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Mon, 14 May 2012 18:51:44 +0200
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On 05/14/2012 06:39 PM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
>> It isn't clear if you are looking to provide your user with some
>> voluntary self-filtering or if your user wants to impose filtering on
>> others.
> 
> Ah, apologies to everyone!  (I was curious about the "political" statement).  It is indeed *self* inflicted.  The user is having trouble getting his work done and finds his own behaviour online detrimental to his work process.
> 
>> People gave you ideas about the latter.  For the former there
>> are various browser plugins that your user can install to self-manage
>> their own filtering.  For example Chrome's "Personal Blocklist"
>> extension.  Although the emphasis there looks to be default-allow rather
>> than default-deny.
> 
> I figured if the user has issues to the point of requesting that I whitelist websites he may not find a plugin for browsers useful (i.e. easy to circumvent), however, I did encounter these options as well in my google searches so I will suggest this as an option.
> 
> Thanks everyone!
> -Chris

hello Chris,

you can try squid/squidguard or dansguardian, but, again, the user can
circumvent the proxy setting in his browser if this isn't enforced
(transparent proxy)

Gilberto


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