WebMinder

WebMinder was a content blocking system implemented in the UK by Brightview Internet Services[http://www.iwf.org.uk/media/news.archive-2005.111.htm Brightview announces blocking system for child abuse websites] and used on their ISPs such as Madasafish, Global Internet and Waitrose.Com. It was similar in purpose to Cleanfeed, BT's blocking system and used a list from the Internet Watch Foundation. In addition to this it claimed to stop images from these sites being transmitted as email attachments.

WebMinder was a two-stage process using Cisco's Web Cache Communication Protocol version 2 (WCCPv2).{{cite web|url=http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/cleanfeed.pdf | access-date=2023-10-31 | title=Failures in a Hybrid Content Blocking System}} and was architecturally similar to Cleanfeed.

WebMinder was retired after BT's purchase of the Brightview Group in 2007,[https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/06/bt_brightview_buy/ BT opens wallet for Brightview] and the ISP's using it were moved to BT's Cleanfeed system.

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