Leaf Browser in Global ban list for CIPA

[KevinAGI]

The extension stopped working on chromebooks at the School I do IT Support for. Any reason? are there any URL's associated with it that might get caught in CIPA Compliant filters?

Kevin

[SvicidalBug]

Not working anymore for me anymore either. In the Chrome Store there is a message that says that this item was disabled in Chrome. Clicking Enable does nothing.

[s0]

Strange, I'm not sure how schools typically do filtering for chromebooks, but i don't specifically do any filtering for this app, so it's likely it allows URLs that are usually blocked by chrome?

[KevinAGI]

Are you using some kind of proxy service in the background?

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Strange, I'm not sure how schools typically do filtering for chromebooks, but i don't specifically do any filtering for this app, so it's likely it allows URLs that are usually blocked by chrome?

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[KevinAGI]

Well it seems your Extension has been added to the Global ban list for CIPA compliant filtering. Leaf Browser Alpha is an extension that is know to bypass filtering and monitoring.

[s0]

No proxies... It just uses chrome's settings directly. Oh well...

[s0]

Out of curiosity, do you have a link with this information?

[KevinAGI]

No it was told to me in a chat session by my security company.

XXXX Leaf Browser Alpha is an extension that is know to bypass filtering and monitoring. It was recently added to the global extension blacklist. Kevin Christopher ahh!! unfortunately it had some good features for some of our more Challenged kids "Autistic"

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Out of curiosity, do you have a link with this information?

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[s0]

Could I ask how filtering is set up on these devices? I may be able to think about a work-around / way to hook in to that? And if that fails check URLs against the list manually myself.

Are these on ChromeOS devices / chromebooks? Or is this just chrome on Windows / OSX / Other?

[s0]

Are these on ChromeOS devices / chromebooks? Or is this just chrome on Windows / OSX / Other?

ah you've already said these are chromebooks

[KevinAGI]

Feel free to email me direct

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Sam Lanning notifications@github.com wrote:

Are these on ChromeOS devices / chromebooks? Or is this just chrome on Windows / OSX / Other?

ah you've already said these are chromebooks

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[s0]

I don't have an email address for you. Could you send me an email: sam@samlanning.com

[Timvrakas]

The main reason for it being blocked is that some schools rely on browser-level blocks for school Chromebooks, in order to prevent students from watching Netflix when at home, or outside the censored school networks. This plugin doesn't carry over the (inane) level of blocking some services provide, and so it is blocked.

The upside is that anyone who still wants to use it can just recompile it themselves (with a different extension ID/name) and side load it as an unpacked extension.

[KevinAGI]

You may call it inane, but you are not the one who is on the hook for all the law suites and requests during cyber bully incidents. I call it not giving anyone a reason to blame the school therefore removing technology from teaching. We can always go back to clay and cuneiform.

Kevin Christopher Editor/Post Production Supervisor 404-358-3101

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Tim Vrakas notifications@github.com wrote:

The main reason for it being blocked is that some schools rely on browser-level blocks for school Chromebooks, in order to prevent students from watching Netflix when at home, or outside the censored school networks. This plugin doesn't carry over the (inane) level of blocking some services provide, and so it is blocked.

The upside is that anyone who still wants to use it can just recompile it themselves (with a different extension ID/name) and side load it as an unpacked extension.

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[Timvrakas]

I understand that completely. For this project it's probably best to figure out how to make it follow the rules or just accept it's blocked for now.

[ghost]

@Timvrakas I downloaded the project and even after a few tweaks to the styles, I wasn't able to get it to look like anything but this. I suspect that this is because of how crap Chrome OS is, and that it doesn't support relative linking across files. Is there a quick fix for this, or do I have to go through all the files?

[s0]

You need to run grunt to generate the styles from the less.

See: https://github.com/samlanning/leaf-browser/blob/master/README.md#installation

[ghost]

@samlanning I see. Thanks!