Quality of parental control feature

[timkgh]

I've run into 2 cases of false positives. I understand that false positives happen occasionally and we fix them by reporting them. What's concerning is that these 2 broke before, got fixed, then they broke again. Do you have any processes in place to make sure that sites don't re-appear on block lists when they shouldn't?

[timkgh]

I keep running into false positives that should not be blocked. I report them but the issues just sit there unactioned. I agree that some of these can be tricky, they point to buckets in S3 or B2 or to software repositories that may also host adult content, but they also have legitimate content, e.g. backups that I cannot get to. DNS blocking is just not the right way to do it in this case, it is too wide. Content filtering that can inspect the URL is needed.

[timkgh]

@ameshkov This is becoming a problem, I keep running into domains of the form *.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com that keep getting blocked as "adult website" when these buckets do not really have any such content. I know I can allow list them, but do you think AGH should reconsider how it does some of the DNS blocking when it comes to services such as S3 and B2?

I've also run into multiple cases where a domain is incorrectly blocked by AGH with parental control enabled, but when I resolve them via 94.140.14.15 (family protection) they are not blocked. Doesn't AGH use 94.140.14.15 to decide what to block for parental control? It does not seem to work.

[ameshkov]

AGH does use 94.140.14.15 indeed. Could you please provide some real-life examples?

[timkgh]

Any way to send you a private email?

[ameshkov]

yep, am@adguard.com

[timkgh]

Sent. Referenced this discussion # in the subject.