Shouldn't this be a bug report on google forms?
Chromium: Permit blocking of view-source: with URLBlocklist
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#32Wouldn’t this easily be circumvented by creating a website that shows you the source of any other website?
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#33My son has now done many months of homeschooling during Sydney's lockdown via Google Classroom and this feature request is completely unsurprising as the product is a complete joke.
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#34For context, this is is not allowing websites to prevent View Source for all users. Rather it is a setting that administrators can set on Google Chrome installations within their company/school/etc. That said, I highly doubt that Google would take this feature request seriously if this were not associated with another Google property. For example, I can't imagine that if Typeform users opened a similar bug ticket tha…
I don't think your theory fits the facts... The bug is from 2018, and was fixed three years later. So it doesn't seem like there was any kind of special prioritization going on here. It was also fixed by a person working at Microsoft, not by somebody at Google.
I think the point that was if anyone but Google wanted this, it'd get laughed all the way to WONTFIX.
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#35Wouldn’t this easily be circumvented by creating a website that shows you the source of any other website?
This is hilarious, though it would likely only show you the public version of a page, so a basic login feature would "protect" against that. Unless people are willing to give their credentials to such a website, then I suppose it might become an arms race of sorts.
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#36Why can’t these schools make simple electron apps with these things disabled? I thought these are solved problems instead of landing duds in Chrome!
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is also the type of thing that plants the seed of interest for a career or hobby of computing, which is another reason it's stupid. Reward people's curiousity instead of punishing it, especially in a schooling situation!
Students will not get by in life by viewing the source code when confronted with any problem.
Students will not learn to experiment with technology if they are blocked on every attempt.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is also the type of thing that plants the seed of interest for a career or hobby of computing, which is another reason it's stupid. Reward people's curiousity instead of punishing it, especially in a schooling situation!
Students will not get by in life by viewing the source code when confronted with any problem.
But perhaps they will get by in life by finding clever solutions that circumvent common expectations through curiosity and familiarity with technology.
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#39> With Schools using Google Forms as a testing platform, students are able to use this shortcut to search through the source of the page, and determine the correct answers. So they're serving the answers with the questions, and get annoyed when the students figure this out. What a lark. How about using a system which doesn't do that?
Google Forms lets you set an answer key with correct answers which are not exposed client-side in the responder view[1]. Teachers complaining that students can see "answers" are using a different feature[2].
Re: Chromium: Permit blocking of view-source: with URLBlocklist
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is also the type of thing that plants the seed of interest for a career or hobby of computing, which is another reason it's stupid. Reward people's curiousity instead of punishing it, especially in a schooling situation!
I got a crash course in running proxy servers and various VPNs when I was in school, due to the school blocking stuff. I don't recall what sites I was even trying to get to (pre-facebook) nor do I remember really caring about them, but just working around the blocks was particularly fun.
I had a similar experience, but in my case it was less that the school was blocking particular sites I wanted to visit, and more that there was a single very-slow proxy server for the entire state's educational system. So I ssh tunneled to my home instead.