OK, I'm letting the cat out of the bag: web based porn is NOT magic. I always smile inside when I here people tell me that porn ads or images suddenly appeared on their computer. In more than 12 years of browsing and researching on the web (and I have put in a few hours), I can tell you that porn has never suddenly appeared out of thin air. I can also honestly say that I have never 'run into' porn by searching the web. Is it because I have some great anti-porn software on my computer? No. Is it because I have been lucky? No.
The reason why it has never suddenly appeared on my computer, my wife's computer or my kid's computer in almost 15 years of online browsing is that porn originates from only three possible places:
- A user on the computer actually surfed to some porn or porn related site at some point.
- A user has engaged in online gambling or poker or trading of illegal files (music, movies, etc) at a shady site that had porn ads in the rotation.
- An email with a porn link or ad was opened.
That's it. No magic, no bad luck. Porn appears on computers for a reason, and it starts with one of those three. Is online porn 100% preventably? No, unless you don't use your computer to do anything online. However, it is 99.9% prevenable if you or anyone using your computer doesn't engage in any of the three behaviors I outlined in this tip. I'm no prude and if you want to look at online porn, that is your business, but don't get bit by spyware, adware and other online bad guys and then try and say that it 'just appeared'. It doesn't work that way.
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when look for old drivres I stumble on to porn . can we get a .porn ? and send it all ther
One of the best solutions to Internet porn problems is to setup a web extension specifically for porn. This would provide the ability for ISPs and families to block anything with a .sex or .prn extension.
It has been proposed a number of times. Ironically it has been defeated every time in large part due to the lobbying efforts of groups like Focus on the Family.
These groups tend to think that porn will become easier to find if it gets its own extension. I am a very conservative guy, I am a little upset at these family lobbying groups for pushing for the blocking of legislation that would provide the best possible tool for filtering porn and other garbage found on the web.
A .sex extension would be a win-win situation. The porn industry would make their content easier to find for those who want it and easier to filter for those who don't.