Easiest way to keep an eye on web usage? URL Logging? [closed]

Easiest way to keep an eye on web usage? URL Logging? [closed]

My sister, who is computer illiterate, has asked me to take a look at her teenage son's web traffic to see what sites he has been using. He is not very computer literate either, but his history in Firefox is suspiciously low on the number of sites for the amount of time he spends online. Is there an easy way to record visited sites that wouldn't easily be noticed? I checked the DNS cache (ipconfig /displaydns) but didn't see anything suspicious yet. I would like to see all his traffic after a few weeks. Any suggestions? A free method would be preferred.

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"Ask him!

And yes, I'm serious. Would you go read his diary? Teenagers have a right to privacy too.

So he has ""suspiciously low"" sites in the history. So does that really make you suspect he's involved in serious illegal activity? If not, what problem would you actually be solve by sniffing his net use history?

If your, or your sister's, relationship with teenage children is based on survaillance techniques, there are more urgent problems to seek answers to than this. I hope he's at least told that he's under surveillance.

(Sure, this answer doesn't answer the question directly, but it does still attempt to solve the underlying problem.)"