[LINK] IT: Essay: ICRA - Censoring The World, Round 2

[Gordon Keith]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:40, viveka wrote:
> I would also prefer a system that would warn me/my child prior to
> clicking on a link of the content behind it, rather than blocking
> anything altogether.

I get a similar effect by turning off the autoload images option in the 
browser. The text content of a web page on a good page contains all the 
useful content and even on a bad page normally contains enough of a 
summary of the content to know if I want to click the images button to 
get the contents.

The image content almost always contains all the content I don't want 
me or my children to see (ads, porn, etc) and also uses most of the 
bandwidth and cost. (The fact I still use a 14.4K modem at home is also 
relevant, but I also have images off on the LAN connection at work).

I'd thoroughly recommend having the default browser configuration with 
autoload image off and teach people how to use the images button, 
especially at schools where it also teaches about bad web page design 
(any page where you have to click images page for anything other than 
content, eg navigation).

Regards
Gordon