Blacklist

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In web filtering content field, the blacklist is the way it is blocked users access to certain sites with inadequate content (for children) or unproductive (for employees). The blacklist is used by a filtering software or a parental control software. according to the filtering type, blacklists can be:

• web address lists;
• words lists.

Web address lists are lists of sites (web addresses) that are not allowed to be visited on that specific system. If, as an example, someone wants to block access to Wikipedia, it ads www.wikipedia.org to the blacklist of web addresses and the user will not be able to access it anymore.

Words lists are lists with words. If one of the words in the blacklist of words is present in a site, the user will not be able to open that site.

The blacklist is also used by parental control software.

>==Examples==

• Content control software like DansGuardian and SquidGuard can work with a blacklist to block URL addresses of sites considered to be inadequate for a certain environment;
• An e-mail spam filter can keep a blacklist of e-mail addresses;
• Members of an online auction site can add other members in a black list.

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