How much of the web is filtered at your work place?

[duragezic]

pics.bbzzdd.com is blocked for me. Something about women in swimsuits.

All of the game related sites I've tried are blocked. Some entertainment sites like TV.com are blocked. I've actually logged into Facebook once to get something out of a message someone sent me, so I know that isn't blocked. Possibly some streaming things are blocked. I wasn't able to get a CNN.com stream, even after installing the required plugin. Also some but not all photo sharing sites are blocked.

But for the most part, the only leisure sites I visit at work are these forums, my webmail, and news sites.

LOL @ no outside access except AT forums. That fucking rocks.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Mojoed
Absolutely everything outside the company website and AT Forums are blocked for us. Only reason why AT is allowed is, our head IT guy is a big fan of this place and posts here often.

I can't even google shit from work.

At least I got ATOT though! :roll:

Why don't you PM him and tell him he's a dumbass?

Nothing is blocked at my current company. But I work from home, so I don't use my work PC to browse any websites that aren't related to work.

Nothing was blocked at my old company; they did "monitor" usage, but they really didn't. If an issue came up they might look at the logs, but that's about it.

Company before that was like big brother. They even reviewed lists of external phone call counts and Outlook web access login counts once a month at our weekly IT team meetings, and occasionally questioned why employees were logging into their e-mail from home if their counts were high. I was scared to browse non-work websites there. One of my coworkers brought a personal laptop in so he could access the Internet without logging into the domain.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Pretty much intranet-only except for some sites that are 'important' like FedEX, UPS, USPS and about a dozen others. Internet kiosks in the pantry are also pretty limited. Any streaming audio/video entertainment sites, social networking, most major webmail providers etc. are all blocked.

 

[Joemonkey]

nothing is blocked for us, nor is it even logged. Hell, we advertise in Playboy so everyone HAS to be able to go to playboy.com to see it!

 

[Vehemence]

None.

Also, I browse pr0n on my iPod touch (appropriately named) in the bathroom.

 

[ElFenix]

none. boss looks at porn in the afternoon.

 

[LS21]

0%
ive streamed radio, netflix, downloaded illegal media, etc


edit: the only thing that doesnt work is AIM...dont get it (will work through 3rd party AIM proxies)

 

[skulkingghost]

none i work from home

 

[rh71]

just playboy and those explicit sites (VPN from home).

 

[Duddy]

Originally posted by: Vehemence
None.

Also, I browse pr0n on my iPod touch (appropriately named) in the bathroom.

:thumbsup: I feel less perverted now.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have access to 3 internet connections at work. The regular office one with websense, the "External" one with only a basic pix firewall (no outgoing port blocks so we can VPN to customer sites, and no websense).

Should that link go down, we have a phone line and DSL modem which we normally just use for testing stuff. It's very important that the office porn link is redundant and that we can watch youtube videos without affecting the sales department's ebay bids.

 

[Exterous]

We have two at our work. We have the 'official' line that's bandwith is stretched waaaaay too thin. Fairly significant blocking and monitoring. We got cozy with our rep at Comcast and got him to install the 10mbs business line for no monthly charge. We use this most of the time for our work and sluff off the 'official' line to the non-tech people

 

[daveshel]

Most of the pics and all the videos posted here.

 

[DaWhim]

everything is proxied. most social networking sites are blocked, if not all. still have access to site like youtube, digg, etc.

my last job was better, I could use logmein, i did everything with my home computer while at work.

I work in a bank.

 

[theknight571]

I have yet to find anything blocked... but then I haven't tried to find something that's been blocked.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Duddy

Originally posted by: Vehemence
None.

Also, I browse pr0n on my iPod touch (appropriately named) in the bathroom.

:thumbsup: I feel less perverted now.

doesn't it feel a bit umm... uncomfortable with wood while sitting on a toilet seat? How does that work?

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
none

This.

KT

 

[Beev]

A TON of shit is blocked here. The people in charge of internet filtering are a bunch of dumbshits though, so things that shouldn't be blocked are anyway because they fall into the same category. I set up Circumventor at home and now I browse whatever the fuck I want (sans super java intensive sites).

 

[TallBill]

Nothing is filtered, but everything is monitored.

 

[SammyJr]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
none

Its monitored, though... for most users, anyway.

 

[shocksyde]

Streaming media is blocked (youtube, liveleak, break), games are blocked (anything with the word game in it, even fantasy sports),

My favorite is when I try to go to youtube it says "This page has been blocked due to: Marijuana"

 

[Deviant Grasshopper]

pr0n, gaming, streaming media (youtube, etc),

 

[lightstar]

Originally posted by: Deviant Grasshopper
pr0n, gaming, streaming media (youtube, etc),

pretty much everything as above. . . .i work for a catholic hospital so the nuns want us to focus on our jobs!

 

[dabuddha]

None.

 

[Linflas]

I work in a middle school so it is very filtered.