Virgin Media 'Web Safe'...not very safe!!

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nobile
nobile Posts: 574 Forumite
edited 11 March 2014 at 11:13PM in Techie Stuff
I activated it yesterday, & it confirms my settings. Tested it out today via a simple Google search...


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1) I thought the results wouldnt show but they did.


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2. When I clicked on one of the results, I got this screen (thankfully!)



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3) But when I clicked on images, I got full on porno images (which I cant post here for obvious reason).


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So why isnt this VM Web safe filter hiding these images from my PC/laptop?

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  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    edited 12 March 2014 at 12:00AM
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    because google images isn't a blocked site probably, and google safesearch isn't doing as expected. https (ie encrypted browsing) can also stop filtering working.
    !!
    > . !!!! ----> .
  • securityguy
    securityguy Posts: 2,462 Forumite
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    Oh dear. Kneejerk political non-solution bound to have massive issues turns out to be a non-solution that has massive issues. Who, indeed, would have thought it was unworkable[STRIKE]apart from all the people who said from the off that it was unworkable[/STRIKE]?
  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
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    I expect that googles cache of pages won't be blocked either as that too will be served by google which they simply couldn't block.

    My biggest surprise is that anybody is surprised that bypassing child protection filters is simply childs play.

    I'm sure that experience of using proxies to bypass copyright protection blocking will come in very handy and the knowhow passed on with an efficiency the teachers could only dream of.
  • thor
    thor Posts: 5,483 Forumite
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    Maybe the op should use opendns? It does a pretty effective job for me.
  • securityguy
    securityguy Posts: 2,462 Forumite
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    thor wrote: »
    Maybe the op should use opendns? It does a pretty effective job for me.

    Of course, that's absolutely not by-passable by children in a few clicks.

    Absolutely not.
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