Google-chrome – How to get around geographic restrictions viewing online content

Microsoft Family Safety (part of the Live Essentials suite) has this feature. You can BLOCK ALL except for the list of sites that you maintain.

To enable this feature:

• select the user in question
• go to Web Filtering
• turn on web filtering
• move the slider all the way up to "Allow List Only"

Separately you can maintain the list of sites that you allow in "Web Filtering Lists".

Chrome blocks some insecure high-risk content (javascript) and allows other lower risk content (images)

Visit this strange ie mixed content test page, and look at the javascript console. You can see that images are displayed (with warnings in the console) but insecure scripts are blocked.

This is ok, but not great. A malicious man-in-the-middle could still track a user in this way. I'd still like the option to block all of the insecure content.

Firefox 23+ also has this feature (verified by me on the test page above in Firefox 24) in that it blocks the javascript (which firefox call "active content", but not the images "passive content").

With respect to Gmail specifically, I found this life hacker article on gmail security icons. which explained that I probably downloaded external images into an email... which triggers the warning, and because Gmail is a single page app, and doesn't normally reload, the yellow padlock never goes away. Refresh the page, and it goes green again.