Comments on: How to Watch Netflix on School WiFi in 2023

By: Bill Hess

Bill Hess — Mon, 14 May 2018 10:47:07 +0000

In reply to Amarty. You might want to avoid checking adult sites. Schools and organizations generally keep logs of the sites everyone visits. It's possible to get in trouble for these, even if the content isn't filtered automatically (which is really should be in a school).

By: Bill Hess

Bill Hess — Mon, 14 May 2018 10:45:03 +0000

In reply to Gene.

Hi Gene, that’s a fair point and I acknowledge that it’s a bit of a grey area. Without knowing each individual case, it’s impossible to say what is right and what is wrong.

The play devil’s advocate for a second, the way in which many filtering systems are set up is pretty archaic. They use blanket bans for a pre-defined list of words or phrases. Certain sites are completely blocked. While nobody here is trying to encourage kids to skip class and watch TV all day, platforms such as Netflix do offer a great amount of educational content.

I’d love for content filtering to be much smarter, then few people would even need workarounds.

By: Gene

Gene — Sun, 06 May 2018 13:48:53 +0000

CIPA (Children’s Internet Protection Act) of 2000 merely forced all schools and libraries to implement filtering. More restrictive filtering is subject to organization policy. For nearly any method of circumvention, there’s a way to detect and block the traffic. Encouraging learning is the goal in a school or library but heavy desired streaming use can easily interfere with legitimate traffic, impeding the educational process. Larger bandwidth capabilities cost money that not all organizations have.

Even 4G WiFi hotspot use could interfere if normal clients use the 2.4GHz band (as most hot spots don’t use 5GHz). There are even technological means to interfere with WiFi hotspots though it can quickly go out of control.

Circumventing filters might seem cool but can carry repercussions, including legal ramifications.

By: lhklj

lhklj — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:45:59 +0000

once our blocker went down for three months

By: Amarty

Amarty — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:45:34 +0000

Allright Addicting Games is blocked, Pornhub isn’t. WTF

(yes i checked)

By: Marvrenae

Marvrenae — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:01:30 +0000

It was just so awesome you know

By: Marvrenae

Marvrenae — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:00:39 +0000

Yeah I liked it too!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:41:36 +0000

In reply to Name *. Is it just the websites of the VPN company, or the VPN itself? Something else you might want to look into is Shadowsocks

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:36:34 +0000

In reply to Name *. Most systems which block sites are automated so there are usually some mistakes in the algorithm like this :)

By: Maya

Maya — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:33:49 +0000

I like the movies here.