Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 8 hours agoThat is exactly what is happening. They type in the search query on their Chromebook, 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.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Somewhat OT but why do you block coursera?
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 6 hours ago
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 www.coursehero.com not www.coursera.org
jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
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 5 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.