GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 644321
Nanny blacklist 'porn' blocks www.google.com
Last modified: 2014-08-02 12:14:11 UTC
I loaded the nanny blacklist http://projects.gnome.org/nanny/data/nbl/nanny.nbl blacklist, and only selected the porn category within it. Then the www.google.com site is blocked. This is abnormal since this site is not listed (in any category) in ftp://ftp.univ-tlse1.fr/pub/reseau/cache/squidguard_contrib/blacklists.tar.gz from which the nanny blacklist is supposed to come from. Either the process to build the blacklist is wrong, or the realtime filtering process is wrong. Problem seen with Nanny 2.29.4-0ubuntu1 , on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS together with Firefox 3.6.15
I see the exact same thing with Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat coming with Firefox 3.6.15. Nanny version is 2.29.4.0ubuntu4 Brand new installation of Ubuntu, did nothing but add a user (my son), add packet nanny and configure nanny with nanny.nbl. At first I selected all categories, but from my son's account I could browse nowhere without being blocked. I ended up unselecting everything but the porn category, and tried www.google.com: it was blocked. I removed then the porn category (thus still having a black list but with no selected category from it), and www.google.com worked. Problem is that removing all categories renders nanny useless, and is not an acceptable solution or workaround. This is a showstopper for me struggling to move from Windows. If the only decent parental control app (nanny) is not working, I can't let my son use Linux. Sad, but true.
Hi there, anything I could do to help fixing this? Are you perhaps in need for more information? Please let me know.
I also noticed this bug today after I installed Gnome Nanny, I can confirm that bug and as a workaround I had to whitelist Google.com to get to it
The last Nanny code changes took place more than two years ago: https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/nanny/log/ This project is not under active development anymore. This project has been recently archived in GNOME Git. It is currently unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.