This is the current gold standard. Students create a blank Google Site (allowed because Google Workspace is essential). Using custom HTML embedding, they inject a proxy applet—essentially a web page that fetches other web pages. To Securly, the student is just on sites.google.com . To the student, they are playing Krunker.io in a tiny 800x600 window.
For the student, however, it feels like Orwell’s 1984 meets a slow Thursday afternoon. Try to search for "How to build a rocket" for a science project? Allowed. Try to search for "How to fix a typo in a Discord message"? Blocked: Category: Social Media. Try to search for "Tetris"? Blocked: Category: Games. Try to search for "How to unblock Securly"? Blocked: Category: Proxy Avoidance. unblock securly
Securly operates on a "block-first" philosophy. Instead of teaching students how to navigate distractions, schools build higher walls. When a student needs to research a controversial topic—say, the history of hacking, or the details of a political protest—Securly often throws up a red "Blocked: Violence" page. When a student wants to access a coding forum like Stack Overflow, the "Chat" category sometimes blocks it accidentally. This is the current gold standard
Commercial VPNs like NordVPN or ExpressVPN are the obvious solution. However, Securly’s SSL decryption often blocks the handshake required for VPN protocols. Students have shifted to "Stealth VPNs" or Shadowsocks proxies that disguise VPN traffic as ordinary HTTPS web browsing. IT admins counter by blocking known IP ranges of these proxy services by 9:00 AM Monday morning. To Securly, the student is just on sites