Another drawback is that the Internet surfing time is impacted, about 2-3 times as long as normal.

Overblocking (websites that should not have been blocked) worked quite well. When you do get a blocked site, there is no immediate override function to get you past the blocked website. This is only a problem if you actually do want to get past the blocked website.

Underblocking (websites that should have been blocked, but were not) was a big problem. The application missed quite a few websites that it should have blocked. These were well known objectionable websites. Most of the foreign language objectionable websites didn’t get blocked when they should have.

IProtectYou had more free parental control options than We-Blocker, the only other free Internet filter product reviewed. These options included blocking chat, Instant Messaging, newsgroups, and popup ads. It didn’t have any peer-to-peer blocking capabilities.

Another drawback with the product is that you don’t get any updates as far as the list of websites to block. This means the product is out-of-date, five minutes after you install it. You have to purchase the iProtectYou “Pro” edition to get the updates.

It is an easy product to install and an easy product to use. The filtering effectiveness leaves a lot to be desired. It does have reporting capabilities for the activity logs. Overall, this Internet filtering product is rated as a fair product. The biggest concern is its inability to effectively block objectionable Internet content.

For this free Internet filtering tool, the common quote comes into play, “You get what you pay for.” Compared to iProtectYou and other purchasable Internet filtering products, We-Blocker would rate as a poor product, a rating of no stars. The biggest drawback to this product was the extreme impact to response time when surfing the web. It takes anywhere from 3-4 times as long to surf. Part of that wait time is probably due to the fact it is a proxy-based URL filtering tool, which means most of the content filtering is occurring on We-Blockers server.

Many times when getting blocked from an objectionable website you would hear a recurring voice sound of “blocked”. This annoying sound would continue to occur on just about every website you visit from that point on, regardless if it should have been blocked or not. This was extremely annoying.

Overblocking (websites that should not have been blocked) occurred quite often, making it quite restrictive in surfing the web. The product even blocked it's own www.we-blocker.com website. There are no override functions at the time of the block. With an available blocking sensitivity setting, you can change the overblocking, but it is difficult to understand where to adjust.

Underblocking (websites that should have been blocked, but were not) worked quite well, except for foreign language websites. It missed most of these.

Numerous times during the review of We-blocker, the product would display server error messages.

There are limited reporting capabilities. Don’t use the reporting activity log to make any determination as to where your child has been, because it is not accurate. It does not display all of the websites visited.

There are no parental controls for blocking or filtering chat, email, peer-to-peer, newsgroups, or Instant Messaging.

Compared to purchasable products, it has a very limited product feature set. It does have individual profiling and password controls. Even though it has a very easy installation process, overall, it has a long way to go to be compared to purchasable Internet filters.