Microsoft Family Safety Filter Blocks Google

Posted by timothy on Friday April 17, 2009 @02:37AM from the can-neither-confirm-nor-deny dept.

mike.rimov writes "I saw that part of the brand new Windows Live package is the Family Safety Filter, so I decided to give it a spin. Turned it on, set it to 'basic filtering' (their lowest level), and went to Google ... oops, it blocks Google! So I logged into the settings and added Google as an exception. Google still wouldn't come up. Just in case, I turned off the family filter: voila, Google. As we all know, 'Don't be evil' is not part of Microsoft's motto! Oh yeah — and with the filter on, Microsoft's own search engine, live.com comes up." Anomaly?

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Eh? by Computershack · 2009-04-17 02:50 · Score: 5, Informative

I'd love to know WTF the author has done. It's never blocked Google on the three lappies its installed on here.

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Possible related to Google filtering options? by nlewis · 2009-04-17 02:55 · Score: 5, Informative

I seem to recall a much older filtering software package (I don't recall which offhand - DansGuardian, maybe?) that will block Google if you have disabled "SafeSearch" in the Advanced Preferences - that is, if you have it set to "Do not filter my search results."