How to block porn sites

Network today permeates almost every sphere of human life, affecting the brain of the individual, and shaping character, behavior, habits. But in the virtual world as in the real, sometimes waiting for something that not everyone will be happy to meet. The Internet that something can be called pornography. How to protect your children and yourself, including protecting from the erotic and pornographic content?

Ways of blocking porn content

To block pornography in two ways: via your computer (local machine) or through the browser using the account.

The first method often involves installing various antiviruses, firewalls (firewall) and parental control. All of these programs work on the principle of filtration: in them contains a database of sites that contain prohibited content, and it is automatically updated every day. Thus, if the user accidentally or specifically goes to the corresponding resource, the program just blocks his access to this resource (does not allow you to view the contents of the website).

Often these programs are highly effective, protecting not only from erotic and porno content, but also from others, not suitable for young children materials (pedophilia, bestiality, suicidal themes, etc.).

The most popular disadvantage of such programs is their transparency to the user: able to use a computer the child can safely disable this program, or by going to the system tray and clicking on the corresponding icon or "killing", the corresponding process via the task Manager of the OS.

Blocking of pornographic content through the browser

In addition to the use of filters that are installed on the local machine, block unwanted content by using various types of internal filters the browser itself. Filters of this kind are often extensions or applications that can be customized to meet your needs.

In addition to sites, it is often necessary to block pop-up advertising, which also may contain porn content. Over the last two years the leader in this was the program AdBlock, which is available for free download.

Work they are often less effective than local programs, but sometimes slow down the browser itself, although many of them use a script like regular programs - they just add ' unwanted resources in the hosts file, thus blocking access to them.