One Thing I Hate About SmugMug is...

Johnnycb

I have been a SmugMug customer for years and one thing that I hate is the meta tag or keywording Smug uses. For those who access from a corporate world tjhat is using Websense Enterprises tools always get the following.....

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=600><TBODY><TR><TD>Your organization's Internet use policy restricts access to this web page at this time.


</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=right width=100></TD><TD width="100%"></TD></TR><TR><!-- This displays the reason why the user was blocked --><TD vAlign=top align=right>Reason:

</TD><TD>The Websense category "Social Networking and Personal Sites" is filtered.

:scratch :dunno :huh


</TD></TR><TR><TD align=right></TD><TD><HR noShade SIZE=1></TD></TR><TR><!-- This displays the URL the user attempted to surf --><TD vAlign=top align=right>URL:

</TD><TD>http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1801307


Please -o-please fix this! :bow




Johnny




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DonMB

Johnnycb wrote:

I have been a SmugMug customer for years and one thing that I hate is the meta tag or keywording Smug uses. For those who access from a corporate world tjhat is using Websense Enterprises tools always get the following.....

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=600><TBODY><TR><TD>Your organization's Internet use policy restricts access to this web page at this time.



</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD width=100 align=right></TD><TD width="100%"></TD></TR><TR><!-- This displays the reason why the user was blocked --><TD vAlign=top align=right>Reason:


</TD><TD>The Websense category "Social Networking and Personal Sites" is filtered.

<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/ne_nau.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/eek7.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >



</TD></TR><TR><TD align=right></TD><TD><HR SIZE=1 noShade></TD></TR><TR><!-- This displays the URL the user attempted to surf --><TD vAlign=top align=right>URL:


</TD><TD>http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1801307


Please -o-please fix this! <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/bowdown.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >




Johnny





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They can't really control this. With a pro account, I use a vanity URL to get to my site, which my company doesn't block.

Typically, your company is paying for software that provides this flitering. They're given a list of sites in the categories, and choose whether to block those categories or not. They can also make exceptions for certain sites that would ordinarily be blocked by category.

With a vanity URL, the companies providing the list of URLs for filtering typically don't know about you, so you don't end up blocked.

Of course my site doesn't work for everything because some things, like buying photos, end up back on the smugmug URL. Also, my company likes to block javascript for most sites, so that breaks a lot. I can get around that buy using a different browser though, since it's a browser configuration thing they're doing for that. Even then, the slideshow, for instance, doesn't work, but I think that might be related to my company's proxy authentication, or because it involves a blocked URL underneath the covers.