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To eliminate support calls I would simply design a system where any place they went FROM their email would work - maybe up to 3 or 4 links past email.

And of course monitor account usage and call up tech-savvy granddads who email themselves youtube videos to get around the block.

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So not only do you want to snoop your legitimate customer's traffic, you also want to own their personal computers at a level that would allow you to make that distinction? I find that disgusting.

Also, I don't think I've ever heard such a misuse of the word "simply"

>To eliminate support calls I would simply design a system where any place they went FROM their email would work - maybe up to 3 or 4 links past email.

What? What constitutes a "link"? This doesn't make any sense.

be on gmail -> click google images picture -> click caption link to small video -> click another youtube video -> ERROR

4 links away from gmail - not allowed. Pretty simple

How are you determining this without sniffing everyone's traffic? How do you know if someone typed youtube.com into their browser window or clicked a link from an email without access to things like referral headers?

this is basically entirely incompatible with SSL

NN does not unfairly inconvenience you. You are the type of person NN exists to stop.

Sorry, not interested in giving it up so you can bilk and spy on the elderly.

After reading a variety of the parent's comments, I agree with you.

In this scenario, how would you handle software patches requested by the user's OS?

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