MegaFon allows a father and mother to protect their own kids from unnecessary websites using a special service "Children's Internet". Due to the function, the preschooler will be able to surf the Internet, only on those websites, admission to which is in the snow-white list. In other words, a preschooler can use the Internet and access those websites that have been judged by professionals to be safe media content. The number of resources for use exceeds the number of 500 million websites. In addition, 100,000 newest websites are added every single day. It is noteworthy that a similar function is good specifically for small toddlers by age. The service is designed to prevent kids from visiting prohibited websites. Since the beginning of summer, the technical solution of the Children's Internet service from MegaFon has been significantly updated. In addition to the available capabilities, it will appear before the gaze: safe search, anti-virus scanning, morphological analysis, the likelihood of removing contextual advertising and almost everything else. A fresh service that immediately performs two types of filtering - DNS requests and HTTP traffic, will allow you to block unnecessary media content inside a web blog (stands, advertisements, requests, etc.) without completely closing access to the resource. MegaFon has been providing the Children's Internet service since 2011. The existing version worked on the basis of "black lists", which included websites banned by Roskomnadzor, and similarly pages that came to the attention of a number of public institutions and the operator himself. The list of "prohibited" database consists of more than 500 million websites and is updated once a day (up to 100 thousand websites a day). The new version of the service is able to guarantee the most effective protection against unsafe material on the Internet. The potential audience for the services is about 10 million people. According to the statistics of the Russian Academy of Education, 7 out of 10 babies by the age of 6 already have mobile phones, for this reason, families with children from 6 years of age are considered motivated by the audience of Children's Internet.
Morphological analysis
Subsequently, filtering by "black lists", the web portal to which the player accesses is subjected to morphological analysis. It allows you to inspect Internet pages, including the consequences of queries in the search engine and retrieval systems, for the presence of specific words or expressions that confirm the presence of unnecessary content. This blocks the admission only to content that is likely to be harmful to kids on websites that do not fall into the forbidden category in general terms.
Blocking banners and pop-up windows. The defense system, as a rule, includes a module for restricting the access of banners and pop-up windows. Similarly, the blocking of downloading a number of types of uploaded files is taken into account. The blocking of video material, audio material, images, documents, archives and executable files, Flash has been taken into account.
"Safe Mode" in search engines
The purity of the issuance of queries in search engines (for example, when issuing search results for pictures, when even a safe query can lead to the conclusion of unnecessary material) is ensured by the forced activation of the "safe mode" in the favorite search engines (Google, Yandex, Yahu, Bing, Rambler) , and similarly on the YouTube site. The service is launched at the beginning of June in the North-West branch and then will appear in all MegaFon branches. Subsequently, the introduction of the latest technological filtering processes, the cost price for the subscriber will not change and will amount to 2 rubles per day. The service is connected via the USSD command. Switching off is likely only through the MegaFon salon in the presence of documents, so that the kids without the help of others do not have the opportunity to do this. MegaFon has long been concerned with the safety of the Internet, even for young players. But, taking into account the active growth in the level of Internet penetration and the popularity of the latest technologies among babies, we see that today it is required to apply the latest aspect to filtering unnecessary websites, and not simply limit access to them. Since the Internet for young players is, at first, a huge assistant: specifically as a result of the Internet, access to wide libraries, encyclopedias, educational films and programs is revealed, regardless of where the preschooler is located: in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, the regional center or in a village. And this means that every kid must be able to take advantage of absolutely all the advantages of the Internet, and the guardians must become determined that their preschooler is protected in this environment. Our result for this request is the newest origin of the services "Children's Internet", which allows us to approach the issue of filtering material with reason: to block only unnecessary websites, pictures, stands, links, etc., leaving safe and necessary media content open for child ", - says Yan Kukhalsky, advisor to the chief chief of" MegaFon ".
