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<p>There are lots of selections at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts">https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts</a> to choose from. Pretty easy
to install your favorite choice of baddie blockers.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/21/19 3:24 PM, David Needle wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks for chiming in!
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<div>That Chromebook idea might be worth pursuing. though
establishing that white list sounds like a hassle. For
example with the filter he could go to YouTube and see most
everything, but some content was considered too "adult." Not
sure about the Lee's idea, again, it sounds like we would
have to either identify and limit him to a core group of
sites (less than ideal) or try to identify all the ones that
are undesirable impossible :-)</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:11
PM Lee Schlesinger <<a href="mailto:sayhitolee@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">sayhitolee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">If your friend is not technical you could
install a custom /etc/hosts file (<a
href="https://www.hostsfile.org/hosts.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.hostsfile.org/hosts.html</a>
for instance) to block undesirable sites. It's not a total
solution, but it could help.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at
3:02 PM David Needle <<a
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moz-do-not-send="true">davidneedle@gmail.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Friend of mine has been dealing
with a porn addiction issue
for many years. He lives on the East Cost (I’m in
California) so it’s hard to
help directly. But I have over the years with mixed
results. He’s had computers
that he’s ended up smashing in frustration and gone
years without using one at
all because of the issue. He also uses a bare bones
cellphone because of the
issue.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His last computer was three years
ago and we used a family protection
service by Symantec a filter that worked really well
(I had the password),
until it didn’t. This doesn’t quite make sense to
me, but as he explains it, he
was getting pop up ads from Comcast offering free
wifi on an hourly basis. He
said these would pop up even when he was offline.
I’m not sure how that could
be so, but I guess if it was embedded in the
computer it’s possible. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anyway, what happened was he
would buy hourly time and that
connection for some reason subverted or was immune
to the filter so he could do
whatever he wanted and that was not a good thing. He
ended up shutting down the
computer and stopped using it. I suspect he’s not
giving an accurate
description of what happened. It may be he ended his
Internet provider (and
Symantec) and then got the Comcast offers, etc. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In any case, he wants to try
getting a computer again which
he needs for email etc. and starting with the filter
again, but is worried
about this Comcast issue happening again. It’s a
weird situation to be using
this “family filter” because he’s in his 50s, but
seems to be the only
solution. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone have any ideas or
thoughts? I’m thinking just go
ahead with Symantec again and see what happens. I
don’t think he’ll get those
ads with a new laptop. I think they were some
vestige of the last computer that
a friend gave to him. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance, </p>
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David</p>
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