I chose Net Nanny for quite obvious reason: I have a little girl. I thought it would be nice to know something about this very popular blocking software. Net Nanny is a so called child lock, it´s simple and rough - it blocks everything coming from certain address automatically. Works great on private PC´s but maybe too much to public machines. It is said that the major problem is that Internet changes much quicker than vendors cope to follow. And of course there is the threat of vendor´s hidden agenda.
Installing Net Nanny was simple. There were some dialog boxes which might confuse a user who isn´t that used to installing but nothing severe.
When I started web browsing for the first time after the installation it took a year for Firefox to start.. Well, it might have been also something to do with one of Firefox´s updates.
Feminism wasn´t bad on Net Nanny´s opinion. I got to browse without getting blocked. Also disabilities weren´t blocked. I also tried for example "Jehova´s Witnesses", "Republican" - no blocking
But porn was of course totally blocked. When I wrote "porn" to Google, I got a message saying "You are being blocked for viewing: www.google.fi/search For content of the following type(s): Pornography. For overriding it you need a password. But the override actually made just a blank page. Clicking the back-button gave me a page which said that there are no results for the word "porn". The reason was told below Google´s search bar: Word "porn" is filtered because you are using Google SafeSearch. Quite impressive I think. (NB: I use Finnish setup, so I transferred that last sentence - that´s why you might get a totally different one).
Also when I searched for "violence" I got the same kind of dialog as with "porn".
I would use this Net Nanny for sure, it seems to be effective. I might even need to use it after a couple of years when Karoliina grows ;) Or not. I´m not sure if there really is a need for blocking things, it´s one thing what has to be thought - maybe it´s enough to create a trusting environment to our home? It remains to be seen.
Heh, I had to uninstall Net Nanny soon after testing it - it blocked Facebook! :D And the reason it was blocked? "For the content of the following type(s): Gambling"
So, bye bye Net Nanny!
Installing Net Nanny was simple. There were some dialog boxes which might confuse a user who isn´t that used to installing but nothing severe.
When I started web browsing for the first time after the installation it took a year for Firefox to start.. Well, it might have been also something to do with one of Firefox´s updates.
Feminism wasn´t bad on Net Nanny´s opinion. I got to browse without getting blocked. Also disabilities weren´t blocked. I also tried for example "Jehova´s Witnesses", "Republican" - no blocking
But porn was of course totally blocked. When I wrote "porn" to Google, I got a message saying "You are being blocked for viewing: www.google.fi/search For content of the following type(s): Pornography. For overriding it you need a password. But the override actually made just a blank page. Clicking the back-button gave me a page which said that there are no results for the word "porn". The reason was told below Google´s search bar: Word "porn" is filtered because you are using Google SafeSearch. Quite impressive I think. (NB: I use Finnish setup, so I transferred that last sentence - that´s why you might get a totally different one).
Also when I searched for "violence" I got the same kind of dialog as with "porn".
I would use this Net Nanny for sure, it seems to be effective. I might even need to use it after a couple of years when Karoliina grows ;) Or not. I´m not sure if there really is a need for blocking things, it´s one thing what has to be thought - maybe it´s enough to create a trusting environment to our home? It remains to be seen.
Heh, I had to uninstall Net Nanny soon after testing it - it blocked Facebook! :D And the reason it was blocked? "For the content of the following type(s): Gambling"
So, bye bye Net Nanny!
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I love the twist at the end. :D
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