Force Safe Search for Brave?

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Is there a way to force Safe Search when using Brave search engine?
I was able to for Google, Bing, Duckduckgo, but I can't find a way to force Brave.

Thanks.

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https://search.brave.com/settings - Quick settings - Safe Search - strict, moderate or off

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yeah that's not what I meant lol. I meant force it via Pihole, like Google and Bing.

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That would depend on whether Brave Search as well as Brave Safe Search would be accessible via a distinctive domain (or set of domains).
If so, you could just create the required matching CNAME entries in Pi-hole, in analogy to other safe search engines.

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I believe they do. According to what I found, it's safesearch.brave.com. I tried to create a CNAME in Pihole, but it breaks the site. Unless that's not how it's done.

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Do you have A and AAAA records for safesearch.brave.com?

Local CNAME Records prominently disclaims

The target of a CNAME must be a domain that the Pi-hole already has in its cache or is authoritative for. This is a universal limitation of CNAME records.

A and AAAA record definitions would make Pi-hole authoritative for safesearch.brave.com.

If you consider this, you should be aware that when acquiring the IP addresses to add, the IPs you would receive for resolving a given domain may differ from those that someone requesting it from another geographical location may see.
Also, this approach may break as soon as public DNS resolution of such a target domain would change to a different IP.

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