In the early 2000s, my school attempted to implement a very rudimentary learning algorithm in their website blocking program. Obviously the word "porn" was blocked, but if you typed "hardcore porn" it would then add "hardcore" to its list of banned words. The problem was this spiralled out of control very quickly, as "hardcore science" would then block the word "science", then "high school science" would then block the words "high" and "school". Needless to say, this algorithm had to be removed after just a few hours.
That is the stupidest possible algorithm I’ve ever heard of, I legitimately want to know why the developers of it even slightly thought that would work, even if they had .003% of a brain cell, a troglodyte would know that wouldn’t work
"hardcore porn" "minecraft hardcore mode" "mean median and mode" "kids at school are being mean to me" "how to tell if you're failing in school" Now you can barely search anything.
Fun fact: when the google dinosaur game came out the message if it was blocked said “fun has been blocked by administrator” before they were forced into changing it
Our school tablets literally can’t save any work you’ve done. My friend wanted to have a presentation about something and the day before the tablet just deleted all her work
In 3rd grade I got ahold of the settings app on my school iPad. Managed to apply so many settings it became impossible for me to log back in and I had to use a different one for the rest of the year 💀
My elementary school blocked the Google Snake game off all computers because there was a group of boys who would play it in class instead of doing work. However, because the snake game is built into Google itself, the school had to use an old version of Google instead. This version sucked. It barely worked most of the time and when it did work, it was slow and wouldn't load correctly. They couldn't change browsers because the whole online part of that school ran out of Google. Google Docs, Gmail, Google Classroom, etc. So everyone had to suffer this old, awful Google. The best part? The boys still found a way to play Google Snake so the entire change was for nothing.
We usually have dance with a cover teacher (substitute teacher for yall who call it that) on the computers, so people just play those games instead of working and get confused if the teacher tells them to work. If it's a good cover teacher they won't even care. Popular games include snake and flappy crus, that shitty game where you just murder flappy birds with the space bar as more and more blood splatters on the teeth of the pipe crushing them.
They hadn’t figured out blocking when I was in school. But at a job that was super strict (a call center), they’d auto-block any website that was accessed too often. This included google, the local transit system, and every single website we relied on to do our jobs. Like the site of the company we answered calls for.
My school got a new filter which automatically blocks websites from other countries, this is a problem when you’re trying to do research on France and the website is blocked because it’s “categorized as France”
My school blocked Skyward and Canvas for a period of time. For those who don’t know, Skyward is where we check our grades and Canvas is where I am required to turn in 99.73% of my assignments.
Our school accidentally blocked Skyward and Apex Learning for 3 HOURS before fixing it, and announcing that they messed up. Fun day that was. If you don't know, Apex Learning is the site that they have us do credit recovery work on.
The kfc one actually brought me back to grade 2. It’s not banned in my school but I remember one of my friends ordering kfc to the school. WITH THE TEACHERS CREDIT CARD
My favorite block categories I've seen personally are: Friendship, education, collaborative work, and perhaps my personal favorite "[Students full name] please stop trying to get around the filter, we can see everything you do and at this point just check every site you visit. It's getting boring just stop." Which was applied to every site for five minutes one day.
Okay, for people who didn’t go through an edgy “play the games on the PETA website” phase, let me tell you, the PETA website is absolutely blocked for a reason! My home computer had an army of parental blocks, and when my mom saw me playing the “children’s” games on that site, she was *horrified* because those cute cartoon games are nothing but gore! Calling the PETA website “mature” is more than fair lmao
@@kaydwessie296Actually, in the context of school, blocking websites that exist mainly for entertainment (i.e: Coolmath Games) is actually quite logical. Gotta make sure the students pay attention to the class!
I remember those!!! Saw RUclipsrs play it instead of actually playing it myself but I always thought they were really edgy fan games. Did not make me vegan though, so I win aha
@@dadfixthis2998My school's computer class existed solely to get kids comfortable with using computers. Many of us came from impoverished households without home computers (this was before smartphones, too). Once the teacher made sure we all knew how to power it on, move the mouse and double click, that was all and we were left to our own devices, no class to pay attention to. Games on computers play a huge role in getting kids comfortable and familiar with using them. My teachers installed several games on the computer for that purpose. They didn't mind us being on flash game websites either. But whenever a specific website became popular, the teachers freaked out about 'mass minded thinking' and banned it. The same way they banned physicsl trends like playing spinning tops, too.
I was cyber schooled up until high school and my parents put a ton of child protective locks on the school laptops we were given. The web browser lock had such amazing blocks as keeping me from viewing lace fabric because the word "lace" is "sexually explicit" and blocking my sibling from visiting the site "guitars exchange" because it has the word "sex" in it. My mom recently said, sincerely and with deep regret, that she hadn't blocked enough on our computers as kids and that's why we turned out the way we did. Much to both of our dismay, I laughed in her face before I realized she was being serious. edit: I forgot my high school also banned all social media on their wifi. By the end of the day almost everyone had a VPN on their phone and was using social media as normal. Some people also used VPNs to watch porn in class. Weird times.
This isn’t exactly a website, but my school blocked the entire local storage system in our computers, so we couldn’t save anything locally. They want us to store everything on our drive in the network, but then when a server issue comes along, all of our hard work during the lesson cannot be saved and is lost for time
At a school I went to they had to send out an announcement that ordering pizza for class parties during finals week was not allowed. Really sad, too, because it was banned right before my class where I was going to have a party involving snacks (many classes had already taken their finals before their official final test time slot, so many people were left with hours of doing nothing)
My school is very authoritarian with their computers, if you go on a site they don’t like, instead of blocking that site they block LITERALLY everything from the computer (including their own website, the google homepage, google classroom and all that) it’s so dumb, like “Oh you’re playing games because you finished your work? WELL NOW YOU CANT DO YOUR WORK! HOW DO YA LIKE THAT!”
My school has a similar system. It blocks EVERYTHING on your computer with a screen saying your computer was locked. It’s incredibly easy to evade by just turning your computer off and back on again so it’s actually pointless
Most of these are examples of the “Scunthorpe problem” where access was limited for certain words because they have swear words within them, even if the words themselves are appropriate. The name originated from Scunthorpe, a British town whose inhabitants couldn’t sign up to AOL because their town name had the word “cunt” in it.
This wasn't necessarily something that was blocked, but every student was flagged for searching up "suspicious things" because we were reading an article about ww2
One time the dean of students asked me why I was looking up guns on my school iPad. I had no idea what he was talking about, and he said “Yeah, some website called American Eagle.” 😂
I had the inverse of this, where one of the teachers attempted to demonstrate a blocked site by visiting Playboy's website, and found out in front of the class that it _wasn't_ blocked.
this reminds me of the time i was looking up how to build jet-packs/fan-packs and in the recommended advertisement's was websites for the purchase of sex toys it was kinda funny as i myself wasn't googling it and instead it was a helpful teacher that was interested in what i wanted to look up i don't know any other facts about it but i guess someone looked up that topic before and then forgot to clear the cache and then the computer went oh you were looking up nsfw stuff earlier are you still interested? this was back in 2007 i think? and both myself and the teacher both knew i was not looking up that kinda stuff before hand so we kinda laughed it off and i stuck it in the back of my mind i was the one to point the ads out and we both knew someone else had done this as she woke the computer up but i was like 12 and i knew it was nsfw and went if i wanted to look this up i'd use my own personal laptop and not use a unsafe school computer that would certainly be able to pinpoint the exact moment someone typed that in or at least someone searching it
A guy in my class literally opened (until a couple images began popping in) a "very bad website with kids wearing ill fitting clothing" (I guess to be edgy or something) in a full room. Not blocked, was on the regular internet. Was a lucky bastard for the teacher and everyone else to not see it. Years later, I just wonder how and WHY the hell he found out about that site.
Back when I was in school I used a remote desktop software to access and control my home computer to get around blocks. Kept the viewer on a usb drive and could use it from any school computer. No one was ever the wiser. Helps that I didn't abuse it too, so no teachers looking at my screen would notice anything was amiss.
my secondary school blocked cool maths games for the oddest reason, apparently someone in our class found a glitch on that website to bypass the school blocking system, so he did that glitch to go to a certain hub, and when the school found out, they just blocked cool math games, but didn’t do anything to the kid that did that
My dad actually had some parental control restrictions on my phone. For backstory, I was looking up conditioners that didn’t contain an ingredient my hair dislikes, which is silicone. I looked up “silicone free conditioners” and it was blocked. The reason?: some breast implants are made of silicone. I didn’t even know this. My dad was afraid of me looking at boobs. I’m a girl
At least he’s progressive I guess, but literally how the hell are you supposed to avoid silicone that crap is used in the manufacturing of everything I swear. And what if your kid takes an interest in computers? Silicone is one of the most important materials in computers, you just can’t block silicone
If, according to your comment saying that some implants are made from silicone, and that you are a girl, it's possible that it wasn't that they wanted to avoid you looking at breasts, but rather they wanted to avoid you getting an implant in yours
My school blocked the word “fail” because kids were looking up fail compilations, which seems fine and dandy until you realize that around 50% of the questions you’d look up in history class use it.
One time I was researching incendiary weapons during elective which was just a homework help class for kids with IEPs, and I was immediately hit with the "Webpage Blocked" screen. I narrowed it down to the word napalm. I know that TUSD just didn't want their students committing warcrimes, but if your going to block the term napalm, at least block their searches when their friend searches up "xxx" on their computer.
you know about the famous Super Bowl Xxx incident...right? well, all searches about that Superb owl were blocked WORLDWIDE! hmmm....he maybe wanted to watch rugby.
i don't think "kids committing war crimes" is something to be concerned over but i do think violence/mass genocide/etc is more inappropriate than boobies, yet schools make sure kids definitely know all about war but don't want them to know where their clitoris is.
the dinosaur game being blocked is more common than you think it is. the nyc department of education is so strict it won't let any public school in nyc play the dinosaur game (let alone any school, including private ones), it won't let you view a google doc outside of your school's email, and it won't let you change your profile picture
A friend of mine tried to watch an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog junior year but the computer blocked it because it was classified as "porn". "Courage the Cowardly Porn Star" became an inside joke for us that year.
@@user-nl3xw4gg7m That one episode about domestic abuse between the cat and her abusive dog boyfriend, maybe? It was a weird show. Could've contained literal porn at some point for all I know.
At my school, Scratch was blocked because you could supposedly use the code to bypass the chromebook light speed internet filter so you can go to blocked websites.
My 9th grade English teacher had us use a website called Citation Machine to help us learn how to formate citations for our papers. I tried to use it once on the school computer but it was blocked, so I called him over to show him. He then proceeded to yell, out loud, the reason the site was labeled as blocked: "PORNOGRAPHIC CONTENT??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?"
my 8th grade social studies teacher somehow managed to block the entire google site. not just docs or meets or anything, but the google home page itself. if you logged into your chromebook and clicked on google it’d say “this site has been blocked by an administrator.” she couldn’t figure out how to fix it so we got like 2 free periods since my school does pretty much everything online. also, the reason she blocked google was because she was trying to get this one boy to stop looking at pictures of pickles during class. like, the vegetable. no clue why he was looking at pickles during social studies, and no clue how she managed to block the entirety of google but it was hilarious
in my school, bing is blocked under the school firewall if I recall the reason it was that the network can't auto set safe search options at the time (not sure if it can now, an example of this thing is youtube being auto set to restricted mode on school networks and such) anyways, because microsoft edge is the default browser, and changing the search engine is tiny bit hidden (go to search settings, then go into a sub menu), just made most people use the google chrome pre installed instead (also another fun thing, they try to block extensions on the browsers, (using admin policys) but it ended up lifting it self becuase the policy it was uses got deprecated and then removed from chrome, meaning extensions don't get blocked)
I remember one time a kid got caught in class scrolling instagram on the school computers, so the teachers had enough and blocked EVERYTHING. Accidentally they also blocked important things like certain math websites, OPENING A NEW TAB, and other stuff like that. They fixed it so the next day we could do those things, but having a background is blocked, news websites we need for assignments is blocked, yt I need for tutorials and help is blocked, etc. I spent the whole day playing snake on the computer, because for some reason the google games weren’t blocked.
My school has blocked everything fun. All well known game websites, youtube, social media platforms, minecraft, steam, other games you can download, anime sites, manga sites, game wikis, etc. Most students are either playing the crappy games on scratch, or are looking for those totally not suspicious game sites that have random numbers and letters mixed together. Fun times.
My school blocked the Children's Internet Protection Act, and then cited the Children's Internet Protection Act as the reason why. They also blocked government sites because they classified as "Business", and also the search query "cipa" to prevent us looking up CIPA.
Right, I’m gonna have to recommend you read some George Orwell, immediately. Start with Animal Farm (I swear they aren’t boring reads) because George Orwell often breaks down how a totalitarian government forms in his books, and what your school is doing reminds me of thag
@@graydonweber9825 Bruh I'm just recommending someone else an author's work jokingly because their school is on a power trip no need to be so pretentious
My school has a history of weird blockings. At first almost everything was unblocked, im pretty sure some kid looked up h3nta1 once and never got found out. Then they started blocking all of the game sites (cookie clicker, cool math, etc). Then they started blocking youtube videos categorized in gaming. Then it became a toss up with a weighted dice if the website you wanted to use research on was blocked. Then they blocked the category music altogether (which is really, REALLY stupid because our school has an extremely big music program). Then, a few days ago, it was discovered that our school blocked youtube altogether. It doesnt come up with the same "blocked by administration" message as the rest though, the website just will keep loading forever. A good chunk of the teachers here use youtube for things from an assignment, to uploading the tests on there and putting the videos in google forms for us to answer. Point is, our school has actively done everything it can to stop us from learning. The system is so flawed that sometimes it randomly blocks the site we use to check our grades. Im surprised it hasnt blocked wikipedia yet
I remember my senior year of high school we had to do an argumentative essay and one kid kept trying to find sources on his topic but couldn’t find any so he decided to commit to the bit and do his whole paper on censorship (I was also committing to a bit because I chose to do my paper on collective punishment after something happened in class that I do NOT remember. Shoutout to the kid who told me I should write my paper on that because I’m now in college writing YET ANOTHER PAPER on collective punishment)
My high school didn’t block anything, it just sent reports to the school library about which device numbers were searching “inappropriate topics.” While I was working there as an assistant, some of the amazing results I saw flagged were: “Amethyst Crystal” “Tits for Tats” “Gerald Ford” “Cleverbot Sex” “Lapras”
Not something my school blocked, but something very petty and dumb about my school. They didn't allow highschool students to have any facial hair due to the reasoning "it makes it easier to tell the difference between the students and teachers." Boys also weren't allowed to have hair past their shoulders because it "was distracting." A student and his mother drove to the school parking lot and shaved his head on the school grounds in a bout of malicious compliance, and the video even made it on the news. Tomball Memorial High School, class of '17.
My school once blocked the word "snake" This same system caused me to get an entire class's computers to be blocked entirely and completely unusuable all because i needed a PBS article unblocked. at a state level, the internet archive/wayback machine (an educational resource) is blocked for "resources"
I remember my high school blocked Minecraft, but some of the kids that were in my class found that the education version was allowed. Played that whenever I could for my last year or two of school
Reminds me of the time when I moved in with my father at 12, got my very first iPad (no phone till 17 and a half years old) and he blocked every single website in existence except for google search results page (and ONLY google search results page), and pbs kids. This was all the way until I turned 17. Couldn’t do certain homework or project assignments that required to be finished at home, and teachers didnt listen when I told them my father refused to remove locks on my iPad, so I’d promptly receive Fs on grades, which would make my father angry. I wasn’t allowed to stay at school after hours or I’d be in trouble, this included staying for detention, which my teachers had to ask for permission to keep me after school for. So that wasn’t an option to get projects done, I’d have to do it in between classes or skip certain classes to go to the computer lab/libray and do it. Needless to say my childhood was miserable.
I would have just went fuk it an just camped out somewhere see is thinking I ran away would change there mind if not a least it was a nice break from the emotion trauma
did you ever bring the iPad into school and show them? could’ve maybe counted as ab*se that he was withholding your education, especially if he then got mad at your grades.
we once had the opposite problem: a teacher wanted to show us that some websites are blocked and ended up accidentally showing porn to a classroom of ten year olds
It was more than 5 years since I was at middle school, but on my middle school's laptops, RUclips was blocked on all of the student logins. The reason, I don't even know. Weirdly enough, the iPads don't have any restrictions and you can install RUclips from the App Store, so I did exactly that and blasted memes in the classroom!
My school got a new blocking system a few months ago, for some reason they block even the most harmless of searches. One of the most ridiculous things they blocked were cool math games and searching up Tim Burton. They still haven’t fixed it.
As a teacher, the dedication schools show to blocking anything, that has even the most remote chance of bringing joy to students, never stops to amaze me.
I am normally an anti-teacher man (and by that I just mean that I genuinely believe teachers and doctors are exactly the same in that they have vulnerable people in their charge whom they frequently abuse while receiving praise for doing so, and so I am equally as fed up with and weary about teachers as I am with doctors), however, I will say that I've heard a significant amount of people discussing how parenting trends and modern technology is affecting youth's attention span and ability to respect authority. Which...Idk man I remember it being bad when I was in school, so if it's significantly worse that so many people are discussing it now, and our schools are this deeply affected by alt right politics...man, I just wonder whether the kids are okay. On one hand I remember how necessary my phone was for me in not literally killing myself in my final years of high school, without exaggeration, and on the other hand I also remember how other students used these tools in order to disconnect from their education, their peers, and their teachers.
I got a detention for searching up 'Time lapse of construction project' whilst in construction the other day. It wasn't my teacher, it was the HEADTEACHER. FMLLLLL.
My old school’s security system once got an inappropriate search alert because my sister looked up “Carmelite nuns”. What’s even stranger is that it’s a Catholic school.
They had a heap of categories, such as: - News -Videos -Advertisements - Blogging - Sport - Harmful content - Social media - Gambling - Money - Gaming - homophobia - racism - unknown pages Got dropped because teachers began complaining because there were certain things that they had to teach off memory or all hard copy because it was all blocked. Edit: forgot one - streaming and music. That meant Spotify too.
My high school at least allowed RUclips when I was there. The school computer though had too much restrictions… and then I got my first smartphone and used RUclips there! …Until one of my teachers suddenly decided that’s forbidden. (Could’ve told me BEFORE I opened the RUclips app?)
Mine did but they had that stupid setting forced on where only "kid-friendly" videos would show up. Not videos made for kids, but videos that weren't age-restricted or contained profanity or shit like that@@petermmm42
So I work in IT in a school district, a pretty big one in northern VA. And holy shit. The internal workings of these whitelists/blacklists are truly mistifying. We use a dual server/client setup where certain sites are blocked on both levels (so if you somehow manage to get a VPN working it still blocks it on the device), but for whatever reason it really likes randomly blocking well traveled sites for no reason. Certain sites like RUclips have seemingly random videos filtered out; I watch RTGame a bit and only about 1/2-1/3 of his vids show up on that wifi. The weird part is, they’re still gaming content. Whatever methodology the system uses to figure out which vids to block is basically random. It’s fascinating and infuriating
i would get so frustrated when i would need to use youtube for something and KNOWING that im getting a lot less than what im searching for, because more than half of the results were blocked. it was so annoying having our teachers manually unblock a video which they specifically assigned us to watch for a grade
dude so many songs on YT are hidden on my school account, yet they manage to completely ignore all the extremely dark vocaloid songs- even if the songs are in english.
1:28 The Last Kids On Earth, which was on Netflix was chosen for the movie that we would watch in lunch. Netflix was blocked, so we couldn't continue watching it
I honestly feel so bad for the people who have things unnecessarily blocked on their school computers, but I'm just here to say that I have a computer that my parents bought me for school, but it's ours. My parents don't know how to block websites, probably don't even know that its possible XD. So here I am, watching Matt's videos instead of doing my long overdue schoolwork. peace ✌❤
My school had the words "snake" and "slope" blocked because of the games. It also had the word "google" blocked for three days before enough teachers complained about that idiotic idea and they unblocked it. If you looked up images on bing (thats the web browser the computers forced you to use) and tried to click on ANY image to make it easier to download, it would kick you out of bing entirely. Our IT department wasnt the brightest.
For my school, if you go on any website (could be innocent) that has ads (including teacher assignments) and it cycles thru 10 ads the next thing u look up gives u a 10 min ban for looking things up. Needless to say, schoolwork is hard to do...
One time my school blocked the grading software for teachers. It was also the only place for us to see our grades. There was no way to know what your grades were for the first few months of school. Apparently it's because it started with the letter "S"
@dumbassgaming513 "I can see why they did it" wdym???? just because an inappropriate word starts with S doesn't mean they were right about banning every word that started with S.
I remember chrome music lab being blocked on my computer once (it was one of my hobbies btw) and I cried loudly in the bathroom for 10 minutes I got unblocked eventually, though, so all is well :] 👍
For one of my subjects we had to design a video game box, but we weren’t allowed to google search anything because video games was a blocked subject. In the same lesson someone managed to google how to make a pipe bomb
I would think this is weird, but I remenbered I had a school project once where we indeed had to research how to make a pipe bomb so I guess that's an educational enought subject
For my senior year in highschool we were supposed to do a capstone project basically researching a career we wanted to do for ourselves. I had done videogame designer and the internet filters made it a lot harder than it needed to be to find sources. Really sucked because I didn't have internet at home besides a shitty hotspot
Coolmath Games was blocked at my high school too. Minecraft, however, was not, and I managed to download it on no less than seven school computers across four years.
In my y7 class the school blocked Minecraft because it was 'too public' but Robloxs was fine despite also being an online game and everyone started making new Robloxs accounts for the school computers. The teachers never found out Robloxs was online 🤫
My school blocked grammarly for all students but told all teachers that they needed it. Our LA teacher got mad because we couldnt use it and the school’s reasoning was “it’ll make students want to cheat.”
As a follow up maybe, random stuff you managed to get blocked on school computers. I got the chrome plug-ins blocked because I grabbed an official dark mode theme off it, the school’s reasoning; “you could infect the computers with a virus”. This had the unfortunate side effect of disabling the schools Adblock, meaning that there were untargeted ads everywhere (including some less than safe for school ones).
in year 9 we managed to get youtube blocked and then unblocked in year 11 because the sixth formers were able to access it and for some reason also let us use it??? we werent complaining tbh
I got Wattpad banned on the school wifi in my county, not for the fanfiction on it, but because I used the private messaging system to get someone to threaten my ex-boyfriend in sixth grade.
my school blocked the ability to change your keyboard language to anything that isn't English. As someone who studies Korean in my free time, in order to write, I now have to find and copy/paste every single character. The Korean alphabet has 11,172 possible letter combinations 🙃
In my community college, the teacher had us use a unique bowser for tests that wouldn't run if the majority of tabs/pages from another browser were open. Unfortunately this included the tab used to OPEN THE BROWSER for the test meaning none of us could actually take the tests and started failing because of it. The teacher refused to help or offer any alternate routes like physical copies even with almost everyone coming forward with the issue and easily 90% of students dropped the class after the first test.
Pinterest is blocked by my school because it's categorized as Pinterest Which would make sense if the school didn't have a class literally called Pinterest
My school blocked the Naval Encyclopedia for being “games” when it is just an encyclopedia, whilst the Tank Encyclopedia and Aircraft Encyclopedia made by the same people is rightfully not blocked.
The Hub (you know the one) was not blocked on my school's computers. There was one week where a shortcut to the site was added to the list of shared items that every school computers' home screen pulled from. Took the teachers three days to notice, and four to fix it, and they still didn't ban the site. They finally managed to ban the site by the time I was leaving school, but they accidentally funnelled their whitelist into the blacklist, meaning the school's own homework portal wasn't working at school.
My high school’s website where teachers posted all our course materials was called “The Hub”, so at first I thought you were talking about that and I got confused.
For some reason my school decided to block the website for Lockheed Martin for the reason of 'military content'. However, the official NATO site wasn't blocked, and neither was the US army website. Literally enlisting wasn't seen as containing any military content. I guess our IT guy had a real bone to pick with the private arms sector.
For a couple years, the school's own intranet site was blocked by default, meaning opening up a web browser would immediately give you a blocked page, because the school's site lists its own location, which is in Sussex. At this point, I'm not even sure if it got blocked because of 'sus' or 'sex', given that this happened post-Among Us.
My school banned literally every game website except for cool math games- And soon after the game websites got blocked, it didn’t take long for people to find a ‘unblocker website’ that could bypass the bans the teacher put on the chromebooks. 💀 I honestly don’t understand why they banned every website except cool math games. That’s literally a hotspot for games- (PS: do any of your schools use hapara highlights to watch your computer activity? just wondering if that was just my district-)
2:18 Same here. We all kept on pulling out the ethernet cables from our computers to play it and it got block one day. That was the day I lost my remaining faith in the UK education system
@@MrFourchords They blocked youtube because they "didnt want kids watching videos that not everyone can see" or something like that but reddit and 4chan literally have porn so wtf
My old school blocked the word "sad" and whenever I typed it in, doesn't matter where, I'd get a visitation notice, so I just typed in "emotionally distressed". They didn't block Reddit for some reason.
Seeing the google docs one seriously reminded me of how my school blocks things. Obviously, a large amount of websites are blocked. For some reason, Fandom is blocked, and so is any video game or tv show wiki in existence. The screen that shows when a website is blocked is that exact screen. Also, on Wikipedia being a forum/blog, it kinda is the first one. There's a "talk" section on every single article. Click on it, and you read literal comments on the articles. The comments look like miniature Wikipedia pages, complete with the large title. They aren't really comments, more like annotations. You can edit someone else's one.
One time I was chatting with my friend about different writing systems, and we eventually got to Devanagari. He didn’t know what it looked like, so I looked it up to show him, and to my surprise, it was blocked. No other writing system was blocked. I still to this day have no idea why.
My old school was so bad. I coded some games and released them, and I had a website for them. A teacher heard me talking about my games, and I find the next day -- my website is blocked. My own freaking tiny website is blocked and I know exactly who's responsible. I then played a game of cyber chasey with them and made 3 more websites before they finally gave up
I wanted to show my friends my mediocre speedruns because they were playing the same game at the time, and it turns out my RUclips account is blocked by the school wtfff
@@donpollo3154 I was bored, hated the school, and by that point (it was a couple weeks before I would move to my new school) the teachers new I had checked out I think. They tried to give me detentions but I pointed out that I wouldn't actually be there for them next week. They said I had to come back from orientation after school to take the detentions. I told them no. It was so good.
One time, my school blocked Kahoot and Blooket. This isn’t as weird as some others, but the problem was that many subjects depended on using them to teach us…
One of my schools had a web filter that blocked practically everything. It was as much a problem for the teachers as it was for anyone else. I still remember one teacher repeatedly getting more and more irritated as every single lesson plan of his got thwarted by this filter until he gave up entirely and ended class early.
Not sure if I’ve ever had a teacher who hasn’t been enraged by the RUclips restrictions. They now often use their own devices on a Wi-Fi hotspot. Stuff like Amazon movies also gets blocked, leading to piracy in order to show the class educational movies.
at my school the filters only apply to student devices, so instead sometimes teachers have to play "is this website gonna be blocked for the kids" roulette
I got Cool Math for Games unblocked forever at my middle school. I proved to a district school board employee that lunar lander was a learning thing that taught critical thinking and taught kids how to do complicated math without any issues. I mostly pulled shit out of my ass but the way I said it was pure genius. I also had the person play the game and they literally took about 10 minutes of me explaining simple stuff in the game before the guy literally got the hang of it and declared they are unbanning it in all schools in my city and will keep it unbanned forever or as long as they can try to keep it unbanned and it has never been banned again. Lunar Lander makes you have to learn to control the angles of the shit and the planet and keep an eye on your fuel gage and distance gauge in order to keep playing the game and to be able to keep going as far as you can get into the game secretly teaching kids geometry and algebra while being actually fun to play. By mastering the ability of playing lunar lander you in fact master the ability to learn geometry and algebra at the same time. Its a secret training tool to actually teach children math disguised as a fun game.
I mean... that's literally why it's called "cool MATH games", after all. It's the most frustrating part of schools banning a lot of stuff, is they often actively ban stuff that's literally educational, intended to be educational, and is way more engaging for someone younger than reading a textbook is, and then they all wonder why grades consistently drop and students hate school. I can 100% say I've learned more genuine skills from playing video games than I ever did in public school. ESPECIALLY math. And I'm saying this as a 30 y/o adult. And it's not just like, one or 2 subjects. Math, physics, history, language recognition, biology, design, computer science, cryptography, medical science, handicrafts, English, etc. etc. etc. etc. P.E. is pretty much the only thing that pre-college/university school really provides better than self-education honestly does. But even that is often pathetic compared to actually having access to an actual gym, as just running a bunch really doesn't do much for anything other than basic stamina lol. Like, yeah, proper higher education is still needed, but... I'll be honest, playing games with high intellectual requirements, such as games that have lua coding as a gameplay requirement, or stuff like KSP or hyper modded minecraft, as well as stuff like crusader kings, that has actual historical value, among MANY other games, will probably teach your average person WAY more about general life skills and get them using their brain more, than "memorize this and repeat it on a test next week" ever will. I mean... I literally have the equivalent math skills of a master's degree, despite having never taken a single advanced math class, purely because of video game damage formulas and whatnot. And I can say this with confidence, as my aunt is a math professor who just recently got her phd and I've generally been able to keep up with her.
@@AtomicArtumasomg geoguessr, globle, and like every other world geography-related game is banned including the obscure geography wordle-isms at my school
I played that checker game on cool math games all the time. It had a *brutal* AI when you played against the computer. I am now pretty good at checkers.
@@flop-00 They banned geoguessr's stuff involving quizzes such as "Southern States and Capitals" which we were using *in class* because it was labelled as "educational games".
the school will instantly kick me out of whatever website I'm on, if I write "unbloc" in the search bar but I can just search "unblocked games", and it autocorrects to "unblocked games" lol
My school blocked wattpad but they didn't block AO3, so I started reading fanfiction on A03 instead and I gotta say It was the one of the best decisions in my life. Thanks high school, guess you were good for something after all Lmao!
They did the same for me and now I just can’t read on wattpad at all because the quality of the stuff on there is so bad. Ao3 permentantly raised my fanfic standards and I will forever be grateful for that
My old school didn't block anything ridiculous, but their blocking of one video game led to a covert blocking/unblocking war in which someone coded an unblocking software, the school banned the website, and so on and so forth.
My school blocked TV tropes the reason was “streaming content” and that was the only place I could go when I was done with my school work because every single time I tried to go to another site after being done with school work it would be blocked a few days later.
My school-issued computer just blocks things I need to use as sources for research papers. Sometimes it just blocks things for no reason. I started bringing my own laptop in shortly after, and while there was still a proxy server on the other end that would block things, it was more lax on things and actually would block things for understandable reasons.
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Man I remember looking up successful and the page was blocked. Realized it was because of “succ”
This is making me realize my school is not that strict.
succ💀
LMAO???
... but why the incorrect spelling of it?
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The only outlandish thing that my schools IT security has done was repeatedly banning the videos that my French teacher was planning to use.
Doing his duty to protect the children from the Fr*nch.
i think someone in your school's IT security has something against your French teacher-
Not the French! Too dangerous for school
That’s reasonable and something that should be implemented worldwide, we have to stop the French
@@thedarter LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
In the early 2000s, my school attempted to implement a very rudimentary learning algorithm in their website blocking program. Obviously the word "porn" was blocked, but if you typed "hardcore porn" it would then add "hardcore" to its list of banned words. The problem was this spiralled out of control very quickly, as "hardcore science" would then block the word "science", then "high school science" would then block the words "high" and "school". Needless to say, this algorithm had to be removed after just a few hours.
Ida: OOPS! Ai went badly
That is the stupidest possible algorithm I’ve ever heard of, I legitimately want to know why the developers of it even slightly thought that would work, even if they had .003% of a brain cell, a troglodyte would know that wouldn’t work
That’s hilarious
I love ingenious hackers
"hardcore porn"
"minecraft hardcore mode"
"mean median and mode"
"kids at school are being mean to me"
"how to tell if you're failing in school"
Now you can barely search anything.
Fun fact: when the google dinosaur game came out the message if it was blocked said “fun has been blocked by administrator” before they were forced into changing it
SAME
Lol! I remember my school blocked the dinosaur game 😂
SAVAGE 😭😭😭😭🙏🏽
They should've kept it
@@supersmashseandx1991 real
Our school tablets literally can’t save any work you’ve done. My friend wanted to have a presentation about something and the day before the tablet just deleted all her work
i dont even have anything to say, thats literally saving so much money it makes the students life worse
@@Yushuai-lh4fd I KNOW, but kids took pictures so ig it was the best to do lol
In 3rd grade I got ahold of the settings app on my school iPad. Managed to apply so many settings it became impossible for me to log back in and I had to use a different one for the rest of the year 💀
The music video for y’all want a single by Korn is blocked on the school computers
Not even my tablet did that, we used to store games
My elementary school blocked the Google Snake game off all computers because there was a group of boys who would play it in class instead of doing work. However, because the snake game is built into Google itself, the school had to use an old version of Google instead.
This version sucked. It barely worked most of the time and when it did work, it was slow and wouldn't load correctly.
They couldn't change browsers because the whole online part of that school ran out of Google. Google Docs, Gmail, Google Classroom, etc. So everyone had to suffer this old, awful Google.
The best part?
The boys still found a way to play Google Snake so the entire change was for nothing.
Okay, that was worth the read.
honestly google is so based for literally having built in games on the browser
Yeah my school doesn’t like people being able to play Google Solitaire or Snake or Pac-Man, but they can’t stop it for that reason.
This story is better then 90% of other stories 💀😭
We usually have dance with a cover teacher (substitute teacher for yall who call it that) on the computers, so people just play those games instead of working and get confused if the teacher tells them to work. If it's a good cover teacher they won't even care.
Popular games include snake and flappy crus, that shitty game where you just murder flappy birds with the space bar as more and more blood splatters on the teeth of the pipe crushing them.
They hadn’t figured out blocking when I was in school. But at a job that was super strict (a call center), they’d auto-block any website that was accessed too often. This included google, the local transit system, and every single website we relied on to do our jobs. Like the site of the company we answered calls for.
Lmao did your workplace ever remove the blockades or did they just go out of business? 😂😂😂
When he said "Human head bone emojiiiii!" I felt that.
indeed
My school got a new filter which automatically blocks websites from other countries, this is a problem when you’re trying to do research on France and the website is blocked because it’s “categorized as France”
We need to protect our children from being exposed to France
Wow.... they're another level of people that say "fr*nce, fr*nch"......
Never trust the French
that's the only one that's justified
Do you go to a school in china? lol
My school blocked Skyward and Canvas for a period of time. For those who don’t know, Skyward is where we check our grades and Canvas is where I am required to turn in 99.73% of my assignments.
Our school accidentally blocked Skyward and Apex Learning for 3 HOURS before fixing it, and announcing that they messed up.
Fun day that was.
If you don't know, Apex Learning is the site that they have us do credit recovery work on.
I got canvas too
I got canvas too
I got canvas too
I hate canvas
The kfc one actually brought me back to grade 2. It’s not banned in my school but I remember one of my friends ordering kfc to the school. WITH THE TEACHERS CREDIT CARD
Give us a full story😂
@@CraftyElizagreed 😂😂
My favorite block categories I've seen personally are: Friendship, education, collaborative work, and perhaps my personal favorite "[Students full name] please stop trying to get around the filter, we can see everything you do and at this point just check every site you visit. It's getting boring just stop." Which was applied to every site for five minutes one day.
"You may be able to see what I do right now, but after I use LTMEAT, I will be gone like your father"
That's funny tho
Okay, for people who didn’t go through an edgy “play the games on the PETA website” phase, let me tell you, the PETA website is absolutely blocked for a reason! My home computer had an army of parental blocks, and when my mom saw me playing the “children’s” games on that site, she was *horrified* because those cute cartoon games are nothing but gore! Calling the PETA website “mature” is more than fair lmao
Yeah this was the only justified one
@@kaydwessie296Actually, in the context of school, blocking websites that exist mainly for entertainment (i.e: Coolmath Games) is actually quite logical. Gotta make sure the students pay attention to the class!
I remember those!!! Saw RUclipsrs play it instead of actually playing it myself but I always thought they were really edgy fan games. Did not make me vegan though, so I win aha
Sounds like they'd be similar to Happy Tree Friends. 😂
@@dadfixthis2998My school's computer class existed solely to get kids comfortable with using computers. Many of us came from impoverished households without home computers (this was before smartphones, too). Once the teacher made sure we all knew how to power it on, move the mouse and double click, that was all and we were left to our own devices, no class to pay attention to. Games on computers play a huge role in getting kids comfortable and familiar with using them. My teachers installed several games on the computer for that purpose. They didn't mind us being on flash game websites either. But whenever a specific website became popular, the teachers freaked out about 'mass minded thinking' and banned it. The same way they banned physicsl trends like playing spinning tops, too.
I was cyber schooled up until high school and my parents put a ton of child protective locks on the school laptops we were given. The web browser lock had such amazing blocks as keeping me from viewing lace fabric because the word "lace" is "sexually explicit" and blocking my sibling from visiting the site "guitars exchange" because it has the word "sex" in it. My mom recently said, sincerely and with deep regret, that she hadn't blocked enough on our computers as kids and that's why we turned out the way we did. Much to both of our dismay, I laughed in her face before I realized she was being serious.
edit: I forgot my high school also banned all social media on their wifi. By the end of the day almost everyone had a VPN on their phone and was using social media as normal. Some people also used VPNs to watch porn in class. Weird times.
Your mum is an idiot.
Can't be looking at all that guitar sex change stuff
@@gingersolacemusic7590 underrated
“If only I’d been more abusive!” is so wild to me as a regret
The vpns carried highschool
This isn’t exactly a website, but my school blocked the entire local storage system in our computers, so we couldn’t save anything locally. They want us to store everything on our drive in the network, but then when a server issue comes along, all of our hard work during the lesson cannot be saved and is lost for time
They can do that? Must be a Linux/Mac feature.
How is that possible?
I read so much Homestuck at school they had to add it to the block list manually
My school blocked almost everything, even their own website. However, they did not block Pizza Hut. A bunch of kids ordered pizzas to the school
At a school I went to they had to send out an announcement that ordering pizza for class parties during finals week was not allowed. Really sad, too, because it was banned right before my class where I was going to have a party involving snacks (many classes had already taken their finals before their official final test time slot, so many people were left with hours of doing nothing)
i would probably do the exact same thing
Me: Uh, hi, um… can I get.. 100000000000 boxes of pizza? Any type of pizza. Delivery location? [Blocked off for school privacy reasons]. Ok, thanks!
@@SkeletonLand368 basically that
I never tried doing that so I dunno what the school's policy was on that.
School blocked everything related to gambling, including "lottery," "poker," "luck," "chance," and "gamble." I was in AP Statistics. I was miserable
No gambling. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!
I remember some stupid glitch happened on my Chromebook and things look Google Docs, Gmail, and Google Classroom were categorized as “Drug Abuse”
Funny that Gamble was blocked cuz I and Gambling both have “Gambl” in it
OH NO! sorry for you
Imagine trying to search “Chance” for a math question or something 💀
My school is very authoritarian with their computers, if you go on a site they don’t like, instead of blocking that site they block LITERALLY everything from the computer (including their own website, the google homepage, google classroom and all that) it’s so dumb, like
“Oh you’re playing games because you finished your work? WELL NOW YOU CANT DO YOUR WORK! HOW DO YA LIKE THAT!”
My school has a similar system. It blocks EVERYTHING on your computer with a screen saying your computer was locked. It’s incredibly easy to evade by just turning your computer off and back on again so it’s actually pointless
Most of these are examples of the “Scunthorpe problem” where access was limited for certain words because they have swear words within them, even if the words themselves are appropriate. The name originated from Scunthorpe, a British town whose inhabitants couldn’t sign up to AOL because their town name had the word “cunt” in it.
This wasn't necessarily something that was blocked, but every student was flagged for searching up "suspicious things" because we were reading an article about ww2
Do they just...not teach history at that school?
@@TheLobsterCopter5000 they did. We were reading this article for class
One time the dean of students asked me why I was looking up guns on my school iPad. I had no idea what he was talking about, and he said “Yeah, some website called American Eagle.” 😂
@@icecreamjunkie6790 next he'll projectile vomit on you for looking up French history.
Don't you know? Among Us takes place in WW2.
I had the inverse of this, where one of the teachers attempted to demonstrate a blocked site by visiting Playboy's website, and found out in front of the class that it _wasn't_ blocked.
this reminds me of the time i was looking up how to build jet-packs/fan-packs and in the recommended advertisement's was websites for the purchase of sex toys
it was kinda funny as i myself wasn't googling it and instead it was a helpful teacher that was interested in what i wanted to look up
i don't know any other facts about it
but i guess someone looked up that topic before and then forgot to clear the cache and then the computer went oh you were looking up nsfw stuff earlier are you still interested?
this was back in 2007 i think?
and both myself and the teacher both knew i was not looking up that kinda stuff before hand
so we kinda laughed it off and i stuck it in the back of my mind
i was the one to point the ads out and we both knew someone else had done this as she woke the computer up
but i was like 12 and i knew it was nsfw and went if i wanted to look this up i'd use my own personal laptop and not use a unsafe school computer that would certainly be able to pinpoint the exact moment someone typed that in
or at least someone searching it
How many kids went to promptly look it up on their own devices
that happened to me too!! from what i know she had to change jobs after that
nakey nakey!
A guy in my class literally opened (until a couple images began popping in) a "very bad website with kids wearing ill fitting clothing" (I guess to be edgy or something) in a full room. Not blocked, was on the regular internet. Was a lucky bastard for the teacher and everyone else to not see it. Years later, I just wonder how and WHY the hell he found out about that site.
Back when I was in school I used a remote desktop software to access and control my home computer to get around blocks. Kept the viewer on a usb drive and could use it from any school computer. No one was ever the wiser. Helps that I didn't abuse it too, so no teachers looking at my screen would notice anything was amiss.
my secondary school blocked cool maths games for the oddest reason, apparently someone in our class found a glitch on that website to bypass the school blocking system, so he did that glitch to go to a certain hub, and when the school found out, they just blocked cool math games, but didn’t do anything to the kid that did that
My dad actually had some parental control restrictions on my phone. For backstory, I was looking up conditioners that didn’t contain an ingredient my hair dislikes, which is silicone. I looked up “silicone free conditioners” and it was blocked. The reason?: some breast implants are made of silicone. I didn’t even know this. My dad was afraid of me looking at boobs. I’m a girl
At least he’s progressive I guess, but literally how the hell are you supposed to avoid silicone that crap is used in the manufacturing of everything I swear. And what if your kid takes an interest in computers? Silicone is one of the most important materials in computers, you just can’t block silicone
@@wieldylattice3015You're confusing silicone with silicon.
@@me-myself-i787 Silicone is quite literally made out of silicon, it's not a hard mistake to make bro
that's silli
If, according to your comment saying that some implants are made from silicone, and that you are a girl, it's possible that it wasn't that they wanted to avoid you looking at breasts, but rather they wanted to avoid you getting an implant in yours
My school blocked the word “fail” because kids were looking up fail compilations, which seems fine and dandy until you realize that around 50% of the questions you’d look up in history class use it.
Wdym
am I the only one who doesn’t get the realize…whatever we’re supposed to realize here?
@@selinxrosesyou're not the only one who doesn't get it
@@selinxroses
*fail* complications (not school related)
why did the match girls protest *fail* (history related)
@@useless8695 ohhh that makes a lot more sense lol
I had cookie clicker up on another tab so seeing it appear in the video made me do a double take 💀
One time I was researching incendiary weapons during elective which was just a homework help class for kids with IEPs, and I was immediately hit with the "Webpage Blocked" screen. I narrowed it down to the word napalm.
I know that TUSD just didn't want their students committing warcrimes, but if your going to block the term napalm, at least block their searches when their friend searches up "xxx" on their computer.
you know about the famous Super Bowl Xxx incident...right? well, all searches about that Superb owl were blocked WORLDWIDE! hmmm....he maybe wanted to watch rugby.
i don't think "kids committing war crimes" is something to be concerned over but i do think violence/mass genocide/etc is more inappropriate than boobies, yet schools make sure kids definitely know all about war but don't want them to know where their clitoris is.
the dinosaur game being blocked is more common than you think it is. the nyc department of education is so strict it won't let any public school in nyc play the dinosaur game (let alone any school, including private ones), it won't let you view a google doc outside of your school's email, and it won't let you change your profile picture
forgot to mention! they blocked youtube too but not any other sns website
So that's probably why we were blocked from changing our pfps after like 6-7th grade. I always thought someone just royally screwed up
forgot to mention! again! my old middle school blocked gmail for a while because we kept checking it in class
streber pfper also your schools sound like shit 😭
Mine does the same exact thing!
A friend of mine tried to watch an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog junior year but the computer blocked it because it was classified as "porn".
"Courage the Cowardly Porn Star" became an inside joke for us that year.
"STUPID DOG, YOU MADE ME CUM!"
Why was a cartoon about a dog getting scared by monsters categorized as porn? What the actual hell?
@@user-nl3xw4gg7m That one episode about domestic abuse between the cat and her abusive dog boyfriend, maybe?
It was a weird show. Could've contained literal porn at some point for all I know.
meanwhile at my old school people were literally pirating movies and tv shows during break and i don’t think any of them got in trouble for it either
At my school, Scratch was blocked because you could supposedly use the code to bypass the chromebook light speed internet filter so you can go to blocked websites.
My 9th grade English teacher had us use a website called Citation Machine to help us learn how to formate citations for our papers. I tried to use it once on the school computer but it was blocked, so I called him over to show him. He then proceeded to yell, out loud, the reason the site was labeled as blocked: "PORNOGRAPHIC CONTENT??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?"
my school for some reason blocked like some APA formatting stuffs because it was labelled as Hacking.
HUH? THAT MAKES NO SeNSE
my 8th grade social studies teacher somehow managed to block the entire google site. not just docs or meets or anything, but the google home page itself. if you logged into your chromebook and clicked on google it’d say “this site has been blocked by an administrator.” she couldn’t figure out how to fix it so we got like 2 free periods since my school does pretty much everything online.
also, the reason she blocked google was because she was trying to get this one boy to stop looking at pictures of pickles during class. like, the vegetable. no clue why he was looking at pickles during social studies, and no clue how she managed to block the entirety of google but it was hilarious
How did she have the authority to do that?
Based and picklepilled.
Must've been hungry. XD
The teacher won but at what cost?
in my school, bing is blocked under the school firewall
if I recall the reason it was that the network can't auto set safe search options at the time (not sure if it can now, an example of this thing is youtube being auto set to restricted mode on school networks and such)
anyways, because microsoft edge is the default browser, and changing the search engine is tiny bit hidden (go to search settings, then go into a sub menu), just made most people use the google chrome pre installed instead
(also another fun thing, they try to block extensions on the browsers, (using admin policys) but it ended up lifting it self becuase the policy it was uses got deprecated and then removed from chrome, meaning extensions don't get blocked)
I remember one time a kid got caught in class scrolling instagram on the school computers, so the teachers had enough and blocked EVERYTHING. Accidentally they also blocked important things like certain math websites, OPENING A NEW TAB, and other stuff like that. They fixed it so the next day we could do those things, but having a background is blocked, news websites we need for assignments is blocked, yt I need for tutorials and help is blocked, etc. I spent the whole day playing snake on the computer, because for some reason the google games weren’t blocked.
My school has blocked everything fun. All well known game websites, youtube, social media platforms, minecraft, steam, other games you can download, anime sites, manga sites, game wikis, etc. Most students are either playing the crappy games on scratch, or are looking for those totally not suspicious game sites that have random numbers and letters mixed together. Fun times.
My school blocked the Children's Internet Protection Act, and then cited the Children's Internet Protection Act as the reason why.
They also blocked government sites because they classified as "Business", and also the search query "cipa" to prevent us looking up CIPA.
COPPA and CIPA are such bullshit, dude.
Your school sounds shady
very sus my guy
Right, I’m gonna have to recommend you read some George Orwell, immediately. Start with Animal Farm (I swear they aren’t boring reads) because George Orwell often breaks down how a totalitarian government forms in his books, and what your school is doing reminds me of thag
@@graydonweber9825 Bruh I'm just recommending someone else an author's work jokingly because their school is on a power trip no need to be so pretentious
My school has a history of weird blockings. At first almost everything was unblocked, im pretty sure some kid looked up h3nta1 once and never got found out. Then they started blocking all of the game sites (cookie clicker, cool math, etc). Then they started blocking youtube videos categorized in gaming. Then it became a toss up with a weighted dice if the website you wanted to use research on was blocked. Then they blocked the category music altogether (which is really, REALLY stupid because our school has an extremely big music program).
Then, a few days ago, it was discovered that our school blocked youtube altogether. It doesnt come up with the same "blocked by administration" message as the rest though, the website just will keep loading forever. A good chunk of the teachers here use youtube for things from an assignment, to uploading the tests on there and putting the videos in google forms for us to answer.
Point is, our school has actively done everything it can to stop us from learning. The system is so flawed that sometimes it randomly blocks the site we use to check our grades. Im surprised it hasnt blocked wikipedia yet
PowerSchool?
@@ChickadeeRosewhat’s that?
Literally 1984 😊
Yeah everything like that is blocked for us. Its sad.
Your school IT department thinks they're running a Silo or what 💀💀
I remember my senior year of high school we had to do an argumentative essay and one kid kept trying to find sources on his topic but couldn’t find any so he decided to commit to the bit and do his whole paper on censorship (I was also committing to a bit because I chose to do my paper on collective punishment after something happened in class that I do NOT remember. Shoutout to the kid who told me I should write my paper on that because I’m now in college writing YET ANOTHER PAPER on collective punishment)
when we got our new laptops from the school there was like a week where anything that used google was block because it was a 'web browser'
My high school didn’t block anything, it just sent reports to the school library about which device numbers were searching “inappropriate topics.”
While I was working there as an assistant, some of the amazing results I saw flagged were:
“Amethyst Crystal”
“Tits for Tats”
“Gerald Ford”
“Cleverbot Sex”
“Lapras”
"Ameythst crystals" I gotta get me some meyth
wow those are some amazing results
Why lapras tho ?
Gerald ford???
Cleverbot sex
?????????????
Not something my school blocked, but something very petty and dumb about my school. They didn't allow highschool students to have any facial hair due to the reasoning "it makes it easier to tell the difference between the students and teachers." Boys also weren't allowed to have hair past their shoulders because it "was distracting." A student and his mother drove to the school parking lot and shaved his head on the school grounds in a bout of malicious compliance, and the video even made it on the news.
Tomball Memorial High School, class of '17.
Wow, that's nutty.
@@psy-fi64 Nutty butty.
duuuuuude i live near tomball memorial. i go to a private school in the same area. same stupid ass rules there too lmao
@@garrettwilson7795love ur profile pic
it should be illegal for schools to have rules that forces people to change their physical appearance
My school once blocked the word "snake"
This same system caused me to get an entire class's computers to be blocked entirely and completely unusuable all because i needed a PBS article unblocked.
at a state level, the internet archive/wayback machine (an educational resource) is blocked for "resources"
I remember my high school blocked Minecraft, but some of the kids that were in my class found that the education version was allowed. Played that whenever I could for my last year or two of school
Reminds me of the time when I moved in with my father at 12, got my very first iPad (no phone till 17 and a half years old) and he blocked every single website in existence except for google search results page (and ONLY google search results page), and pbs kids. This was all the way until I turned 17. Couldn’t do certain homework or project assignments that required to be finished at home, and teachers didnt listen when I told them my father refused to remove locks on my iPad, so I’d promptly receive Fs on grades, which would make my father angry. I wasn’t allowed to stay at school after hours or I’d be in trouble, this included staying for detention, which my teachers had to ask for permission to keep me after school for. So that wasn’t an option to get projects done, I’d have to do it in between classes or skip certain classes to go to the computer lab/libray and do it.
Needless to say my childhood was miserable.
your father sounds like a massive PoS
Ima send hugs 🫂
The fucking audacity of your father and the school smh
I would have just went fuk it an just camped out somewhere see is thinking I ran away would change there mind if not a least it was a nice break from the emotion trauma
did you ever bring the iPad into school and show them? could’ve maybe counted as ab*se that he was withholding your education, especially if he then got mad at your grades.
we once had the opposite problem: a teacher wanted to show us that some websites are blocked and ended up accidentally showing porn to a classroom of ten year olds
You teacher was on... something
Teacher: oh shi-
@@Foxy_the_pirate749 if only. she went "that's not suppoused to happen" and very slowly closed the web page
HAHAH WHATTTTT
HOW IM SO CONFUSED
It was more than 5 years since I was at middle school, but on my middle school's laptops, RUclips was blocked on all of the student logins. The reason, I don't even know. Weirdly enough, the iPads don't have any restrictions and you can install RUclips from the App Store, so I did exactly that and blasted memes in the classroom!
My school got a new blocking system a few months ago, for some reason they block even the most harmless of searches. One of the most ridiculous things they blocked were cool math games and searching up Tim Burton. They still haven’t fixed it.
The page for “obtuse angle” was blocked, even the teachers themselves don’t know why
...what. the. hell.
Based acute angle supremacists
That was obtuse
This comment is underrated
Maybe because obtuse can mean stupid so they thought it used degrading language? Idk
As a teacher, the dedication schools show to blocking anything, that has even the most remote chance of bringing joy to students, never stops to amaze me.
Crazy you are here.
I am normally an anti-teacher man (and by that I just mean that I genuinely believe teachers and doctors are exactly the same in that they have vulnerable people in their charge whom they frequently abuse while receiving praise for doing so, and so I am equally as fed up with and weary about teachers as I am with doctors), however, I will say that I've heard a significant amount of people discussing how parenting trends and modern technology is affecting youth's attention span and ability to respect authority.
Which...Idk man I remember it being bad when I was in school, so if it's significantly worse that so many people are discussing it now, and our schools are this deeply affected by alt right politics...man, I just wonder whether the kids are okay. On one hand I remember how necessary my phone was for me in not literally killing myself in my final years of high school, without exaggeration, and on the other hand I also remember how other students used these tools in order to disconnect from their education, their peers, and their teachers.
@@joobletmaster5000nobody reading allat
@urhooked ?? Bruh it’s two paragraphs
@@urhookedi just did before seeing your comment so that's automatically wrong
I got a detention for searching up 'Time lapse of construction project' whilst in construction the other day. It wasn't my teacher, it was the HEADTEACHER. FMLLLLL.
"we live jn a soci" took me out 😂
My old school’s security system once got an inappropriate search alert because my sister looked up “Carmelite nuns”. What’s even stranger is that it’s a Catholic school.
"I think I have a vocation" - "The hell you do"
I wonder if it thought "nun" was a fetish term maybe. That would be pretty funny for a catholic school
They had a heap of categories, such as:
- News
-Videos
-Advertisements
- Blogging
- Sport
- Harmful content
- Social media
- Gambling
- Money
- Gaming
- homophobia
- racism
- unknown pages
Got dropped because teachers began complaining because there were certain things that they had to teach off memory or all hard copy because it was all blocked.
Edit: forgot one - streaming and music. That meant Spotify too.
Unknown pages? So it's more than a blacklist, it's a whitelist?
@@intergraphenic both
They blocked news????
no news is good news@@zaneboatwright7181
What the frick kind of websites can be labeled as racism and homophobia??
My school banned square space because people kept buying websites for fun just to mess with the admins
The phrase “unblocked games” was banned on our computers, but of course they weren’t smart enough to ban “unblock games”
Even though the teachers allow us to play music in class, Spotify is banned. The schools reason? “It’s social media.”
they allow youtube?
My high school at least allowed RUclips when I was there. The school computer though had too much restrictions… and then I got my first smartphone and used RUclips there! …Until one of my teachers suddenly decided that’s forbidden. (Could’ve told me BEFORE I opened the RUclips app?)
My school asks people to use Spotify instead of RUclips but Spotify is blocked 💀
@@princesspixel3151✔️✔️
Mine did but they had that stupid setting forced on where only "kid-friendly" videos would show up. Not videos made for kids, but videos that weren't age-restricted or contained profanity or shit like that@@petermmm42
So I work in IT in a school district, a pretty big one in northern VA. And holy shit. The internal workings of these whitelists/blacklists are truly mistifying. We use a dual server/client setup where certain sites are blocked on both levels (so if you somehow manage to get a VPN working it still blocks it on the device), but for whatever reason it really likes randomly blocking well traveled sites for no reason. Certain sites like RUclips have seemingly random videos filtered out; I watch RTGame a bit and only about 1/2-1/3 of his vids show up on that wifi. The weird part is, they’re still gaming content. Whatever methodology the system uses to figure out which vids to block is basically random. It’s fascinating and infuriating
Also, most exes are banned from even downloading, much less running, so figuring out individualized installs and debug tools is a pain
i would get so frustrated when i would need to use youtube for something and KNOWING that im getting a lot less than what im searching for, because more than half of the results were blocked. it was so annoying having our teachers manually unblock a video which they specifically assigned us to watch for a grade
@@cadensherman1983 With Chromebooks, all .exe files are banned
homestuck
dude so many songs on YT are hidden on my school account, yet they manage to completely ignore all the extremely dark vocaloid songs- even if the songs are in english.
1:28 The Last Kids On Earth, which was on Netflix was chosen for the movie that we would watch in lunch. Netflix was blocked, so we couldn't continue watching it
I honestly feel so bad for the people who have things unnecessarily blocked on their school computers, but I'm just here to say that I have a computer that my parents bought me for school, but it's ours. My parents don't know how to block websites, probably don't even know that its possible XD. So here I am, watching Matt's videos instead of doing my long overdue schoolwork. peace ✌❤
My school had the words "snake" and "slope" blocked because of the games.
It also had the word "google" blocked for three days before enough teachers complained about that idiotic idea and they unblocked it.
If you looked up images on bing (thats the web browser the computers forced you to use) and tried to click on ANY image to make it easier to download, it would kick you out of bing entirely.
Our IT department wasnt the brightest.
any word that includes "pp" is blocked for me.
OMG my school still does that, every time I click an image on Bing it just redirects me to Google, which imo has a way worse image searching system
For my school, if you go on any website (could be innocent) that has ads (including teacher assignments) and it cycles thru 10 ads the next thing u look up gives u a 10 min ban for looking things up. Needless to say, schoolwork is hard to do...
@@Lazy_.Lavenderyou get banned for LOOKING THINGS UP??
@@bokrugthewaterserpent3012 oops i meant microsoft edge, using the bing search engine, my bad!
One time my school blocked the grading software for teachers. It was also the only place for us to see our grades. There was no way to know what your grades were for the first few months of school. Apparently it's because it started with the letter "S"
S is also a letter in sex which is super scary I can see why they did it
@@dumbassgaming5513I think you mean “I alo a letter in ex which i uper Cary I can ee why they did it”
@dumbassgaming513 "I can see why they did it" wdym???? just because an inappropriate word starts with S doesn't mean they were right about banning every word that started with S.
@@walmart_enjoyerwalmart_e-mo4cjI'm pretty sure they were joking
@@walmart_enjoyerwalmart_e-mo4cjI think they were being sarcastic.
I remember chrome music lab being blocked on my computer once (it was one of my hobbies btw) and I cried loudly in the bathroom for 10 minutes
I got unblocked eventually, though, so all is well :] 👍
1:09
i mean they ain’t wrong, those comics are pretty mature-
For one of my subjects we had to design a video game box, but we weren’t allowed to google search anything because video games was a blocked subject. In the same lesson someone managed to google how to make a pipe bomb
When the school bans something but a kid manages to get it on a watchlist:
I would think this is weird, but I remenbered I had a school project once where we indeed had to research how to make a pipe bomb so I guess that's an educational enought subject
For my senior year in highschool we were supposed to do a capstone project basically researching a career we wanted to do for ourselves. I had done videogame designer and the internet filters made it a lot harder than it needed to be to find sources. Really sucked because I didn't have internet at home besides a shitty hotspot
STOP IT with those weird hatsune mikus that somehow are taking over youtube shorts! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
WHY PIPE BOMBS BRO 💀💀💀💀💀
Coolmath Games was blocked at my high school too. Minecraft, however, was not, and I managed to download it on no less than seven school computers across four years.
Ayy I remember playing Minecraft at school too. Still not sure how it wasn’t blocked. It probably is now, back then it wasn’t as well-known
You'd be able to tell who's playing it because of the jet engine noises coming from the PC that hasn't been updated since 2004💀
I've installed osu! on just about every computer I come across, be it several dozen school computers or display models in stores
In my y7 class the school blocked Minecraft because it was 'too public' but Robloxs was fine despite also being an online game and everyone started making new Robloxs accounts for the school computers.
The teachers never found out Robloxs was online 🤫
Same! But it happened only for a week at my elementary. A year ago.
Me doing an essay on birds
Bird: Northern Cardinal
The computer: *blocked*
My school blocked grammarly for all students but told all teachers that they needed it. Our LA teacher got mad because we couldnt use it and the school’s reasoning was “it’ll make students want to cheat.”
As a follow up maybe, random stuff you managed to get blocked on school computers.
I got the chrome plug-ins blocked because I grabbed an official dark mode theme off it, the school’s reasoning; “you could infect the computers with a virus”. This had the unfortunate side effect of disabling the schools Adblock, meaning that there were untargeted ads everywhere (including some less than safe for school ones).
I'm wondering now if it could be possible for doing that to cause the computer to go into a paradox, due to how it works
in year 9 we managed to get youtube blocked and then unblocked in year 11 because the sixth formers were able to access it and for some reason also let us use it??? we werent complaining tbh
I swear every school on Earth is staffed by brainlets.
ads can actually present a security risk iirc, so that likely worsened security instead of tightening it
I got Wattpad banned on the school wifi in my county, not for the fanfiction on it, but because I used the private messaging system to get someone to threaten my ex-boyfriend in sixth grade.
my school blocked the ability to change your keyboard language to anything that isn't English.
As someone who studies Korean in my free time, in order to write, I now have to find and copy/paste every single character.
The Korean alphabet has 11,172 possible letter combinations 🙃
I propose the solution to swap the timeslots you use for Korean at school with the timeslots you don't use for Korean at home.
I believe you can get a digital keyboard on your screen, just click on the letters with your mouse :)
Can't you use Google translate??
@DeeAfton technically yes, but it's really finicky to use. I usually use the insert symbols tab on google docs and search for them there lol
@@DeeAfton Found the monolingual
Blocking PETA is pretty understandable. I mean, check out their marketing.
In my community college, the teacher had us use a unique bowser for tests that wouldn't run if the majority of tabs/pages from another browser were open. Unfortunately this included the tab used to OPEN THE BROWSER for the test meaning none of us could actually take the tests and started failing because of it. The teacher refused to help or offer any alternate routes like physical copies even with almost everyone coming forward with the issue and easily 90% of students dropped the class after the first test.
My school blocked their own website for a month😂
LMAO
how? it's their own damn website they should know the URL for it
I feel matt might see this comment soooooo i would like to be 😡 because you didnt say “awesome sauce”
No way 😂
wtf 💀💀
Pinterest is blocked by my school because it's categorized as Pinterest
Which would make sense if the school didn't have a class literally called Pinterest
…Why does your school have a class called Pinterest.
@@NoriMori1992 it's crafts like what you would find on Pinterest, like felting and sewing
@@NoriMori1992 very easy but I'm not complaining
Why does your school have a class called Pinterest????
@@sammieegoldwand idk but it easy so I'm happy
My school blocked the Naval Encyclopedia for being “games” when it is just an encyclopedia, whilst the Tank Encyclopedia and Aircraft Encyclopedia made by the same people is rightfully not blocked.
Once i was in class and i searched up google classroom , it blocked it and labelled it as "sexual content"
...WHY?? 😭😭
The Hub (you know the one) was not blocked on my school's computers. There was one week where a shortcut to the site was added to the list of shared items that every school computers' home screen pulled from. Took the teachers three days to notice, and four to fix it, and they still didn't ban the site.
They finally managed to ban the site by the time I was leaving school, but they accidentally funnelled their whitelist into the blacklist, meaning the school's own homework portal wasn't working at school.
how the hell does that even happen?
My high school’s website where teachers posted all our course materials was called “The Hub”, so at first I thought you were talking about that and I got confused.
“I finally banned The Hub.”
“But what did it cost you?”
“Everything”
@thepip3599 that is kinda sus ngl 💀
How did it get added to all computers lol? Maybe someone hacked into it admin
For some reason my school decided to block the website for Lockheed Martin for the reason of 'military content'. However, the official NATO site wasn't blocked, and neither was the US army website. Literally enlisting wasn't seen as containing any military content. I guess our IT guy had a real bone to pick with the private arms sector.
But Lockheed Martin has such badass pics :(
Northrop shill
Maybe the IT guy works for a competitor.
@@AngryGrape1337 must work for raytheon
literally everything blocked on my schools wifi has the reason “non-compliant”
For some reason, "Gramoly" has played over and over in my head continuously for 3 solid weeks.
For a couple years, the school's own intranet site was blocked by default, meaning opening up a web browser would immediately give you a blocked page, because the school's site lists its own location, which is in Sussex. At this point, I'm not even sure if it got blocked because of 'sus' or 'sex', given that this happened post-Among Us.
What about both?
ok this one is the best
maybe it was because of "sex" because thats not among us related, but thats hilarious XD
3000 IQ
among us didn't popularize "sex", so i guess thats why. but youre S A V A G E for telling their city!!!
We need more videos talking about the dictatorial authoritarianism of schools.
Can this be categorized as a thought crime?
Literally 1984
God is good
@@dizo-jp2tdGod is God
@@dizo-jp2tdsatan is better
My school banned literally every game website except for cool math games-
And soon after the game websites got blocked, it didn’t take long for people to find a ‘unblocker website’ that could bypass the bans the teacher put on the chromebooks. 💀
I honestly don’t understand why they banned every website except cool math games. That’s literally a hotspot for games-
(PS: do any of your schools use hapara highlights to watch your computer activity? just wondering if that was just my district-)
Mine uses goguardian, and they can completely block you from doing anything
2:18 Same here. We all kept on pulling out the ethernet cables from our computers to play it and it got block one day. That was the day I lost my remaining faith in the UK education system
My school blocks youtube but not reddit, twitch, and even 4chan
Not blocking 4Chan is absurd 😭
why
This kid would literally use it almost every day and none of the teachers knew how vile it is
@@julian_breuker okay lol I was actually saying why in a joke way like WHY WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT but the explanation is actually interesting
@@MrFourchords They blocked youtube because they "didnt want kids watching videos that not everyone can see" or something like that but reddit and 4chan literally have porn so wtf
My old school blocked the word "sad" and whenever I typed it in, doesn't matter where, I'd get a visitation notice, so I just typed in "emotionally distressed".
They didn't block Reddit for some reason.
your school is awful
Omg basded shcool??? 😂😂😂
"What do you mean sad, all of our students are wondrously happy!" (sponsored by Reddit)
my school also doesn't block reddit
Seeing the google docs one seriously reminded me of how my school blocks things. Obviously, a large amount of websites are blocked. For some reason, Fandom is blocked, and so is any video game or tv show wiki in existence. The screen that shows when a website is blocked is that exact screen.
Also, on Wikipedia being a forum/blog, it kinda is the first one. There's a "talk" section on every single article. Click on it, and you read literal comments on the articles. The comments look like miniature Wikipedia pages, complete with the large title. They aren't really comments, more like annotations. You can edit someone else's one.
One time I was chatting with my friend about different writing systems, and we eventually got to Devanagari. He didn’t know what it looked like, so I looked it up to show him, and to my surprise, it was blocked. No other writing system was blocked. I still to this day have no idea why.
My old school was so bad. I coded some games and released them, and I had a website for them. A teacher heard me talking about my games, and I find the next day -- my website is blocked. My own freaking tiny website is blocked and I know exactly who's responsible. I then played a game of cyber chasey with them and made 3 more websites before they finally gave up
I wanted to show my friends my mediocre speedruns because they were playing the same game at the time, and it turns out my RUclips account is blocked by the school wtfff
Damn that's actually impressive though, coding your own games just to play at school?
@@donpollo3154I mean it could be exported from scratch into a website like how mountain games does it
@@donpollo3154 I was bored, hated the school, and by that point (it was a couple weeks before I would move to my new school) the teachers new I had checked out I think. They tried to give me detentions but I pointed out that I wouldn't actually be there for them next week. They said I had to come back from orientation after school to take the detentions. I told them no. It was so good.
Do the websites still exist? Send a link
One time, my school blocked Kahoot and Blooket. This isn’t as weird as some others, but the problem was that many subjects depended on using them to teach us…
Good, Kahoot desered to be blocked.
@@FirestarTTR2000nah man my school blocked Blooket and not kahoot and im so sad
@@FirestarTTR2000What did Kahoot do to you?
I'm pretty sure you can go to hell for blocking Kahoot.
@@FirestarTTR2000you must be a teacher that hates when students select a funny user name on Kahoot
my school blocked wikipedia, the dinosaur game when you dont have internet, youtube, zoom, coolmathgames, amazon, and the dominos app.
Our school administrators somehow managed to block all Google doodle games
One of my schools had a web filter that blocked practically everything. It was as much a problem for the teachers as it was for anyone else. I still remember one teacher repeatedly getting more and more irritated as every single lesson plan of his got thwarted by this filter until he gave up entirely and ended class early.
Not sure if I’ve ever had a teacher who hasn’t been enraged by the RUclips restrictions. They now often use their own devices on a Wi-Fi hotspot. Stuff like Amazon movies also gets blocked, leading to piracy in order to show the class educational movies.
@@sylvanticx i guess you could say its criminal how bad the restrictions are ahaha
@@soupcangaming662 lmao
at my school the filters only apply to student devices, so instead sometimes teachers have to play "is this website gonna be blocked for the kids" roulette
I got Cool Math for Games unblocked forever at my middle school. I proved to a district school board employee that lunar lander was a learning thing that taught critical thinking and taught kids how to do complicated math without any issues. I mostly pulled shit out of my ass but the way I said it was pure genius. I also had the person play the game and they literally took about 10 minutes of me explaining simple stuff in the game before the guy literally got the hang of it and declared they are unbanning it in all schools in my city and will keep it unbanned forever or as long as they can try to keep it unbanned and it has never been banned again. Lunar Lander makes you have to learn to control the angles of the shit and the planet and keep an eye on your fuel gage and distance gauge in order to keep playing the game and to be able to keep going as far as you can get into the game secretly teaching kids geometry and algebra while being actually fun to play. By mastering the ability of playing lunar lander you in fact master the ability to learn geometry and algebra at the same time. Its a secret training tool to actually teach children math disguised as a fun game.
I mean... that's literally why it's called "cool MATH games", after all.
It's the most frustrating part of schools banning a lot of stuff, is they often actively ban stuff that's literally educational, intended to be educational, and is way more engaging for someone younger than reading a textbook is, and then they all wonder why grades consistently drop and students hate school.
I can 100% say I've learned more genuine skills from playing video games than I ever did in public school. ESPECIALLY math. And I'm saying this as a 30 y/o adult.
And it's not just like, one or 2 subjects.
Math, physics, history, language recognition, biology, design, computer science, cryptography, medical science, handicrafts, English, etc. etc. etc. etc.
P.E. is pretty much the only thing that pre-college/university school really provides better than self-education honestly does. But even that is often pathetic compared to actually having access to an actual gym, as just running a bunch really doesn't do much for anything other than basic stamina lol.
Like, yeah, proper higher education is still needed, but... I'll be honest, playing games with high intellectual requirements, such as games that have lua coding as a gameplay requirement, or stuff like KSP or hyper modded minecraft, as well as stuff like crusader kings, that has actual historical value, among MANY other games, will probably teach your average person WAY more about general life skills and get them using their brain more, than "memorize this and repeat it on a test next week" ever will.
I mean... I literally have the equivalent math skills of a master's degree, despite having never taken a single advanced math class, purely because of video game damage formulas and whatnot. And I can say this with confidence, as my aunt is a math professor who just recently got her phd and I've generally been able to keep up with her.
@@AtomicArtumasomg geoguessr, globle, and like every other world geography-related game is banned including the obscure geography wordle-isms at my school
I played that checker game on cool math games all the time. It had a *brutal* AI when you played against the computer. I am now pretty good at checkers.
you are a god
@@flop-00 They banned geoguessr's stuff involving quizzes such as "Southern States and Capitals" which we were using *in class* because it was labelled as "educational games".
the school will instantly kick me out of whatever website I'm on, if I write "unbloc" in the search bar
but I can just search "unblocked games", and it autocorrects to "unblocked games" lol
One of the categories for why a website was blocked at my secondary was “Education”
My school blocked wattpad but they didn't block AO3, so I started reading fanfiction on A03 instead and I gotta say It was the one of the best decisions in my life. Thanks high school, guess you were good for something after all Lmao!
Royal Road enjoyers rise up
They did the same for me and now I just can’t read on wattpad at all because the quality of the stuff on there is so bad. Ao3 permentantly raised my fanfic standards and I will forever be grateful for that
i still read both wattpad and ao3 but im very picky about the wattpad ones
I read smut on AO3 at school, they have nit discovered it yet
@@LittleBlackKittyCat one of my ex-friends did that, but I don’t because I’m violently asexual
My old school didn't block anything ridiculous, but their blocking of one video game led to a covert blocking/unblocking war in which someone coded an unblocking software, the school banned the website, and so on and so forth.
My school has no clue what a proxy site is so they don’t even block it. You can literally watch porn using one it’s fucking great.
@@JTBJacksdeadasschannel why are you watching porn in school
My school blocked TV tropes the reason was “streaming content” and that was the only place I could go when I was done with my school work because every single time I tried to go to another site after being done with school work it would be blocked a few days later.
My school-issued computer just blocks things I need to use as sources for research papers. Sometimes it just blocks things for no reason. I started bringing my own laptop in shortly after, and while there was still a proxy server on the other end that would block things, it was more lax on things and actually would block things for understandable reasons.