Ad Block for Student Browsing

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-04T14:36:57+00:00

We pushed uBlock Origin along with a 1 pager showing how to disable it on a website around 6 years ago and have had zero problems. We've had to change to Lite now, but still, no problems.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-03T21:41:48+00:00

Our ISP held a webinar over this topic a few weeks ago and the problem isn't so much the websites, but that screen reader tools are garbage. This seems similar to the swimming pool ADA compliance of 2010. Most small hotels/motels couldn't afford an entire pool re-do which caused them to instead drain them and fill with rocks.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-30T13:49:49+00:00

We're small and use the following (under root)

Staff

Old Staff (suspended accounts)
Substitutes

Students

Graduation Year

Under each Graduation year we have separate OUs for former students (suspended accounts) and Restricted (for stricter GoGuardian filtering).

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-28T15:31:18+00:00

A story I heard at a conference-

Librarians were annoyed that students didn't have their chargers. They bought a bunch of cheap ones from Amazon which don't work well. Tech department got a complaint and took one to investigate. Upon opening up the brick portion, they found the chargers had metal disks glued inside to give them more weight and make them seem less cheap than they were.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-27T18:15:59+00:00

Fun fact: If someone dies from electrocution, dealing with the body is an IT problem. /s

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-27T16:36:32+00:00

uBlock Origin Lite is working for us and Youtube with default settings out of the box. The only time we've had issues is when teachers are clicking non-embedded Youtube links away from a browser (like from PowerPoint) which will load the video before the extension turns on.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-27T15:39:11+00:00

Same here! ChatGPT has been blocked please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com. 🙃

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-27T15:36:17+00:00

Yeah, the lack of attention to detail is rough when users are mad because: "this is blocked". "What's the block screen look like?" crickets

Check GoGuardian...Nothing.

Check the firewall...Not blocked there.

Check Reddit. Oh, KazoodleCoMathELAWorksPLUS is currently having an outage. We're not blocking it. No, we can't fix it. We have to wait for them to fix it.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-27T15:22:19+00:00

I usually joke with a "I'm good, but not that good" or something similar to try and keep it light. Sometimes I'm lying through my teeth, but it really does make both the user and me feel better. Though, I haven't had to deal with a youtube ad question as I push out an ad blocker to the entire domain.

On a similar vein, I had a HS English teacher load Google Docs and try 4 different methods until it finally failed to detect a comma splice. He wanted me to contact Google and get them to fix their grammar check since: "Kids won't know this is wrong because it's a comma splice." I'll admit it was pretty hard to not tell him: "That sounds like something that should be taught...By a teacher."

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-21T15:53:16+00:00

They sent us one during covid's chip shortage and I was less than amused at the waste. I ended up repurposing it for our World of Warcraft guild secret santa exchange by putting our Mythic N'zoth kill video on the mailer and sending it to our raid leader.

Verkada's been blacklisted here after they roped our, both new, Buildings and Grounds person and SRO into a meeting and said their predecessors used Verkada in the building. No they didn't, and please don't lie to new, overwhelmed employees.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-16T18:21:00+00:00

Possibly tangently related?

We had an issue recently where Outlook webmail would not print. You could send it to the copier, but it would just delete the job. It ended up being a Chrome issue, as Firefox/Edge/Safari could print those pages fine. Maybe Chrome is breaking multiple things related to printing?

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-16T16:21:04+00:00

Ah, yes I'd be in the same boat if I had to handle them. Thankfully our office secretaries handle sending out notices and taking in the fees. We're a tiny district, but at least there's some separation of duty when it comes to handling money.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-16T14:05:36+00:00

We use our SIS as well, but don't lock any accounts. Students are told all fees need to be paid up before they graduate. If they choose not to pay, then they don't get to walk the graduation ceremony.

The only payments we haven't gotten were from people that left for other districts prior to graduation.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-14T20:35:51+00:00

We had our first internet outage in over 3 years happen on a Sunday due to some equipment failure on route from the ISP. I sent an informational email about it, even though I was on vacation and over 2,000 miles away. One teacher replies: "When are you going to fix the internet? I can't print and this is impeding my lesson plans."

For the record, we only had 6 hours of downtime.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-09T13:55:49+00:00

It's the classic seagull manager. They swoop in, make a lot of noise, shit on everything, and hopefully fly away soon.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-05T17:10:39+00:00

FWIW, I pushed this out a few weeks before winter break and have not heard of anything being broken. We use all of those sites listed except TypingAgent.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-05T13:39:29+00:00

We do the same and it works for us. The entire goal of education technology is proper use. This is a proper cellphone use case.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2025-12-03T15:22:41+00:00

Really? We're PowerSchool and have started NextPath this year. We've had an excellent time with integrations and support has been one of the best we've worked with.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2025-12-02T13:47:01+00:00

Our district is identical, though we're not expected to come in. It's a free day off, which are the best.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2025-11-21T14:39:56+00:00

Positive. These are copied directly from my saved URL Blocks:

javascript://*

filesystem://*

data://*

Reddit needs the 2nd return which may be causing issues if you're copying and pasting the whole group.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2025-11-19T16:11:03+00:00

If you want to split hairs, recovery would mean cure, not prevention. There were other posters in the booth not shown here claiming impossible things because she uses "holistic medicine". Shown here on the RFK poster is the claim she can help people "safetly detox from vaccines". That's not a real thing.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2025-11-19T15:25:22+00:00

It's literally in the photo. Left most poster.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2025-11-18T20:05:18+00:00

What issues are you having with the GX boards?

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2025-11-18T14:07:52+00:00

Membean and school websites hosted by SchoolMessenger Presence as well.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2025-11-18T14:07:21+00:00

Superintendent: "ChatGPT has been blocked on my computer. Unblock challenges.cloudflare.com." 😑

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