158 BLOCKING CATEGORIES!
MuslimSurfer blocks pornography and gambling by default.
For the rest, we let our our brothers and sisters choose from 158 possible categories.
Not all of these categories are haram, far from it!
But they are all very time consuming. And it’s high time to reduce our bulimic screen consumption.
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| Abortion and pregnancy | Sites that talk about: Pregnancy, Abortion, Pregnancy termination, Pro life and Pro choice |
| LGBT | Sites that have a theme regarding LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual), this can come as a primary category or as a descriptive category. |
| Sects | Sites that are about: Sects, Occult, Cults, Cult leaders, Scientology, Church of Satan, Demons, and Secret Societies. |
| Ads | Sites that serve ads, or are an ads agency (ads agency are preferably marketing or marketing/ads, but sometimes it’s impossible to distinguish) |
| Porn | Sites that contain pornographic content. |
| Adult | Sites that contain adult content, either graphically or in text, but is not Pornographic in nature. |
| Adult dating | Sites that deal with adult dating (contains sexual content). |
| Alcohol | Sites that deal with alcohol, this includes: Wine, Brewing, Winemaking, Vineyards, Beer and bars. |
| Astrology | Sites that deal with divination: Astrology, Palmistry, Cold reading methods, Card reading, Tarot and seeing the future. |
| Blogs | Sites that are blogs, if the content of the site is not safe, it will be in another or extra category. |
| Books or comics | Sites that are about: Books, Libraries, Book shops and Author’s pages. |
| Chats | Sites that are mostly online chats, or chat/messaging applications. |
| Classifieds | Classifieds sites, second hand sales/services, yelp. |
| Clothing and fashion | Sites that are about: Clothing/shoes, Fashion, Clothing/shoes shop, Hand bags, clothing/shoes manufacturer. |
| Cooking and food | Sites that are about: Cooking, Food, Non alcoholic beverages, Recipes, Food shopping – excluding restaurants. |
| Dating | Dating sites. |
| Drugs | Sites that are about: Illegal drugs, Dispensaries – although some countries legalized CBD/THC products, it’s still classified as drugs. |
| Education | Sites that belong to: Schools, Kinder gardens, Colleges, Universities and Educational software/guides. |
| Entertainment | Sites about: Movie reviews, Entertainment, Magazines about entertainment, Events, Night life, may contain streaming media, does not contain downloadable media. |
| File hosting | Sites that allow users to host their files for internal use or public sharing, files content isn’t verified (may contain nudity or warez). |
| Finance (Banks_Real estate_Insurance) | Sites that are about: Financial information, Investing, Stock exchange, Credit, Accounting, Payment gateways, business plans and models. |
| Gambling | Sites that have: Gambling games, Sports betting, Betting statistics, Lottery, or gambling information (gambling addictions will be under health). |
| Computer games | Sites that are about computer games or online games (some games can be violent like GTA). |
| Government | Sites that belong to the government or governmental agencies. |
| Hacking | Sites that are about: Hacking, Cracking, Stolen data and mobile jailbreak. |
| Hate | Sites that are about hate toward: Genders, Race, Religion. Also: Pro Nazi. |
| Hobbies | Sites that are about various type of: Hobbies, Crafts, RC Cars, Collectables and also gardening. |
| Home improvement | Sites about: Home improvements, Decorating, Home items and DIY sites. |
| Humor | Sites with: Jokes, Humor related content, and Standup comedy. |
| Hunting and fishing | Sites that are about: Hunting and Fishing information or equipment, Taxidermy and Game (hunting related). |
| Image and video hosting | Sites that give the ability go host images, videos and image/video search engine. |
| Jobs | Sites that are about: Job offers, Job search, HR software, Job/Resume tips and Freelancing job sites. |
| Kids safe | Sites that are just for kids and are safe (sites added to this category is only after human review) |
| Legal | Sites that belong to: Lawyers, Law firms, Courts, Legal documents repository, Identity verification, and sites that give legal advice or tips. |
| Life style and beauty | Sites that talk about: Life style, Beauty, Personal care, Wrist watches, Jewelry, Cosmetics, Perfumes, Personal grooming, Hair/Nail salons and Weddings. |
| Link farm | Sites that has no value and contain various links that will generate the owner money, or parked domains. May contain pornography. |
| Local | Sites about local information: City information, State information, Law enforcement and Fire fighters. If the second category is news, then it’s local news. |
| Medical | Sites that talk about medical and health information. |
| Military | Sites with .mil or military related |
| Mixed adult | Sites that have mixed content, some safe and some not, but is not outright adult content so it can’t be categorized as such. |
| Mobile | Sites that are about: Mobile devices, Cater only to mobile, Cellular phone sellers and manufacturers. |
| Models | Sites that contains images and information about: Models, Modelling and Models agency. |
| Music | Sites that are about: Music, Music magazines, Lyrics, Bands, Musical instruments and free music download (free songs, samples, effects). |
| News and magazines | Sites that are about: News, Newspaper sites. Some news site can contain many themes in their main page beside news. |
| Not safe | No category found for site, but site was found to be not safe, usually because it uses “shady” advertisement that has unsafe content. |
| Online drugs | Sites that offer to sell drugs like: Viagra, Pain killers, Narcotics, Anabolic Steroids. |
| Online marketing | Sites that are related to: Online marketing, Email marketing services, Web analytics, Ads providers (but is not an ad serving domain). |
| Online video or audio |
Sites that has streaming audio and video (for example tv/radio sites, movie clips sites, podcasts), will not contain porn sites, but some content may still be inappropriate, for example youtube.com. Pirated content will be in its own categories.
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| Pets and animals | Sites that talk about Pets and animals |
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| Phishing | Sites that contain phishing and other content that is scam based. |
| Politics | Sites that are about: Political opinion, Politics, Politics news, Politicians, Parliament parties, and protests. |
| Portals | Sites that are portals or magazines that may contain number of categories (some may be related to fashion or intimate apparel) |
| Profanity | Sites that contain Islam profanity |
| Proxy | Sites that provide information or service to tunnel web traffic and cause webfilter bypass: Tor, Proxy lists, Proxy/VPN providers. |
| Religion | Sites that about: Other religion, Spirituality and Religion practices. |
| Science | Sites that are about: Science, Mathematics, Research papers and companies/organizations that are involved in Science research. |
| Search engines | Search engines sites, search result may contain unsafe content, our engine is able to classify the search based on the search keywords |
| Semi nude and pin up | Site that are about intimate fashion and apparel but in context of the images rather then shopping for them, also celebrity gossip with high percent of underwear and swimwear, this category can be treated for age 16+. |
| Sex education and sexuality | Sites that talk about: Sex educations, Sexuality, Sexual procedures, Reproduction tract related issues. |
| Shopping | Shopping, Coupons and online auctions sites. |
| Social networks | Sites that offer social networks services. |
| Spam or scam | Sites that has no value, trying to con the user, money from home schemes. |
| Sports | Sites that are about: Sports, Car/Motorcycle racing, Sports streaming (will also be tagged with streaming) and Horse racing. |
| Suicide | Sites that talk about suicide, suicide prevention or pro suicide. |
| Vacation and travel | Sites that talk about: Travel, Vacations, Holidays, Holidays’ bookings, Hotels, Air lines, Attractions and Museums. |
| Vehicles | Sites that talk about: Cars, Boats, Planes, Bikes, Trucks, Trains, Space shuttles, Motorcycles and all other forms of vehicles. |
| Violence | Sites that contain violent content or extreme profanity. |
| Virus infected | Sites that are infected with viruses, we are not a security company, this is a small list with manual entries. |
| Warez | Sites that contain: Torrents, Warez, Software cracks. It may or may not also contain adult content. |
| Weapons | Sites that talk and/or sell: Weapons, Guns, Knives, and Army memorabilia. It may overlap with Tactical category for sites that are selling both weapons and tactical equipment. |
| Web mail | Sites that offer web mail as a service. |
| Reference | Sites that are: Dictionary, Maps, Translation, Calculators, Thesaurus, Wiki, Wikipedia and General information sites. |
| Philosophy and psychology | Sites about: Philosophy, Psychology, Psychological/Cognitive tests and Psychological issues. |
| History | Sites about: Historical events, Historical figures and past wars. |
| Nonsense and time waste |
Sites that have many articles about: Memes, Movies and pictures that are mostly time waste, Viral jokes or a site with many articles in the form of “10 ways to “, “do this to become” even if it’s on a subject as health. Some sites will have a secondary category of Semi nude or Mixed nude because of their content.
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| Swimsuits and underwear | Sites that sell, show or talk about swimsuits, Lingerie and Underwear, these sites contain images of people wearing them. Shopping sites with underwear and swimsuit will fall under this category. |
| Arts | Sites about: Arts, Arts museums, Plays, Paintings, Poems, and Artists. |
| Actors and models | This category appears only when filtering search results it will appear when the search result is an actor/model. |
| Surveys and polls | Website that offer surveys and polls services. Nonsense polls and are in the Nonsense category. |
| Tobacco | Sites that are about: Tobacco, Smoking (not drugs), Cigarettes, Cigars, Vaping and E Cigarettes. |
| Bypass protection | Sites that are used to bypass parental controls software and components, VPN and Proxies fall under the Proxy category. |
| Search block | Used for search phrases only, this indicates the search should be blocked. Unlike phrases that fall under a known category, some keyword could be both “good” and “bad”, so they are classified as Search block. |
| Image block | Used for search results only, the sites may host bad images, usually an image hosting site, not relevant if software is not processing each image inside the search engine image search. |
| Desktop themes | Sites that offer: Screensavers, Desktop themes, E cards, Greeting cards, and Social sites covers. |
| Depress domain | Sites that are about sad topics such as : Obituaries, Cemeteries, Crematorium, Funerals, Jail, Prison, Disasters and more. |
| Depress page | Will only appear at page level classification, it indicates the same as Depress domain, only at a page level (for example an article about a disaster in CNN). |
| Parenting and family | Sites that talk about: Parenting, Baby showers. |
| School cheats | Sites that offer ready made works for students, or custom work. |
| Celebrity gossip | Sites that are about celebrity gossip, if contains nudity, it will come with an additional category that indicates it. |
| How to | Sites that are user generated content with “How to” guides, if contains adult content, it will come with an additional category that indicates it. |
| Illegal | Sites that offer illegal products like fake IDs, diplomas, etc (sites for drugs, warez, weapons are under their own category). |
| Recreation | Sites that are about: Recreation and Outdoors and which are not sports related. |
| Money spam | Sites that deal with making money online, or aggressive sales pitch with a squeeze page, this niche is highly abused and sites in this category should be treated as possible spam/scam. |
| Weather | Sites that talk about the weather |
| Knowledge | Sites that: Provide general paid knowledge, Online courses, Frontal training. |
| KidsEntertainment | Sites that are entertainment for kids |
| Nature | Sites that are about: Nature or the Environment. |
| Diet | Sites that are about: Diet, Weight loss and Weight gain. |
| Anorexy | Sites that are about: Anorexy, Bulemia, and eating disorders. |
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| SelfHelp | Sites that are about: Self help, Motivational speakers, Meditation and Relaxation. |
| Relationships | Sites that talk about: Romantic relationships, Dating advice, Marriage advice and Pickup but do not offer dating services sites. |
| Paranormal | Sites that talk about paranormal topics like: UFO, Ghosts, Clairvoyance and conspiracy theory. |
| Marketing or ads | Sites that ad agencies, and it’s possible that the domain name also serves ads. |
| Magazines | Magazines sites (could be online magazines or a site for offline magazines), may contain another category if possible to denote the magazine category. |
| Forums | Forums or groups site. |
| User generated content | Sites that contain user generated content which are not blogs or forums. |
| Tele Communications | Home site of Tele Communications companies, which provide number of services such as: ISP, Cellular, Cable, Satellite, TV. |
| Gender specific | Sites that have content aimed for a specific gender, for example, men’s magazine, or women’s portal. |
| Annoyances | Sites that are annoying, mostly popups, this category is provided for PerPageSDK only. |
| Crime | Sites that are about crime (either covering it, or giving crime instructions) |
| Person | Sites that are about a specific person (not applies to music, sports, entertainment related people) |
| Grief | Sites that are about: Grief, Loss and Grief/Loss support. |
| Retirement | Sites that are about: Retirement, and Retirements homes. |
| Other drugs |
Sites that are about drugs that are not part of the Drugs Online drugs category, these are drugs that are legal. (because legality is different between countries, the decision is based on the views of the classifier, if you need an exact list of the drugs, contact us)
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| Pharmacy | Online pharmacy sites. |
| Songs download | Sites that offer songs/mp3 download (can be pirate site, if contains other pirated content it will marked as Warez instead) |
| Lookup | Sites that offer various lookup and reverse lookup of: Emails, Domains, IPs, Phone numbers and People. |
| Movies download | Sites that offer movies/series download or online streaming (can be pirate site, if contains other pirated content it will marked as Warez instead) |
| Consumer reviews | Consumer and products review sites |
| Legal movies | Sites that legally host/stream full length movies and series |
| Legal songs | Sites that legally host/stream music |
| Bitcoin | Bitcoin and other crypto currency related sites |
| Photography | Sites belong to photographers or about photography |
| Toys | Sites that are about: Children toys, Dolls, and Board games. |
| Restaurant | Sites that belong to: Restaurant, Food ordering, Cafe or similar food selling establishments |
| Fitness | Sites that are about fitness, like: Yoga, Bodybuilding, Weightlifting, Diet in context of fitness and Fitness. |
| Contact sport | Sites that are about violent sports, like: Martial arts, WWE, UFC and MMA. |
| Dancing | Sites that are about dancing |
| Registry cleaner | Sites that belong to registry cleaners or uninstallers |
| Online security | Sites that belong to security product like: Anti Virus or firewall, or are about online security |
| Real estate | Sites that are about: Real estate, Realtors or House rentals |
| Loans | Sites that offer: Loans, Mortgages and Debt consolidation |
| Forex | Sites that talk about or offer: Forex or Binary options services |
| Banks | Banking sites |
| Insurance | Sites that offer insurance |
| Supplements | Sites that are about or selling: Nutritional supplements, protein powders |
| Tatoo | Sites that are about: Tattoos, Body modification, Body painting, Piercing, Service providers that provide all of those, and Image galleries of all of those. |
| Tactical equipment | Sites that sell: Tactical gear, Body armor, Survival gear, Security gear. Also Preping and Survival information sites |
| Alternative medicine | Sites that are about alternative medicine |
| AI | Sites that are about AI (artificial intelligence) or offer such services |
| Comics | Sites that are about: Comics, Comics shop |
| Manga | Sites that are about Manga (Some manga sites are for adults only, this should be considered an adult category) |
| Racism education | Sites that educate or explain what is (but not promoting): Racism, Anti Semitism, Holocaust, Holocaust denial. |
| Payment | Sites that are about: Payment gateway, Payment sites. |
| Brokerage | Sites that are about: Buying Stocks, Stock exchange, Stock tips. |
| Anime | Sites that are streaming anime. |
| Cartoon | Sites that are streaming cartoons. |
| Grownups | Sites that are not adult, but not suitable for children either. |
| Stream converter | Sites that offer to download movies/songs from streaming sites like Youtube. |
| File converter | Sites that offer online file converters and editors for example: PDF editors, image converters. |
| TV Personality | Sites that are about TV personalities that are not celebs. |
| Radio Personality | Sites that are about Radio personalities that are not celebs. |
| Youtube Personality | Sites that are about Youtube personalities that are not celebs. |
| Prevent crime or violence | Sites that talk about ending/stopping/preventing crime of violence acts, also for various government task forces. |