WebMinder was a content blocking system implemented in the UK by Brightview Internet Services and used on their ISPs such as

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, Global Internet and Waitrose.Com. It was similar in purpose to Cleanfeed, BT's blocking system and used a list from the

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. In addition to this it claimed to stop images from these sites being transmitted as email attachments. WebMinder was a two-stage process using

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version 2 (WCCPv2). and was architecturally similar to Cleanfeed. WebMinder was retired after BT's purchase of the Brightview Group in 2007,BT opens wallet for Brightview
/ref> and the ISP's using it were moved to BT's Cleanfeed system.

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