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Stop people submitting VPN sites as Sexuality/Nudity/Pornography

l1t
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Level 1

This is ridiculous. Yes, people might use those services for that purpose. No, there is no sexuality/nudity/pornography on legitimate VPN service sites. Yes, there are completely legitimate uses for VPN's. Mislabeling them and thus causing OpenDNS to block them just serves to make the service non-useful for legitimate users.

If you are concerned about people using VPN's for pornography, or gambling or buying drugs or any other use that somebody might try to use a VPN for, then block Proxies/Anonymizers/VPN's in your content settings. But please stop mislabeling VPN's as if they are porn sites when they aren't. Or if you're not sure of the technical distinction, please don't submit sites at all until you are. It's a genuine pain in the neck.

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rotblitz
Level 6
Level 6

Sad to say, but we other users like you can do nothing for you.  You had to compile a list of VPN service domains which are categorized as somthing else (except Proxy/Anonymizer), and then open a support ticket with OpenDNS directly.  They will be happy to correct this.

Btw, this is not OpenDNS who are "mislabeling VPN's as if they are porn sites when they aren't".  Domain tagging is a community effort operated by users and domain tagging moderators where you are part of.
https://community.opendns.com/domaintagging/faq/

mattwilson9090
Level 4
Level 4

@l1t Are these VPN domains you are concerned about merely being voted upon in these categories, or have they been finalized as being in those categories. If being voted upon, it doesn't matter very matter since they added until the categorization has been finalized, and that's always done by a moderator, who catch a lot of this.

If you are finding VPN domains that are miscategorized, do as rotblitz send, compile them into a list and send them to OpenDNS in a support ticket.

Also, just how is OpenDNS supposed to stop people from voting for the wrong categorization?