A video is gaining attention where US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson discusses his use of Covenant Eyes to share their possible use of porn sites on their devices using software called Covenant Eyes, and when I searched for information on *how* it works I found a number of posts from people that discuss how it's used by religious people who want to instill fear that someone will discover their interest in anatomy.
What I haven't really found are links that discuss how it works. Is it a VPN trying to parse visited domains? Is it using some kind of software hooks to monitor Safari/Edge/Chrome/Firefox to compare to a database? There are some references to taking screenshots and "using AI to analyze the image" for melons and hot dogs...seems odd given how locked down I thought iOS is...but is that the mechanism being used on various devices?
How does the software actually work to spy on the users? Seems like there's very little technical information about it but plenty of personal and religious anecdata. I was looking more for some analysis about how the software works and less about how some people feel about it, as I would think it could be a massive security breach sending data to a third party company to collect about the user.