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Just a warning, I clicked on the virgin killer link to Wikipedia. I wish I hadn't done that. That album cover could be illegal in the UK where I'm based. I'm genuinely worried.

I'm now trying to figure out how to remove the image from android Firefox history. Not sure if deleting history will remove it

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The virgin killer wikipedia page is what exposed the IWF's internet censorship about 15 years ago, since it was causing all UK wikipedia access to go via a transparent proxy to 'seamlessly' remove that page from the site. After a short outcry they had to remove the wikipedia block for the page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...

The thing that scares me is that although the iwf backed down. They aren't saying it's legal. I'm genuinely concerned some sort of ISP level monitoring could red flag me for visiting that page.

At this point millions of people have probably visited that page, red flagging them all would just render the flag as useless.

That's a good point. Thanks

I would assume that the UK authorities working on protecting children have better things to do than going against citizens clicking on a Wikipedia link and regretting it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_in_the_Un...

You're overthinking it.

But anyway, firefox has an option to delete history, cache, cookies. Settings/Delete browsing data.

If you are really paranoid, go to the firefox app page, storage, click clear cache, clear data (will reset to default)

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