Every filter works from a list of bad sites. No list is complete, and the gaps are where the trouble is. Shomer Filter closes the gap: a site nobody has rated is blocked until it is checked — and checking it takes one click.
For homes, schools and businesses. Works in the Chrome or Edge you already use.
This is the part other filters leave to a phone call and a wait. Most requests finish in seconds, and the ones that shouldn't open never do.
Unrated is treated as unsafe. That is the whole point — the long tail of the web is exactly what a blocklist misses.
One button. The page already knows which computer it is on, so there is nothing to look up or type in — beyond the code, if your household uses one.
Our server opens the page, reads the visible text against a frum-tuned word list, checks the images with an image model, and looks the domain up in the category feeds.
A clean site opens straight away, along with the behind-the-scenes domains it needs to work properly. A site that scans badly is refused — and no code, no pestering and no mistake can open it. Anything in between waits for a human.
A code cannot open a bad site. An override code authorises a request; the scan decides the answer. That order matters — it is why handing a child the code does not hand them the internet, and why the person who holds the code cannot be worn down into a bad decision.
One engine. How strict it is depends on the plan and on who is at the keyboard.
An extension cleans Chrome and Edge from the inside: SafeSearch forced, flagged searches refused, images blurred or hidden, pages word-filtered. Or use ShomerBrowser, where the filtering is built in.
One computer, one household, several people. Each Windows user gets their own profile — a child's account can be locked down while a parent's is not.
On a managed device the filter and the extension are installed by policy. Turning the extension off does not unlock anything — it removes the extra access it was granting.
Categories refresh from the server the way virus definitions do — no reinstall, no waiting for a new version.
Not everyone wants blocking. The accountability plan blocks nothing and simply shows a trusted person where you went.
Every request that gets scanned and every decision a reviewer makes teaches the shared category database — so the gap that caught you is closed for everyone.
Same filtering engine throughout. The plan decides how many computers and how they are managed.
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Worth being plain about, since this software sits between you and everything you read.
Filtering happens on your own computer. Page text, search terms and images are checked there and are never sent to us. The one thing that reaches our server is a site you explicitly ask us to check — because we cannot scan a page without loading it. Where a subscription is administered by someone else, a school or a parent, that administrator sees the reports for the devices they manage; that is what they are paying for, and it is disclosed on the device.