> preventing access to sites that distract employees and have zero business value (pornography, gambling, etc.)...
This is simplistic and almost certainly leads to overblocking.
Blocking a gambling domain sounds innocent on the surface but what if the gambling company publishes an article in their corporate blog to share how they solved a specific scaling problem or what money data modelling lessons they've learned?
It has happened to me more than once that I tried to read an article that was immediately relevant to my work but was denied access due to naive domain overblocking.
This is simplistic and almost certainly leads to overblocking.
Blocking a gambling domain sounds innocent on the surface but what if the gambling company publishes an article in their corporate blog to share how they solved a specific scaling problem or what money data modelling lessons they've learned?
It has happened to me more than once that I tried to read an article that was immediately relevant to my work but was denied access due to naive domain overblocking.
Please stop normalizing this shit.