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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Re:First Post! by krewemaynard · 2009-04-17 05:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

RON PAUL

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I saw it on Slashdot, it must be true!
I think I know what the problem is: by DaveV1.0 · 2009-04-17 06:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

PEBKAC

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There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Typical Microsloth by Conrad+Mazian · 2009-04-18 09:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Typical. Typical Microsloth. And the company wonders why their reputation is worse than Jack the Ripper's.