This article applies to organisations with a 'Hybrid' setup (both On-Premise Appliance and Cloud), as well as On-Premise only and Cloud only setups.
Blocklist Categories
You can see a list of blocklist categories in PDF format at the bottom of this article.
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Content Modifications
The table below lists all our available Content Modifications.
All Content Modifications can be managed from Cloud Filter once you switch over, but some Content Modifications only work when you apply policies from one of the platforms.
| Name | Category for On-Premise Appliance | Use in policies applied via On-Premise Appliance | Use in policies applied via Cloud Extension | Description |
| 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. |
| YouTube - Comments removal | YouTube | Yes | Yes | Remove the comments section underneath videos. |
| 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 | Users will only see images licensed under the Creative Commons license. |
| Force SafeSearch | Everything | Yes | Yes | Manipulates the URL to automatically switch on safe searching for most search engines. |
| Google - Image search basic mode | Google Search | Yes | Yes | Smoothwall can see the full source URL and block images based on the domain. |
| 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, Adverts, Translations, AI Summaries and more. |
| Google - Remove adverts | Google Search | Yes | Yes | Remove adverts 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 | 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 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 - 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. |