GSUITE for Education - Chrome Webstore

[Wired_Inside_90]

Hi all,

 

I'm working through locking down our chromebooks and have come across an issue with our chromebooks/webstore.

 

We have Safesearch/education filtering applied from our web filter but if you type a NSFW topic into the web store adult content can appear. For example I typed "Adult" and while you get porn blockers you do get some inappropriate content as well.

 

The google documentation doesn't seem to include anything useful or plain doesn't work.

 

Has anyone had better luck with their chromebooks?

 

any advice greatly received.

[jthompson]

Can you block chrome.google.com/webstore in your filters? I've no idea if that will break the deployment of any extensions you might have mandated in your Chrome policies or not. Ideally, your users shouldn't be able to install things ad-hoc from the webstore anyway.

[Ditto]

What setting do you have for 'access to aps' in the Admin Console -> Apps ->Market place? Ideally, you would be best to only offer a white-listed set of apps. See https://support.google.com/a/answer/6089179?hl=en

[jthompson]

I don't think that that would stop anyone browsing the store, though. It'll only prevent them from installing stuff.

[Wired_Inside_90]

Yeah I've blocked the URL but it does break it so that's not an option. I'm surprised there isn't an age filter like in the iOS app Store.

[Sanchez]

We block the URL via impero not our filters that allows background access for installs but prevents browsing.

[Wired_Inside_90]

Ah thanks I will try that!