"moderate" safe search

how do i get this cursed thing OFF?!

my google defaulted back to this following a cookie flush; but my "search preferences" only gives me a choice of "on" or "off".

well, i definitely want "off" -- and it seems to be in agreement that i've selected that -- but then when i go back to a search, i get "Moderate Safe Search is On".

i tried changing it to "on" to see what would happen -- the results change to "STRICT Safe Search is On" -- but then when i toggle it back to "off", it's right back to "Moderate Safe Search is On".

is that it? is the concept of "off" gone?!

:confused

 

yeah, google. in ANY browser (IE9 but double checked in FF and Opera).

using yahoo/bing as a workaround atm coz that still has the 3-choice "off/moderate/safe" setting visible. which is evading me on google.

 

less cryptic?

i want to turn off "safe search" from google. it offers me "on"/"off" but the "off" is actually "moderate", not "off" at all. surprise surprise.

in the past i believe the choices were "off/moderate/safe" such as i am seeing in yahoo. or there was a SLIDER to that effect.

and yes, that is the FAQ for it. what it fails to tell you is that IT DOESN'T WORK!!!!

(unless you're cryptically hinting to me that i have a COOKIE problem?)

 

yes, again, checking that box yields STRICT safesearch, unchecking that box yields MODERATE safesearch.

nothing yields OFF.

 

Good morning...

Google no longer allows the complete disabling of its SafeSearch feature in the United States as illustrated here. Sorry.

 

what the...?!

even GOOGLE cannot be dumb enough to block PORN????

i am hereby changing my settings to "Filter Google"....

:mad

 

of COURSE they're censoring the results. if you search on "jaimee foxworth" and didn't even know that she DID porn, how would you know to "affix" a term like porn in the FIRST place?!

do i need to affix "porn" to all searches just to be sure now? as in "nancy pelosi...porn" on the off-chance i'm going to miss a scandal? i dare say i might have missed the ANTHONY WEINER one, had google been doing this back then.

i am not looking for porn myself, but if big brother is going to distort the results IN ANY WAY, that is censorship.

google has crossed into monopoly status. if they're gonna pull carp like this, i want them OUT of the m/w dictionary!

and again, why are WE being subjected to this, when the likes of SINGAPORE and SWEDEN are not?!

 

my husband thinks nancy pelosi is hot and he rarely looks at anything over 17.

she'll have ONE customer when her video comes out!

 

Google search has been censoring it's content for ages. They've been removing search results based on MPAA etc. requests, China's Google (among other countries) is heavily censored, etc. This concept with them is NOTHING new. It's just one more censorship.

I do think it would be nice to be able to search for images without having adult content show up, but I don't think it should be a setting you should have to change every time... I think a simple tic-mark box on the search page would be sufficient.

Anyway, I do love the power of the Google search engine... I've never liked Bing much. Duckduckgo.com is a decent alternative, and there are plenty of other search engines out there.

I think America's going to get more censored as time goes on, with the internet, and in general. I'm guessing Europe doesn't apply to this feature, because Europe by and large doesn't censor nudity in general... it's a more natural/normal part of their culture.

 

i thought google pulled OUT of china specifically to protest this.

EVERY time?! how about ANY time!

changing the DEFAULT or AUTOMATIC settings is mildly annoying. removing the option WHOLESALE is catastrophic.

it is the latter than i'm protesting.

 

...as well as the DOUBLESPEAK of labelling moderate safesearch "unfiltered".

if they called your two choices "heavily filtered" and "filtered even more", okay, i could live with that. but the former is actually listed as "do not filter"!!

i hope someone sues them.