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... or maybe it's meant as malware in the first place. I mean, in this day and age why would the bad guys be honest about their intentions up front?
Or [insert some edgy comment about those who are suppose to protect are most often those who violate]...
It would not entirely surprise me if that were true. To me though it just seems like people with good intentions but not the best results. Although, I heat Net Nanny works a lot better than other internet filters, so I'll give it that...
lol
I hate censorship of any kind. Always makes me feel like there is going to be something I'll end up missing because of a false positive.
I don't mind in cases where it's obvious it's something bad, like bleeping out a word or putting a black box over something, but in some cases yeah I don't like it either. I generally dislike it if it's going through a machine, like YouTube's Restricted Mode/Safety Mode, because of like you said about false positives.
Also, it's expensive...
My dad is wasting his money on this thing.
Wait, so you are restricted of the interesting stuff? Your dirteen age is ruined...
XD
Hey I have adulthood ahead of me for that. (Assuming I was into that kind of thing if I'm reading your post correctly)
Actually, my father's greatest concern was about the computer. He was convinced that I will get it infected on such sites.
Most basic anti-virus software can prevent that unless you specifically give a program (like an installer) permission to change things on your computer. Then your computer and its software usually lets it just do whatever it wants.
For me I have the basic Windows Security (or whatever it's called) and that's worked.
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Still stuck with this piece of crap. (Net Nanny)
Better idea: Custom script (loaded with GreaseMonkey/similar) that password-blocks access to sites with bad Child Safety rating on the Web of Trust extension. Same password required to disable said script and/or Web of Trust.
It's only a theoretical concept and it's easy for me to imagine it working MUCH better than NetNanny, and with way less false positives. Also it's free. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if someone made it already and put the code up.
You know a paid software is uninformed people fodder when it can be fully replaced (and with better efficiency) with a short script + free browser extensions.