Some probably will. 99% of them don't even know what "Chromium" is.

This doesn't have to be perfect.

Right now, they don't know. They're going to learn very quickly when they want to use some website and they can't.

We agree it doesn't need to be 100% perfect. But it needs to be at least, like, 60% perfect, right? And unless you make it at least a bit hard to bypass, it will stop virtually no one.

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cogman10 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Some undoubtedly will.

Installing a new browser is already a bit hard for most people. I think you are a little skewed in your thinking being online on HN.

You also aren't thinking about age. Certainly 16 and 18 year old probably can get a new browser installed. But a 14 year old? 12 year old? 10 year old? That barrier is a lot higher the younger a kid is.

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Wowfunhappy 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I just finished my second year as a fifth grade teacher, so I have a lot of experience with ten year olds. I am confident a majority of my students would be able to install an alternative web browser if they needed to, and a majority of the remainder would ask a friend to do it.

To give you an example of the workarounds kids will find: Youtube was blocked on school laptops, so the kids all started embedding Youtube videos inside of Google Sheets in order to watch stuff. This isn't, like, something a few savvy kids did, it was a widespread and common practice.

	▲	kbelder 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		And, in my opinion, a healthy thing for the kids to learn and do.

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drnick1 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Lol. I started building computers, installing operating systems and tinkering with Linux between ages 10-12. I also started watching porn not long after that, and guess what, I still became a more or less normal adult. There is absolutely no need to "protect the children."