How restrictive is your works internet?

I haven't come across any restricted websites yet. The woman who sits opposite me spends half the day on Facebook and eBay and nothing has ever been mentioned to her.

All of the websites I go on at home work as well as I usually go on them at work in the Winter months as there is usually very little to do.
 
Basically unrestricted apart from dodgy stuff.. And if I can't get on anything I just change network to our private leased line (60mb, soon to be 100) and this can get on anything :)
 
Its supposed to be restricted however a few months back now we tested a proxy as part of netflix we were looking at in order to get American content. shortly after we removed the proxy but it seems bits are still left and I can't turn it off.

So on my machine its letting me into most of the blocked sites.
 
No restrictions/monitoring here.

However at my previous employer it was heavily restricted. Facebook and hotmail were just about accessible.

However whichever muppet locked down the computers forgot to lock remote desktop out so I just used to leave my computer on at home and remote in and use my PC to browse
 
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Most sites work, although there are some odd exceptions. Here's some that I know of:

All social media is blocked. Facebook, twitter, YouTube etc
Dropbox is blocked as social / file sharing
Gmail and iCloud are blocked. I assume hotmail and other online email access are too
Almost all image hosting sites. Makes browsing the forum pretty barren!
Porn (although never tested, that's pretty much a given :p)
Any "games" website. Pretty annoying if you like to read game reviews

Now the weird inconsistencies..

I can browse OcUK forums fine, however now and again a thread will time out and I won't be able to access it. I assume this is because of a keyword filter, but it's damn annoying.

All google affiliated links are blocked. I don't usually click on these but the colour accuracy is so **** poor, it's hard to differentiate between the 1 shade of pink/white they use, which gets annoying.

I'm content browsing on BBC news and the odd tech blog, (strictly on my lunch), but now and again I might search online for something and may come across some weird restrictions. Weirdly speedtest works, which I was surprised by.

I've do doubt it's monitored, so I try not to draw attention by hammering forbidden links
 
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Ours was prettily heavily censored.

trickycurve said:
Being in a school, our restrictions are quite heavy. Some teachers even had the occasional issue of not being able to access certain YouTube videos (all educational-related I might add) because the filtering system must have picked up something in the comments. Thankfully we're getting rid of our current system though (RM SmartCache) and replacing it with Securus so we have more control and can tailor it better.

Oh, and I'm one of three IT guys at my school so I have no restrictions.
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Ah, I remember RM at our high school. The product they had was connected with a few other schools, so if one teacher at a school added something to the blocklist it blocked it at all the different schools.
One day they filtered www.google.com :rolleyes:
 
I never saw the point in blocking a whole bunch of stuff, one quick scan through the logs told you who was messing about and you can script all that anyway, and since end legit sites can be compromised then there is little to gain by locking down all the iffy ones.

I'd be interested in other thoughts on Net policy though, why do you do what you do?
 
I cant speak for work because i only just left school but naturally most everything was blocked, Fortunately our school technicians weren't very good and didn't block everything, I ran a proxy on my server and just forwarded the mac i was using in school and got it completely unrestricted again, Another crude way i used was to run the online team viewer client to my desktop, Took them a long time to figure out that one..
 
I work for Social Services, ours is quite restricted, for eg, can access Ocuk's product pages but not the forums!
 
Web Marshal at ours. It blocks YouTube.

But the thing is SO dumb that it lets embedded YT vids on other sites play. So I a news story has a YT clip you can easily watch other vids from there.

It allows Yahoo Mail etc.

But I dont use the work net anymore @ lunch break since I got my Galaxy Note 2 :D
 
No restrictions or monitoring at our place. There is little point, we are a tech comnpany 90% of the staff would be able to circumvent it and show the other 10%.
 
Completely blocked except white listed work related sites and a blistering 0.5mbit down, 0.1mbit up. They experimented with letting popular sites through i.e. ebay and predictably a small number of people abused the **** out of it even tho they knew full well it would ruin it for everyone.

I usually use either my phone or tablet to get online via 3G.
 
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Websense here ... various things are blocked but nothing that's really a pain. File sharing sites such as Dropbox are blocked as is LogMeIn.

We have a unrestricted ADSL line in the test lab though ...

edit: forgot to mention, the big problem with the main internet access at the moment isn't the filtering it's that it's routing out via Germany for some reason on the new domain ... that's giving a few issues for some people accessing things on sites which detect you a not coming from a UK address (although those of us with any sense have manually switched back to the UK internal proxies)
 
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