I just took advantage of SBC's $26/month DSL offer at the beginning of the year. (available for people who have SBC phone service in our area). Then, after signing on, I was dismayed to find out that the 'award winning' Parental Controls feature they tout is for Windows only. :( During his salespitch, I had even asked the SBC guy if this feature would work on Mac and he assured me that it would- little did I know I needed to probe further to this conveniently buried link to find the system requirements. I am now in a year contract with SBC Yahoo without the Parental Controls I thought were part of the package. I have sent them two e-mails about this, but it looks like they went into the e-mail ether that is online customer service these days.

So now I am trying to find an equivalent service to my former ISP, mstar.net, which offered a filtered proxy that would block out the bad stuff.

Mstar.net does also offer an add-on if you already have an ISP called Web Sentinel that is only $5 a month. But, again it is, you guessed it, PC only.

After hunting around for an alternative, the only two promising products I have found are ContentBarrier, a filtering tool that runs on your computer, and BumperCar, a web browser built for kids. I would much rather have the filtering done at the ISP rather than on my own computer, but as far as I can tell, there just isn't something out there like this for Mac. So, the market is wide open!