Categories of web content (hereinafter also called the "categories") on the list below have been selected to provide the maximum level of detail in describing blocks of information published on web resources while considering their functionality and themes. The order of the listed categories does not reflect their relative significance or occurrence on the Internet. The names of the categories are conventional and used only for the goals of Kaspersky programs and Web sites. The names do not necessarily correspond to the meanings assigned to them under applicable law. One web resource may be related to several categories at a time.
Provided below is an aggregate list of website categories. The list of categories for specific Kaspersky products may be different.
This category includes the following types of websites:
Also includes web resources with the following contents:
This category does not include encyclopedias and educational websites where children and/or teens are the intended audience.
This category includes web resources whose content is directly or indirectly related to alcoholic or alcohol-containing products, tobacco products, and narcotic, psychotropic and/or intoxicating substances:
This category includes web resources addressing scientific and medical topics.
This category includes web resources containing any photo, video or text materials describing acts of physical or psychological violence directed against human beings, or cruel treatment of animals:
This category does not include educational portals, encyclopedias, web pages of governmental institutions or official press and newspaper websites.
This category includes web resources where profane language has been detected. Overlaps the "Adult content" category. This category also includes web resources with linguistic and philological materials containing profanity as the subject of study.
Weapons, explosives, pyrotechnics
This category includes web resources with information about military, weapons, explosives, and pyrotechnical products:
The term "weapons" means appliances, items, and means designed to harm the life or health of humans and animals and/or damage equipment and structures. It includes replica weapons and airsoft guns. This category does not include educational portals, encyclopedias, web pages of governmental institutions or official press and newspaper websites.
This category includes web resources designed to bring together employers and job seekers:
This category includes web resources that provide information or tools to download the content of other web resources for the purposes of:
This category includes both web resources with content intended for the aforementioned purposes (VPNs, "anonymizers", etc.) and web resources with technically similar functionality.
This category includes web resources where users can download software packages.
This subcategory includes websites of torrent trackers intended for sharing files of unlimited size.
This subcategory includes file sharing websites irrespective of the physical location of files being distributed.
This subcategory includes web resources distributing audio and video materials: movies, recordings of sports broadcasts, recordings of concerts, songs, movie clips, videos, tutorial audio and video recordings, etc.
Gambling, lotteries, sweepstakes
This category includes web resources that offer users to participate financially in gambling, even if such financial participation is not a mandatory condition for access to the website. This category includes web resources offering:
This category includes games that offer free-of-charge participation as a separate mode, as well as web resources that actively advertise web resources falling into this category to users.
This category includes web resources that enable users (whether registered or not) to send personal messages to other users of the relevant web resources or other online services and/or add content (either open to public access or restricted) to the relevant web resources on certain terms.
This subcategory includes exclusively login pages of an email service and mailbox pages containing emails and associated data (such as personal contacts). This category does not include other web pages of an Internet service provider that also offers email service.
This subcategory includes websites designed for building, displaying, and managing contacts between persons, organizations, and governments, which require registration of a user account as a condition of participation.
This subcategory includes web resources intended for public discussion of various topics using special web applications, as well as web resources designed to distribute or support instant messaging applications that enable real-time communication.
This subcategory includes blog platforms, which are websites that provide paid or free services for creating and maintaining blogs.
This subcategory includes web resources serving as a variety of social networks providing paid or free services. Overlaps the "Adult content" and "Online stores, banks, payment systems" categories.
Online stores, banks, payment systems
This category includes web resources designed for any online transactions in non-cash monetary funds using special-purpose web applications.
This subcategory includes online shops and auctions selling any goods, work or services to individuals and/or legal entities, including websites of stores that conduct sales exclusively online and online profiles of physical stores that accept online payments.
This subcategory includes specialized web pages of banks with online banking functionality, including wire (electronic) transfers between bank accounts, making bank deposits, performing currency conversion, paying for third-party services, etc.
This subcategory includes web pages of e-money systems that provide access to the user's personal account. In technical terms, payment can be made using both bank cards of any type (plastic or virtual, debit or credit, local or international) and e-money. Web resources can fall into this category regardless of whether or not they have such technical aspects as data transmission over the SSL protocol, the use of 3D Secure authentication, etc.
This subcategory includes websites offering services for buying and selling cryptocurrency as well as informational services concerning cryptocurrencies and mining.
This category includes web resources devoted to videogames of various genres:
Religions, religious associations
This category includes web resources with materials on public movements, associations, and organizations with a religious ideology and/or cult in any manifestations:
This category includes web resources with public news content created by the mass media or online publications that let users add their own news reports:
The category includes ads banners on websites and in the interface of some applications.
Web resources blocked by legislation in individual countries.
Web resources blocked by legislation in the Russian Federation.
Web resources blocked by the Belgian Gaming Commission.
Web resources provided upon agreement with the Japanese police.
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