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It’s well known that the internet hosts a wide variety of pornography sites, from the legal on the surface web to the illegal on the dark web.

But what of other adult only material, which is also x-rated and may be illegal. Sites showing gore, mutilation, torture and worse? Again, they’re split between the legal and illegal, and hosted on the surface and dark webs.

Many companies use a technology called content filtering to prevent access to this sort of material. Automated tools trawl the surface web and categorise the websites they come across. Companies block access to certain categories, to help protect their employees.

You can usually do something similar at home. Service providers often allow you to add parental controls, which prevent access to sites showing adult material. Some antimalware providers also have add-ons for web browsers which can alert on or block access to potentially adult rated material.

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