Smoothwall - google games

[Bagpuss66]

Hi, we have tried this in the advanced policies creating a policy named Block Snake but the game still works.

We ticked the website html block option, is there anything else we need to do ?

Sorry just checked this on internet explorer and it works, the students use google chrome most the time here.

Is there a way to block it on chrome?

[Courtney_Impero]

Hi, we have tried this in the advanced policies creating a policy named Block Snake but the game still works.

We ticked the website html block option, is there anything else we need to do ?

 

Hi @Bagpuss66,

 

Would you mind sending me a screenshot of the policy applied via PM?

 

We'll take a further look into this for you and see what we can do.

 

Many Thanks,

 

Courtney @ Impero

[atechguy]

Sorry to revive an old thread. but did this work in the end?

[Hybrid]

Sorry to revive an old thread. but did this work in the end?

 

Wondering about this too. It would seem the game Minesweeper is coming back into fashion again but it's baked straight into google.com

[timbo343]

Okay, i think i've found something as the Google Doodles are doing the rounds at our place.

 

The smoothwall is allowing the doodles from google.co.uk / google.nl / google.ro... and so on.

 

The smoothwall is only blocking the doodle games from google.com.

 

The google.com doodle games are being blocked under Online Games in the smoothwall however they are not being detected from any other google domain.

[timbo343]

Update to this:

 

I've found the URLs to the games so if you wanted to test add google.co.uk/ or google.nl/ or google.ro/ to the beginning of the following URLs.

 

I've added a regex of logos\/2018\/gnomes\/gnomes18\.html for each game under URL Filter for Online Games.

 

GNOMES

logos/2018/gnomes/gnomes18.html

 

Cricket

logos/2017/cricket17/cricket17.html

 

Champion Island

logos/2020/kitsune/rc6/kitsune20.html

 

Coding

logos/2017/logo17/logo17.html

 

fischinger

logos/doodles/2017/fischinger/fischinger17.9.html

 

Rockmore

logos/2016/rockmore/rockmore16.html

 

Scoville

logos/2016/scoville/scoville16.html

 

Loteria

logos/2019/loteria/rc2/loteria19.html

 

Halloween

logos/2016/halloween16/halloween16.html

 

Hiphop

logos/2017/hiphop/hiphop17.html

 

PACMAN

logos/2010/pacman10-i.html

[Joeloman]

Have you tried this?

 

[h=1]Removing Doodles/Adverts/Translation & Videos from Google[/h]https://kb.smoothwall.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003550360

[ItsOnlyAniPad]

Has anyone been able to successfully block the google games either via impero or smoothwall yet? Pupils just default to these google games now as realise they are one of few websites that aren't blocked.

[ITGuyNW]

Has anyone been able to successfully block the google games either via impero or smoothwall yet? Pupils just default to these google games now as realise they are one of few websites that aren't blocked.

 

Apart from disabling javascript completely to make google look like a mess.... nope.

[timbo343]

Has anyone been able to successfully block the google games either via impero or smoothwall yet? Pupils just default to these google games now as realise they are one of few websites that aren't blocked.

 

My way works by blocking each URL via Smoothwall and i've also applied the Smoothwall work around at https://kb.smoothwall.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003550360

 

For the pizza game, i have created a URL Pattern google\.\w{1,3}(?:\.\w{1,3})?\/logos\/\d so that it captures any "google.* domain \logos\*anynumber*" which is where the .js is coming from.

Edited December 7, 2021 by timbo343