archive.org

Uncertain Smile

January 12, 2020 at 4:27 pm

I am currently using family filters and wondered whether the above domain should be blocked (it currently is)

I use the well known domain librivox.org to download audiobooks which in turn uses archive.org as a hosting domain.

I was a little surprised to find archive.org blocked, is this correct?

I just wanted to raise the question in case there was an oversight, obviously I understand that the subject matter of a book can be ambiguous and so am sympathetic as to why it may need to remain blocked.

Daniel Cid

January 16, 2020 at 7:29 am

That was a tough one. They host and archive a lot of adult content (including images and videos).

We love the work they do, but after many complaints, specially from schools where students were using it to bypass the filters, we had to start blocking it.

thanks!

Uncertain Smile

January 16, 2020 at 1:09 pm

My thanks for investigating this for me.

I think I was just surprised that Librivox would be using a platform that would host adult content but then again just about anything can be in an archive just as anything can be in a book.

Thank you again and keep up the great work.