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Many filters aren't that sophisticated, it might just have been a single word that tripped it up. I remember "hackaday" being blocked at my High School because
by arvinjoar 11y ago
Many filters aren't that sophisticated, it might just have been a single word that tripped it up. I remember "hackaday" being blocked at my High School because it was tagged as a "hacking website" by the filter.
- lmm 11y agoI remember not being able to look at cryptography websites because they contained the word "hash".
- __z 11y agoI remember the classic example back in the day of Super Bowl XXX content being blocked because it contained XXX. Heard this on the news.
- gmac 11y agoI had exactly the same problem with a site I made for a friend's wedding. It included a short message from the bride and groom ending with 'xxx' — i.e. kiss kiss kiss. Vodafone UK (at least) blocked it as porn.
- enraged_camel 11y agoThe funny thing is that if you visit a blocked website over HTTPS, it will often work, because the web filter won't be able to scan the contents. I used that trick many, many times to get around Websense.