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Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! (tuta.com)
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[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Somewhat OT but why do you block coursera?

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

We have a different person that manages our block list so I don't know the reason for all the blocks. That said, we block https://www.coursehero.com/ not https://www.coursera.org/

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 11 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.