The table below lists all available Content Modifications, along with links to instructions for using them.
- If you have a Hybrid setup, switch from managing Content Modifications in On-Premise Appliance to Cloud Filter.
- If you have a Cloud-only or On-Premise Appliance-only setup, you can set up any Content Modification, but you should check which Content Modifications will work for your setup.
Important
- Content Modification is not supported for the Android Filter App.
- Smoothwall Browser supports the Force SafeSearch Content Modification only.
| Name | Category for On-Premise Appliance | Works for policies applied via On-Premise Appliance? | Works for policies applied via Cloud Filter Extension? | Description |
| Bing - Remove AI Overview | Bing | Yes | No - Not available in Cloud Filter. | Remove the AI-generated overview section from Bing searches. |
| Google - Remove AI Overview | Yes | No - Not available in Cloud Filter. | Remove the AI-generated overview section from Google searches. | |
| BBC iPlayer - Enforce parental guidance lock | BBC iPlayer | Yes | Yes | Enforces BBC iPlayer's parental lock. |
| ITV Player - Enforce parental guidance lock | N/A | No | Yes | Enforces ITV iPlayer's parental lock. |
| Blogger - Comments removal | Everything | Yes | Yes | Remove comments from Blogspot and Blogger websites. |
| Disqus - Comments removal | Everything | Yes | Yes | Remove Disqus comments from websites. |
| Facebook - Comments removal | Everything | Yes | Yes | Remove Facebook comments from websites. |
| WordPress - Comments removal | Everything | Yes | Yes | Remove comments from WordPress websites. |
| Remove QUIC Header | Everything | Yes | No | Remove alternate-protocol response header. |
| Google - Block Doodle games | Google Search | Yes | Yes | Removes games from Google search results, including Pacman, Minesweeper, Tic tac toe, Animal sounds, Memory game, and Snake. |
| Enforce Google Image Licensing | Google Search | Yes | Yes |
Google Image search, thumbnails or search suggestions can sometimes show inappropriate images even when SafeSearch is enforced. Restrict search results using this Content Modification so users see:
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| Force SafeSearch | Everything | Yes | Yes | Manipulates the URL to automatically switch on safe searching for most search engines. |
| Google - Web search (basic mode) | Google Search | Yes | Yes | Removes everything that's not an actual search result from the search results page, including YouTube videos, advertisements, translations, AI summaries and more. |
| Google - Remove adverts | Google Search | Yes | Yes | Remove advertisements from Google so users can't click through on them. |
| Google & Bing - Remove translation from search results | Search Engines or Google or Bing | Yes | Yes | Removing Translate from search results. |
| Google - Remove YouTube videos from search results | Google Search | Yes
Note Inline links in the Videos tab are not removed. |
Yes | Remove the section of the page that serves YouTube videos. |
| Google - Remove lyrics from search results | N/A | Yes | Yes | Remove the section of the page that shows song lyrics. |
| SafeSearch via CONNECT header | Everything | Yes | No | Enforce SafeSearch via a CONNECT header rewrite for Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Brave, Ecosia and Pixabay. |
| Vimeo - Force mature content filter | Vimeo | Yes | Yes | Force the 'Mature Content Filter' when browsing Vimeo. This prevents videos marked as mature from being played or shown in Vimeo's search results. |
| YouTube - SafetyMode cookie | YouTube | Yes | Yes | Inserts a cookie that enforces Restricted YouTube. |
| Snapchat URL Rewrite | Snapchat | Yes | No | Modify the CONNECT header of URLs used by Snapchat to allow them. |
| YouTube - Remove adverts | YouTube | Can be selected, but using it has no effect. Use Cloud Filter instead. | Yes | Users won’t see adverts at the start, during or after the video. |
| YouTube - Remove Playables | YouTube | Yes | No - Not available in Cloud Filter. | Remove Playables from the YouTube homepage, menu and search results. |
| YouTube - Comments removal | YouTube | Yes | Yes | Remove the comments section underneath videos. |
| YouTube - Remove Sidebar and Disable Auto Play | YouTube | Yes | Yes | Stop the next related video from automatically playing at the end of the user’s current video. |
| YouTube - Remove Shorts | YouTube | Yes | No - Not available in Cloud Filter. | Prevent users from seeing or watching YouTube shorts. |
| YouTube - Restricted mode via CONNECT header | YouTube | Yes | No | Rewrites the CONNECT header for YouTube domains to 'restrictmoderate.youtube.com' or 'restrict.youtube.com'. Has a Strict or Moderate version defined by Google. |
| YouTube - Restricted mode via HTTP header | YouTube | Yes | No | Rewrites the HTTPS header for YouTube domains to 'restrictmoderate.youtube.com' or 'restrict.youtube.com'. Has a Strict or Moderate version defined by Google. |