{"id":490,"date":"2010-08-01T13:06:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/?p=490"},"modified":"2017-08-15T16:04:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T23:04:46","slug":"filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/filter\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Web Filtering Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/censored.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[490]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-492\" title=\"censored\" src=\"http:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/censored-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/censored-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/censored-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/censored.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I love the internet and I&#8217;ve always hated internet filters because they block stuff\u00a0erroneously. However, I do try to avoid certain types of material online and so I&#8217;ve done a little work to make sure that I don&#8217;t see anything I don&#8217;t want to see. Here&#8217;s what I do along with some other options.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, anyone that knows me knows that I hate censorship in a government. What I&#8217;m trying to help people do is filter out the content that they <em>personally<\/em> don&#8217;t want to see. I would never <strong>impose<\/strong> censorship on anyone.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Site by site plugin&#8217;s for Google Chrome<\/h2>\n<p>These can be a bit tricky depending on the site but if theres a site you always goto and it often has content you don&#8217;t want to see then they can be a great option. I have two installed but more can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\">userscripts.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/64014\">Hide NSFW stories on Reddit.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/74438\">Hide related (actually unrelated) images on imgur.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Search around and if you&#8217;re looking for a specific site and can&#8217;t find it let me know. I can whip one of these up in about 5 minutes so I&#8217;m happy to do it.<\/p>\n<h2>Hiding Reddit NSFW on Safari<\/h2>\n<p>Since RES isn&#8217;t available on Safari anymore, you can use <a href=\"https:\/\/tampermonkey.net\/\">tampermonkey<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/openuserjs.org\/scripts\/todaywasawesome\/Reddit_Hide_NSFW\">script for hiding nsfw stories on Reddit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Active content monitoring with DNS filtering<\/h2>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be scared of the title! This is a very easy thing to do! There&#8217;s a free solution called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendns.com\/\">OpenDNS<\/a>. You can make a few simple changes to your computer or router (there are complete instructions on the site) and then you can choose which types of content you want to block.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a bad solution, I don&#8217;t use it personally but will probably start when my Son gets old enough to use the computer on his own.<\/p>\n<h2>Using a hostfile to block a large swatch of bad sites<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to get geeky here and explain how DNS works and what it is. Every website has an address, instead of a physical address like 123 Sycamore its an IP address. When you type &#8220;todaywasawesome.com&#8221; into your browser your computer asks the DNS (domain name server) server for the adress to todaywasawesome.com. That address is 208.75.86.170.<\/p>\n<p>So the previous solution basically looks for websites that have bad content and then will give the wrong address back to your\u00c2\u00a0computer\u00c2\u00a0so the page won&#8217;t load. Does that make sense?<\/p>\n<p>K, well, a hostfile is sort of like a static DNS that loves on your computer. It tells your computer what the address for websites are without actually looking up what the address is.<\/p>\n<p>Still with me? Great, so theres a public hostfile out there you can download and\u00c2\u00a0install\u00c2\u00a0that will block most advertisements along with adult content. This hostfile can be downloaded from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvps.org\/winhelp2002\/hosts.htm\">mvps.org<\/a> and the have installation instructions on that site.<\/p>\n<h2>Plain old ad block<\/h2>\n<p>Just about every browser has some sort of adblock that you can grab. I have mixed feelings about them because I don&#8217;t actually care about blocking ads, just ads with content that I don&#8217;t like. But you may find this to be a better solution.<\/p>\n<p>You can find adblock for chrome <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/extensions\/detail\/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>For help<\/h2>\n<p>If you need any help just leave a comment and I&#8217;ll do what I can. If you have an additions or suggestions throw them in the comments as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the internet and I&#8217;ve always hated internet filters because they block stuff\u00a0erroneously. However, I do try to avoid certain types of material online and so I&#8217;ve done a little work to make sure that I don&#8217;t see anything I don&#8217;t want to see. Here&#8217;s what I do along with some other options. 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