug marketplaces, self-harm communities, piracy, and scam or crypto-fraud sites. For social platforms, monitoring usually beats full blocking — a blanket TikTok block on a 16-year-old produces workarounds, not safety. Pair partial access with:

• Safe Search enforcement at the browser layer
• Browsing history review, especially for new domains and incognito attempts
• Real-time keyword alerts on the social and chat apps you do allow
• Conversations about gambling ads in livestreams, deepfake nudes, and crypto scams targeting teens

Migrating the list as kids age

Move sites off the blocklist deliberately, not by erosion. When your child demonstrates good judgment, unblock one category at a time with a one-week trial and a check-in conversation at the end. A site blocking and activity review view makes that trial measurable — you can see how an unblocked category actually gets used before deciding to keep it open.

Enforce the Blocklist with NexSpy in One Dashboard

This article hands you the blacklist; NexSpy enforces it across every device your child carries. The point isn't just blocking — it's keeping the block consistent whether your kid is on home Wi-Fi, school Wi-Fi, or cellular data, on their phone or a borrowed tablet.

Paste the list, then layer categories on top

Open the Website filter in your Parent Dashboard, drop the domains from the previous section into the custom blacklist, and add any trusted sites — school portals, your kid's coding class, your library — to the allowlist. Then turn on the four pre-built risk categories (adult, drugs, violence, and gambling) so the filter catches new domains the static list will miss. Together, the two layers solve the long-tail problem of stale URL lists.

Pair the filter with the Safe Search filter, which forces Google, Bing, and YouTube into strict mode at the search-results level. Review the browsing history report across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Samsung Internet, and Safari from the Parent Dashboard to see which blocks fired and which new domains your child tried to reach.

Close the app-equivalent door

A browser block on tiktok.com is half a solution — TikTok ships an app, and so do most gambling brands, dating platforms, and stranger-chat clones. Use the App and Game Blocker to:

• Block the TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram apps when you've blocked their web portals
• Schedule downtime windows so the same apps unlock only during approved hours
• Approve or deny child requests for temporary access without permanently unblocking

Set real-time alerts so you're notified the moment a blocked-site attempt or a risky keyword fires — that's your cue for the next conversation, not just a logged event. On Android, Inappropriate Image Detection scans the photo gallery for content that slipped past the browser filter; the same detection runs on iOS too.

When NexSpy is the right pick (and when it isn't)

Pick a router filter if every kid uses the same rules and you don't travel. Pick built-in OS controls if your whole household is on one platform and you only need downtime plus basic site blocking. Pick NexSpy if you need the copy-ready blacklist to follow the kid between networks, you want age-tiered rules per child, and you want one dashboard across iPhone and Android with co-parenting access.

Blocking at School vs. at Home: Two Different Contexts

Schools already block a lot — and the gaps they leave are exactly what a home parental setup should close.

Most school networks filter at the gateway and typically block:

• Social media (Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook)
• Streaming and music (Netflix, Spotify, Twitch)
• Gaming portals and game-related sites
• Adult and gambling categories
• Personal email and webmail in some districts

What schools usually leave open that parents should close at home:

• Niche chat platforms (Discord, smaller stranger-chat clones)
• Lightly-moderated forums and image boards
• Evening streaming-piracy sites
• Crypto and free-Robux scam pages
• Dating app web portals and adult-content mirrors that route around the school's category list

Device-level blocking — rules attached to the child's phone, not the network — follows the device between school Wi-Fi, home Wi-Fi, and the cellular plan. That's the layer parents control end-to-end. Coordinate with the school's acceptable-use policy if it's public: match their categories at minimum, then add the gaps above. If your school issues a managed Chromebook, the school controls that device; your home blocklist still matters for the personal phone the kid pulls out at lunch.