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It turns out only some videos are blocked (which just happens to be the majority). There is no correlation between date and block status. You can tell if a video is blocked or not by the thumbnail. The one on the left is blocked, but you can watch the one on the right.

HCPSS better be seeing this. They should know that we keep tabs constantly.

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Dang, Howard County got beef with YouTube! They just blocked watching... videos??? What's up with that?

No matter. There will always be proxies and unblockers. They cannot lock us out forever.

Just because it's the end of the school year does not mean that we will stop using these.

UPDATE: videos have returned.

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Ok this is getting stupid. There is no way HCPSS seriously blocked PLAYLISTS. Block category is the same as current YouTube shorts.

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On this day, as observed, the block screen category for YouTube Shorts has been changed to "it is on a custom block list" to "of your organization's YouTube rules".

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Here are a few links that may take you to different parts of the HCPSS web:

hcpss.me

staff.hcpss.org

staff.hcpss.org/news

news.hcpss.org/news-posts/2026

hcpss.instructure.com

youtube.com/@HCPSSTV/videos

Remember: These links are all publicly accessible.

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On April 1rst, 2026, the website youraislopbores.me got blocked for "Artificial Intelligence". This is NOT a joke. However, what is a joke is how it's categorized. If the blockers really did look at the site, they'd categorize it as 'Games' or 'Security - Proxy' or whatever, not AI, because there is no actual AI content being generated, just humans MIMICKING AI! Howard County needs to do better than this, at the very least!

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On January 29, 2026, I tested this URL and it was blocked. Not sure when they blocked it but it was probably in January.

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See the raw code for the block screens using this file and a text editor! Debloated for download speed purposes.

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Change in the Maximum Number of Tabs Allowed on Student Chromebooks

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Change in the Maximum Number of Tabs Allowed on Student Chromebooks

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Starting Tuesday, Jan. 27 (2026), a new feature on student chromebooks will allow teachers to limit the number of tabs students may open during their class sessions and sets the maximum number of browser tabs that can be opened to 50 both during and after school. Teachers may choose a lower number of allowed tabs during class to help students stay focused.

Source: January 22's Student Newsletter on Canvas

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...is not available because it is categorized as:

Access Denied

Ads

AI - Detective

AI - Generative

Alcohol

Approved Games

Artificial Intelligence

Audio/Video

Automobile

Business

Business - Construction

Business - Finance

Business - Jobs

Business - Manufacturing

Business - Real Estate

Computers

Computers - Analytics

Computers - Consumer Electronics

Computers - File Hosting

Computers - Storage

Digital Insight - Not Approved Hosts

Directory

Discord

Drugs

Education

Education - Arts

Education - Games

Education - History

Education - Literature

Education - Media

Education - Music

Education - Science

Education - Sex

Education - Social Science

Education Videos

Entertainment

Entertainment - Radio and TV

Expired

Facebook

Family

Family - Food

Family - Health

Family - Religion

Forums

Forums - Blogs

Forums - Dating

Forums - Email

Forums - IM

Forums - Newsgroups

Forums - p2p

Forums - Personals

Forums - Social Networking

Gambling

Games

General

Government

Ham

High School Only

Hobby

Humor

Instagram

Kids and Teens

Kids and Teens - Chat

Law

Mature

Mature - Art

Mature - Body Art

Mature - Games

Mature - Language

Microsoft

Music

News

Non-Instructional Audio-Video

Non-Instructional Games

Offensive

Parked

Photography

Pinterest

Plagiarism

P**n

P**n - Illicit

SafeSearch

Search

Secondary Health

Security

Security - Domain Sharing

Security - Malware

Security - Nettools

Security - Proxy

Security - Shorteners

Security - Translators

Security - Warez

Shopping

Shopping - Auctions

Shopping - Office Supplies

Society

Society - Crime

Society - Politics

Spam

Spam - Shopping

Sports

Sports - Esports

Sports - Fantasy

Sports - Martial Arts

Sports - Youth

Suspicious

Travel

Unapproved Sites

Unknown

Unknown .Zip and .Mov TLDs

Violence

Violence - Extremism

Weapons

World

World - Chinese

World - French

World - German

World - Italian

World - Japanese

World - Korean

World - Netherlands

World - Polish

World - Portuguese

World - Russian

World - Spanish

X (formerly Twitter)

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On December 15th 2025, around 1:50 PM more tests were run and it was found that YouTube Shorts was blocked, for the reason "it is on a custom block list". This looks permanent.

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A few days after Google Sites was blocked, it was unblocked again. This was the same day most 9th graders as LRHS got their new Chromebooks, with the popular URL unblocked.

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On December 15th 2025 for a brief moment around 12:30, YouTube was blocked due to it being added to a "Custom Block List". The tab then closed itself. After a few more seconds, YouTube was retried and unblocked again.

Are they testing out blocking YouTube? Or are they adding more features for teachers?

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On September 18, ~11:00 AM to ~12:00 PM, sites.google.com was added to the block list due to it being an "Unapproved Site".

This means that games sites like ConstructionCreeper, G+, and Make Your Own Proxy are unreachable. You can't even EDIT your own Google Sites unless you have a personal computer that is NOT provided by the county/school system.