Wolfieboy09 wrote:

(#1838)
My school has it where devices (you can bring your laptop), are connected to the school wifi, they can block websites by blocking the response/not returning the DNS record, and I found a way to bypass it: Use a VPN. To log into the school wifi, you need your school username and password, and you in.

zaid1442011 wrote:

Wolfieboy09 wrote:

(#1838)
My school has it where devices (you can bring your laptop), are connected to the school wifi, they can block websites by blocking the response/not returning the DNS record, and I found a way to bypass it: Use a VPN. To log into the school wifi, you need your school username and password, and you in.

If the school uses DNS to block stuff, then it's simple: Change the DNS server from the default (to something like 1.1.1.1).

zaid1442011 wrote:

Wolfieboy09 wrote:

(#1838)
My school has it where devices (you can bring your laptop), are connected to the school wifi, they can block websites by blocking the response/not returning the DNS record, and I found a way to bypass it: Use a VPN. To log into the school wifi, you need your school username and password, and you in.

If the school uses DNS to block stuff, then it's simple: Change the DNS server from the default (to something like 1.1.1.1).

• youtube isnt blocked with the web filter, its blocked with your google account. so if you just log out you can watch youtube lol, in practice its only blocked on the chromebooks
  
• on the chromebooks you cant use inspect element
  
• on the chromebooks you cant clear browser history (understandable but you can on the proper computers)
  
• the internet archive is blocked as ‘tasteless/illegal/questionable.’ archive.today is blocked for being a ‘proxy anonymiser’ as youd expect
  
• specific wikirby pages are blocked as ‘games’ but not the whole website. like i cant look at the Kirby page but i can look at That book Meta Knight was reading on the knoll in the opening cutscene for Kirby's Return to Dream Land and Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe… and old revisions of the Kirby page for that matter :P
  
• xkcd is blocked as ‘entertainment, profanity;’ explainxkcd is fine
  

Alpha_Centuria wrote:

To bad my school bans GitHub

BigNate469 wrote:

My school blocked Chrome's developer console

logabe wrote:

Alpha_Centuria wrote:

To bad my school bans GitHub

I don't know what you're using GitHub for, or if there are any specific repos you need, but maybe try checking out codeberg.org? It's the same thing as GitHub (except it isn't a closed-source platform run by a tech giant that uses your code to train AI models)

josueart wrote:

BigNate469 wrote:

My school blocked Chrome's developer console

I never understood why schools block the dev console. Ignorance, perhaps.

codingfire23 wrote:

I'm pretty sure one of my friends said that the blocked websites is a whitelist instead of a blacklist. (For those who don't know what that is, a whitelist is a list of allowed websites. You can only go to websites on the whitelist.)

GvYoutube wrote:

(#1843)

zaid1442011 wrote:

Wolfieboy09 wrote:

(#1838)
My school has it where devices (you can bring your laptop), are connected to the school wifi, they can block websites by blocking the response/not returning the DNS record, and I found a way to bypass it: Use a VPN. To log into the school wifi, you need your school username and password, and you in.

If the school uses DNS to block stuff, then it's simple: Change the DNS server from the default (to something like 1.1.1.1).

Thanks for the suggestion!
Sadly,

My schools IT isnt dumb!

BigNate469 wrote:

My school blocked Chrome's developer console and actually expects to be able to run a successful web design class.

That's one of the reasons I rarely sign into Chrome using my school Google account anymore.

MineTurte wrote:

BigNate469 wrote:

My school blocked Chrome's developer console and actually expects to be able to run a successful web design class.

That's one of the reasons I rarely sign into Chrome using my school Google account anymore.

I don't see why you'd necessarily need to use developer console for web design class. I feel like most classes wouldn't use google developer console for teaching and instead something like VScode or really any programming app that has web design compatibility. Correct me if i'm wrong though, I don't really use the developer console much at all.

BigNate469 wrote:

VSCode doesn't run on a Chromebook without access to the built-in Debian Linux terminal (which the school also blocked), and there are very few computers in the school that don't run ChromeOS or ChromeOS Flex, and most of them are owned by individual students and teachers.

Which leaves us with web-based options… which run everything in the browser, and execute code in the browser as well.

As a result, the dev console is the only good way to debug those programs, and while there are various systems to emulate a dev console, they don't necessarily work as well. Additionally, running JS code in it doesn't always work, as some browsers by default disable the use of eval() and the function constructor for security reasons.

Moss-Star44 wrote:

My School forgot to ban games with but banned Warrior Cats games. They put Scratch on Clever, an app-website used to access district-wide resources. We learn coding in school too, such as robot C coding and putting AI in block coding projects.

josueart wrote:

BigNate469 wrote:

My school blocked Chrome's developer console

I never understood why schools block the dev console. Ignorance, perhaps.