Don' t filters block good stuff too?

" I heard that you can't search for information on breast cancer or recipes for a chicken breast because the filter will block the word "breast"

I have been in the filtering business since 1998 and back in the day this was true. The filters could only pick out key words and that blocked all kinds of good along with the bad....But like everything else of a techincal nature things have completely and totally changed.

Good quality modern filters work differently. They maintain logs of millions-no hundreds of millions of sites. These sites want to be found so their content is readily identifiable so the filtering companies categorize the sites. For example, porn sites have porn meta tags, YouTube has an adult section and a safe section-that's easy to identify. Some sites are for shopping..so we categorize them for shopping, then again a shopping site might sell clothes, dildos and porn. So this one gets two categorizations-shopping and porn. Lingerie for example turns some people on to a point that they get screwy but most people have no problem-so we have it categorized as lingerie. This goes on and on for 35 separate categories.

When you set up your filter you decide what you might want to block...so let's say you are an alocoholic with a porn problem and gamble...you would then pick out gambling, alcohol and porn to block. If you have a shopping problem then you can block shopping, or sports, or news.....on and on.

Once you have decided what you are wanting to block then when you Google something and click on the site, the filter will quickly check in against our enormous categorized data base and either say yes or no depending on your preferences. If it says no then you cannot get to the site and if you try to uinstall the filter then it will throw you off the net until it is re-installed. By the way you can get all the chicken breast recipes you want....it isn't about the keywords anymore.

So finally, let's say that you have the no override filter and your wife is the registered user to keep you honest. So, you decide you don't want this darn filter anymore. Simply call our office and talk to the nice lady and tell her you want your porn back. She will ask you if you are Mrs Sallie Sue Mosrite...you will reply that you are Mr. Bubba James Mosrite. The nice lady will say: "have you wife call us and we will make the changes happily"....have a nice day.

It works great. Fast Accurate, inexpensive and gives freedom.