Separate reply to your edit. [btw, you can click the timestamp in my comment if you are not presented with a reply link]
> If you think these companies enjoy wasting resources on porn filter then you're crazy
I don't know who's misleading you but BT offered parental controls, including adult content filtering, long before the 2013 governmental push. All they did was turn it on by default (it was off by default, before).
And none of this excuses hijacking DNS to offer parental controls. There are far better technical ways to achieve that.
And by the way, I don't live in the UK anymore and I don't like what you're implying with who I may or may not be voting for. I left when it got shit. Voted with my feet.
Sorry I'm a non-devops programmer ;) bad me. What are the better ways? HTTP 403 and friends? (Praying that you won't say "a .exe to fix the browser's access to porn")
Router-level blocklists/firewalling are the most common, but there are other ways. Think of how companies sanely implement their internal web access filters.
> If you think these companies enjoy wasting resources on porn filter then you're crazy
I don't know who's misleading you but BT offered parental controls, including adult content filtering, long before the 2013 governmental push. All they did was turn it on by default (it was off by default, before).
And none of this excuses hijacking DNS to offer parental controls. There are far better technical ways to achieve that.
And by the way, I don't live in the UK anymore and I don't like what you're implying with who I may or may not be voting for. I left when it got shit. Voted with my feet.