• JaymesRS@literature.cafe
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    16 hours ago

    That is exactly what is happening. They type in the search query on their Chromebook (for example, “why do dry erase markers float”, the results page flashes for a second and then the “this page is blocked” screen comes up saying they were blocked from Reddit, et al. Without them clicking on any search results.

    And 2 kids can do the exact same search at the same time and get blocked for different sites or only one will get blocked.

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          13 hours ago

          Oh I thought it was a typo. I have no idea what coursehero is.

          I will say coursera is awesome for their calculus classes. (Or they were like 10+ years ago anyway.) Which caught me up after a long hiatus from college when I returned to finish.

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            12 hours ago

            To be fair, I don’t know that we don’t block coursera as well but the block I specifically saw was for a course hero. And some of the blocks that we have on are for security reasons over reliability reasons. We have to be hyper cautious about the students leaking any potentially PHI and some of the Google sign in setups are less secure than others.