YouTube Blocked at School

[Choi9111]

Well my frustration is that unfortunately ALLLL the computers at our school blocks youtube (thanks to some dumb students) so i started this thread to see if any of you teams that have movies files of your robots could maybe send me a link (that is not youtube) so we can see what all you other teams have accomplished! Thanks for anything you guys can do!

[lancerbotics]

I'm glad to see that we are not the only ones with this problem

[raymaniac]

Yeah, it happened to us too.

[Otsumami]

you may be able to use google to upload the videos and view them. you would have to check to see if google video can be accessed from your school.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by raymaniac

Yeah, it happened to us too.

Actually it didn't. You can still get to Youtube, Google Video, etc. just fine. But they un-installed flash video on all of them (and students don't have install rights), so it's even worse for us.
But you can always watch at home!

[raymaniac]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

But you can always watch at home!

Actually, parental controls are blocking it.

[meatmanek]

I would suggest not breaking school rules. Breaking school rules on behalf of your team is not a good way to make your administration happy with your team.
The best way to view the files would be to view them at home. If you must view them at school, ask your teacher if there is a way around your school's web blocking software. Often times, teachers are given less restricted access to the web. If this fails, you and a teacher should ask your principal or network administrator nicely to allow you to view youtube/Google Video.

PS. David, you probably should have looked at the 6 posts before yours which were deleted before posting.

[Doug G]

Folks, schools have filters for a reason - deal with it!! One thing we can all do is STOP UPLOADING TO YOUTUBE and USE GOOGLE VIDEO!! That way at least we can download the videos at home and show them at school using the standalone player.

[Katie Reynolds]

As you can see, multiple posts in this thread have been deleted by moderators. The reason for deleting these posts is CD is not a place for discussing how to bypass school filters. If discussion like this continues, this thread will be closed.

[JYang]

our school has blocked youtube too. and google video isn't working really good.

[Charger_07]

As you can see, multiple posts in this thread have been deleted by moderators. The reason for deleting these posts is CD is not a place for discussing how to bypass school filters. If discussion like this continues, this thread will be closed

everyone knows there are ways of getting around the filters, the intent of the thread was to ask teams to not post on youtube....i dont think the thread should be shut down b*c people keep saying ways to get past the filters, we cant keep people from doing that and we arent asking them to do that either

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Well, ours has blocked it all and un-installed flash. But i can still watch some of the videoes because im cool. (cant say how). Im always on CD around the same time...and people can probably tell when i am by my posts. I dont need to watch the videos though...CUZ IM DOING WORK...hehe

[Tomasz Bania]

Our school has it blocked but our techs block the sites in a way that you can't access it by typing www.youtube.com, but you can access it through just typing in youtube.com . They realize their mistakes eventually, and our remote-firewall run by a company is very stringent, but as posted before, blocks websites that are used for school. Luckily i'm in web design at my school and because of a programming error our class is the only class that actually has more rights than a teacher has (Nothing major, but usually useful, such as unlimited logins which is great for robotics meetings so we don't have to wait for everyone to login, I just login on all of them when I get there).

P.S. I think the youtube.com spelling used to access it is made so that smart people who actually add the www can't use it, jk.

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Charger_07

I HATE WEBSENSE!!! it makes life miserable at school, .....miserable is dramatic i know, but it blocks random stuff, mostly useful stuff

Same here!! Only we use something else with a weird name. A lot of times we need information about something, for instance, Kevin's site was blocked, which hosts the camera default code. I don't condone what we did, and yes, I know we shouldn't have. But Bedford is pretty strict with their everything. Believe me. And with the process it would've taken for them to approve the site, our children still wouldn't be able to access it.

[artdutra04]

Most school systems block 'user content' sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Myspace, Geocities, and so on, as they have no idea what can appear in the pages in those sites. There's not much you can do except download the videos at home (Which is yet another great reason to use Mozilla Firefox! ) and bring them in on a USB drive to watch at school.

Or... The best way to solve the problem is to talk directly to your IT department and briefly outline any exact issues that you need solved. Chances are they won't buy a YouTube story, but if certain websites like ChiefDelphi are on the block list they can unblock them easily enough. Instead of yelling at them about how stupid their rules are, if you act as a gracious profesional they can magically unblock some websites (or at the very minimum, set lessened restrictions on certain websites).