Neowin News Feed for: Filtering

Facebook has apologised for naughty word blocking blunder

Paul Hill — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:42:01 +0000

Facebook's automated blocking systems went into overdrive recently when it caused a woman to be blocked from a local Facebook after she set the collection point to a historical part of Plymouth, UK. Read more...

Steam adds text and chat filtering capability, now available in beta

Jefferson Mangubat — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 00:24:01 +0000

Steam now lets you select specific words you want to be removed from your chat experience, either individually or by uploading a list of words. The chat filtering feature is still available in beta. Read more...

Steam Search gets updated with more granular controls for pricing and tags

Florin Bodnarescu — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:06:02 +0000

Valve has decided to add a number of filtering options for search results, ranging from price to including and excluding specific tags. You are also able to now show only discounted titles. Read more...

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Google denies filtering Microsoft related searches

Zoe Austin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:16:54 +0000

The popular UK price comparison website Ciao.co.uk has been deeply affected by Google's recent changes to it's search system. According to BBC News, Ciao's parent Company, Microsoft, claims that Google is involved in rigging searches... Read more...

Porn to be opt-in in the UK

Matthew Jones — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:29:58 +0000

All internet porn is to be blocked at the ISP level under a UK Government plan. According to a Sunday Times story being republished around the globe the plan, to be discussed next month with major... Read more...

Updated: Google fully blocked in China

Owen Williams — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:11:07 +0000

Reuters reports that Google is entirely blocked in China today, with only a very small percentage of users able to access the web service. As a result, Google shares have plummeted by 1.4 percent, and... Read more...

Afghanistan to start censoring the internet

Brandon Boyce — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:42:01 +0000

The Financial Times is reporting that ISPs in Afghanistan will start filtering the internet starting May 1. According to a senior official in the Afghanistan government the goal is to block sites about gambling, promoting... Read more...

Google kills Google.cn, no longer filtering results

Brad Sams — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:33:55 +0000

Ever since Google was attacked by hackers based out of China, it has been deciding on if the company should pull out of China. As previously reported on Neowin, Google would soon announce that... Read more...

New Zealand implements country-wide government internet filter

Owen Williams — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:38:02 +0000

The New Zealand Government has quietly implemented a country-wide internet filtering system, designed to filter illegal content from the public, such as Beastiality and Child Pornography. The filter is opt-in by ISP's, and is governed... Read more...

RIAA: Client side filtering to stop piracy via encryption

Simon Andrews — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:33:17 +0000

As if an ISP filtering what content gets to you wasn't enough, Cary Sherman of the infamous RIAA says that the only way to really defeat piracy is via a client-side monitoring service, much like... Read more...

RIAA chief: We don't see a need for mandatory ISP filtering

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:53:48 +0000

U2's manager might love the idea of legally-mandated filtering, but the head of the RIAA says that there's no need for such an approach in the US. The RIAA still wants to see a thousand... Read more...

FCC to investigate Comcast BitTorrent filtering

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:25:10 +0000

The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that Comcast Corp. actively interferes with Internet traffic as its subscribers try to share files online, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday. A coalition of consumer groups and... Read more...

Symantec update removes Web filtering program

Steven Parker — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:07:32 +0000

An update for the company's Norton Antivirus software has yet again caused problems with its customers' computers. While Symantec is saying it was just a mistake involving a routine software update, the problems caused by... Read more...

Soapbox re-opens, now includes content filtering

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:43:06 +0000

Either Microsoft missed the memo regarding why YouTube is such a hit, or the software giant watched the Google-Viacom lawsuit and decided it would rather not have similar problems. After a two-month hiatus, Microsoft has... Read more...

YouTube 'close' to content filtering deal

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:29:47 +0000

Video sharing site YouTube has reportedly reached a deal to automatically filter out copyrighted material. Digital 'fingerprinting' technology from content protection firm Audible Magic will be used to pre-screen user-submitted videos for copyrighted work, according... Read more...

ATI conducts fireside chat about filtering

Thu, 20 May 2004 19:17:01 +0000

In order to address concerns raised by revelations about its adaptive trilinear filtering algorithm, ATI yesterday dispatched a pair of reps to talk about the issue in an online chat. Bjorn3D has the chat log.... Read more...

IE flaw exposes weakness in Yahoo! filtering

Wed, 24 Mar 2004 04:27:55 +0000

Flaws in the filtering technology used by Web-based email services make it possible for hackers to smuggle viruses past defences. Israeli security outfit GreyMagic Software warned today that this "severe security" vulnerability could allow attackers... Read more...

KaZaA, poor at filtering for viruses

Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:01:43 +0000

KaZaA, the media desktop, has been one of the most successful replacements for file sharing, allowing its users a way of sharing music, video, documents, images, and software. But six per... Read more...