alt Hacker NewsThat's objectively not true. You can just use your own DNS server and lock the settings app either through android mdm policies or an locker app.
That's objectively not true. You can just use your own DNS server and lock the settings app either through android mdm policies or an locker app.
No that doesn’t work - tried it.
Google is basically its own private internet. It caches content so you can access all sorts of terrible stuff just from Google.com (and its related domains).
But if you cut Google you cut Google Classroom - which is required.
And Google Classroom itself has many workarounds.
This isn’t just a Google problem. The centralization of the Internet around a few mixed content domains really kills conventional filtering.
Paradoxically, there are so many centralized domains that even if you can block one, it’s just a game of whack a mole.
Eventually you just block the whole internet - and then what’s the point? Take away the 20 most popular mixed content platforms, messaging, etc, and you’re effectively blocking the whole internet.
The kids can’t contact their friends, watch educational videos, or any other legitimate use.