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Now every public school that uses Chromebooks is going to have children get served ads on taxpayer dollars?
What could go wrong?
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As if they didn't already?
It's a sad state of affairs modern schools have when an instructor tries to pull up a video on YouTube or other sites to use in class, and an entire classroom of children have to sit through the unskippable ads.
I guess I'll take that over the TV documentaries my teachers used to record on VHS that had commercials to fast forward through, but the modern internet truly sucks.
Yup and a significant portion of those ads are definatly not school appropriate... From the mobile game ads that show a mostly naked lady, alcohol, soft-porn (chatbot type stuff), jump scares and whatever other crap google exempts from their "guidelines" for a quick buck.
The only (official) way to have all kid firendly ads is to use YouTube Kids, which also blocks all the usefull educational videos for anyone older than 4.
Google's Admin Console has an option to continue enabling Manifest V2 extensions. Most schools would be wise to lock down which extensions they let users install anyway, and the zero trust approach is to just deploy what's needed for access to curriculum.
pi-hole
At school?
Especially at school.
Ubiquity routers have had blocking in them it's not a stretch to expand that out to other enterprise
The three schools I do IT work for ALL run Pi-Hole VMs.
Gotta get em while they're young, marketing execs drooling over the new wave of consumerist indoctrination!
It is a good point: other platforms [other than iOS] have an easy solution (Firefox), but on Chromebooks you're relatively locked in because you have to jump through hoops installing the Linux environment in order to use it.