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Rating Services - PICS PICS, the Platform for Internet Content Selection, is a technological standard which allows web browsers to read the rating labels for, & block, sites based on their rating. Web site operators submit their site for rating by a third-party rating agency. Based upon the information voluntarily submitted by the web site operators about content at the site, the site is rated. PICS then sends them a code that must be added to the HTML coding at the top of their site. While this code is invisible to us, it is read by your browser & allows or denies access to the site, depending upon the rating criteria set in your browser. Microsoft's Internet Explorer versions 3.0 & higher support PICS & Netscape's next version of Navigator will include PICS capability too. That allows good site accessibility, & bad site blocking. Unfortunately, since so few sites are rated, selecting this software means your children can only access the rated "good" sites. Until more sites are rated (an effort we support), we recommend using another parental control system, hopefully, one that supports PICS compatible ratings. |