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Clicked on it to find the following: Sorry, Web Safe has blocked this site This site has been blocked by Web Safe. It's listed as having cont

by mhh__ 5y ago

Clicked on it to find the following: Sorry, Web Safe has blocked this site This site has been blocked by Web Safe. It's listed as having content that’s inappropriate for children, involving either pornography, hate, crime, drugs, violence, hacking, self harm or suicide. Thank you, Virgin Media. At least they actually tell you they're blocking them now rather than just forcing a DNS failure.

Macha 5y ago
Isn't that a UK thing which you need to opt out of, not a Virgin thing? They don't do that here in Ireland, while I was under the impression most UK ISPs at least had default on porn filters
- Lio 5y ago
  It depends on the ISP. It a voluntary scheme and not all bother with it.
- 1_player 5y ago
  I got Zen (another UK ISP) and the page isn't blocked, and I'm a happy Mullvad customer. In fact, I haven't encountered a site that's blocked on the ISP level with them. So it's a Virgin Media thing.
judge2020 5y ago
Spectrum does this as well in the U.S., yet some on HN wonder why the industry is rolling out ECH (formerly eSNI) and encrypted DNS.
pacifika 5y ago
> If you’re a Virgin Fibre customer, we’ll ask to you choose your Web Safe settings when you register for My Virgin Media.
weavie 5y ago
I'm on Virgin, you can configure this. Log into your account and there's a whole range of categories you can select/unselect to block. It's only sites involved in pirating that you can't choose and have to use a VPN.
helloworld11 5y ago
Really? Your ISP treats you like this so blatantly? This is absurd, nonsense, being considered for practical purposes a child who needs to be controlled in their choices of "appropriate" viewing material. Disgusting. If you don't mind my asking, in which country is this?