This reminds me of how I used to get around the filter in high school (early 00s). This was the early days of the internet, so there were classes where they blocked the entire internet because it was a distraction.
I found out that (I'm sure this is a known exploit at this point, but at the time it felt awesome figuring it out) if I went into Microsoft Word (or maybe Works?), went to "help" on the menu bar, and clicked on "About Microsoft Works" it took you to an instance of Internet Explorer that you could then use to visit any website you like.
I had a really cool teacher for those classes though, and I'm pretty sure he was amused (and maybe even proud) when he saw high schoolers in 2001 or whatever, finding clever ways around restrictions set up by the school. We may not have been doing what he had explicitly asked us for, but clearly we were learning something.
I found out that (I'm sure this is a known exploit at this point, but at the time it felt awesome figuring it out) if I went into Microsoft Word (or maybe Works?), went to "help" on the menu bar, and clicked on "About Microsoft Works" it took you to an instance of Internet Explorer that you could then use to visit any website you like.
I had a really cool teacher for those classes though, and I'm pretty sure he was amused (and maybe even proud) when he saw high schoolers in 2001 or whatever, finding clever ways around restrictions set up by the school. We may not have been doing what he had explicitly asked us for, but clearly we were learning something.