Where I work allows personal browsing - it’s pretty much the only way to survive the night shifts for a start. Browsing is, of course, monitored for NSFW stuff. It occurs to me that unbroken NSFW links will still get picked up by the monitoring software, even if protected by [noparse] or [noparse][/noparse][/noparse] tags.
I think I might return to breaking links manually.
The web filters I’ve come across — notably versions of WebSense — don’t, I think, monitor content, but are effectively a categorised URL blacklist. At my previous employers the filters are only triggered when you try to request a blocked URL, not when you access a page that contains a blocked URL.
Are you saying that if a link to an NSFW page appears on the page you are viewing, then you are flagged as viewing inappropriate material even if you never click on that link or visit that NSFW page?
I don’t know. I believe the link itself will get picked up, but flagging is a different matter. Hopefully it doesn’t, of course.
I’m not sure I understand the difference between “flagged” and “picked up”. What I meant by flagged is that it would show up on some report that the IT people would look at if they were looking for unauthorized computer use.
I never imagined that every link on a page would show up on such a report. I can easily imagine situations where you could legitimately be on a page with links to pages where you have no business being.
Do you have actual knowledge of such a thing, or just a general concern that it could be the case?
By being picked up I mean being run through their list of filters; by being flagged I mean causing a report saying that Quartz has been a naughty boy.
Just the latter.