Lightspeed Systems Avis 

Light speed is insanely slow. If you open a new tab it takes multiple seconds. A new tab should be instant. When I go to Google images, it can take minutes just for a single image to load. When I open YouTube, my AP Physics video was blocked. On Wikipedia, every single image is blocked. It also takes tons of data from you, and does not recognize do not track requests. It even blocked the training site for the automotive services course that I am taking at my school. I cannot believe that a company like this would still be in business.

Ive seen that this extension itself uses ai, as if ai isn't already a big problem, but the concept of this seems invasive but not surprising for a district, but also blocks away just a slither of freedom, were in middle/high school I think we should be able to play games on your computer AFTER school hours since many people cant afford a personal computer. Now I get that districts use this to block inappropriate things but lets be honest, admins usually would block the site before hand

and if it isn't enough, it invades A BUNCH of our privacy, were in our teens and we want to explore sites in our free time and there should be nothing wrong with that, but its annoying even more since it block YOUTUBE AND GOOGLE SLIDES STICKERS?? the YouTube example is poor since district usually blocks all inappropriate videos and some kids just wanna watch some videos while writing, eating etc. And for the Google stickers and pictures don't get me started, it blocks creativity and is the reason why most students are so basic and don't try when adding details to their project

I hate this extension I would rather have go guardian, blocks many basic things which is why we don't let ai take control of things.

Okay so my school hasn't even started yet but here I am furious.

So I am going into middle school next week and I had just got my school issued Chromebook. There is a game I've been dying to play on a computer all summer (as I don't have my own personal computer) and I thought I would be able to play it. But no. This year is different, this year the school thought it would be funny to shove this god awful software down our throats.

Now. To make things clear the website said game is on was blocked last year. BUT at 4 pm every day, all the sites were unblocked and you could do whatever you wanted on your computer (school ended at 3:30 btw). But this year it was blocked all day. I tested this by attempting to go on the website at 8 AT NIGHT and everything was still blocked.

I understand blocking sites that weren't blocked last year such as itch.io or all the knock off fortnight games, cuz those can have very inappropriate and violent content. but you really had to block not only geometry dash, but coolmathgames? it literally has math in the name, it is a global in class gaming website made for kids. like what are we doing people? or should I say ai, because that is all this freeking thing is.

And that brings me too my next point. the faulty ai. I hate a lot of forms ai nowadays, especially in art or in places where peoples jobs are getting replaced, but I have never felt this kind of burning hatred towards it before. See, I was already pissed that it blocked a bunch of pictures of a wholesome character from a very adult game that a play, but I wasn't particularly angry because, well its a very adult game. then I looked up a picture of a character from a show rated TVY7 and all the pictures were still blocked. this went on until I literally looked up cute and wholesome meme and literally every picture was blocked. Now, none of this may sound important, like its just shows and games and random ass shit you don't need for school. but it also blocked more than half of the pictures of several roman gods I looked up. Damn it they even blocked pictures explaining the definition of something.

Before I finish this lengthy review, I would like to inform you what I am going to do to fix this issue and what you should do, because I believe that if enough people get rid of this monetization and voice their concerns, there might be a chance that it will be gone forever.

I am going to have any and all classmates and teachers who hate this software as much as I do sign a petition that removes the extension from the district. Then, I will write an essay to send to the principal or a teacher who can forward it to the head of education for my school district. And if nothing happens within a few weeks or they replay with no. I will find a way to speak face to face with whatever nucklehead put this stupid software into play.

In conclusion. This site sucks and no one should ever use it and it should die and throw up and be killed by a swat team and be eaten alive and- continues rambling.

- A very concerned and angry student

They would not even answer the phone or have a recruiter call me back. I was really interested in a position and I kept trying to reach out and they denied my application when I have a lot of experience regarding the content reviewer role. Did not even give me a chance. Pretty low of a company to do that and I passed the assessments.

remove my educational websites and disallow me from learning

One time I searched up "Nebulae" and all of the images were blocked. Seriously, what's so bad about nebulae? This proves that whatever AI that's behind these blocks is unreliable. Also, on its official Chrome Web Store page, it says it has your SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. They also take your exact coordinates, like why does my school need to know where I went on vacation this summer.

On its official website, Lightspeed Filter admits that the biggest problem is itself. It says that “Proxy bypass now generates 7x more blocked activity than malware across K–12 networks”, which shows that most of its resources for filtering are spent on trying to solve the problem that they themselves created, rather than blocking harmful things such as malware. It’s like an autoimmune disease. Lightspeed then explains how it chooses which sites to block, which isn’t reliable, falsely identifies proxies, and sometimes does so by reading private data. It “Inspects rendered page content and embedded elements (canvas, iframes, third-party assets) to detect bypass activity inside trusted Google domains”. This means that Lightspeed Filter is invading user privacy and going against Google’s promises that “The content you save on Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Vids is private to you, from others, unless you choose to share it.”

I needed to catch up on school work so I went to the teacher slideshow. Normally you would watch a short video and then answer a few questions about it. I went into slideshow to watch the video because it’s embedded from YouTube but when I tried it said “This page has been blocked by Chrome” because it’s Lightspeed blocking YouTube. Lightspeed claims to help students access the resources they need, but instead, they just block it. Schools, why are we still using this software???

If you need information about something, an easy way to find it is by looking it up. You can do this on your chromebook by googling it. There is an automatic AI Overview that shows up but some people like me don’t want to use information from AI in their research, or at least want to fact check it. However, the sites with information and sites that AI used as sources are often blocked by Lightspeed, so it’s impossible to fact check and do your own research. The only way to access information on the topic for students who only have their chromebook for access to the internet is to use AI, which may be incorrect, because all of the sites containing this information are blocked.

Imagine that you want to type something. Boom, it's now permanently logged on the lightspeed servers. Need to type something private and no one else’s business, you're cooked, lightspeed sees it all. Chrome web store says lightspeed can log your keystrokes which is illegal because I wasn't informed by the school. Don't let this company spy on you.

It's so bad that we have a group of over 60 people who hate Lightspeed. My teacher spent around 15 minutes trying to get ONE YouTube video to work that was strictly educational. And there are over 10 different documents with the same common goal: remove Lightspeed from school computers. The admins lose money, the teachers can't use the same resources they have used for years, and the students are being spied on and denied access of their essential learning materials.

Furthermore, Lightspeed is just as, if not more prone to a data breach, like Canvas did. If Lightspeed gets hacked, lots of people's personal information, social security numbers, IP addresses, etc. could get leaked and that would be.. very BAD.

In conclusion, Lightspeed is the bane of my existence, it's causing depression in students, my cat has fleas because of it, it should be sued like IXL did, it should get killed by rising lava, it should get its mace stolen by an invis guy, it should be banished to another dimension, it is more trash than all the trash in the universe, it should get banished to the shadow realm, it should go to sakupen hell, it should get its nether portal broken by a ghast, its worse than the gameplay of map pack levels, brian thomas is unc, it should misplace its obsidian, it should get a lagspike at 99%, it's so dumb it would install virus.exe, it spawns blocked images as fast as a silverfish spawner spawns silverfish, it wet the bed at age 27, lightspeed more like slothspeed, lightspeed more like lights-peed, it is the last piece of moldy bread that nobody wants, it is a dystopian government, it admin abused more times than the amount of stars in the multiverse, it's more strict about what sites students visit than nintendo with modding, it ate a rock-hard burnt steak and still managed to get salmonella, and

most of all...
lightspeed is a poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo sahur 💀

*contents above written by members of my friend's Anti-Lightspeed group

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OVERBLOCKS SO MANY THINGS IT IS SO HECKED UP OMG I HATE IT SO MUCH I HAD AN ELA TEST AND IT BLOCKED THE VIDEO WE NEEDED TO WATCH AND IT BLOCKS PICTURES OF FRICKING STICK FIGURES AND EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD EVEN THE THINGS WE NEED FOR SCHOOL PROJECTS BROO CISCO UMBRELLA IS WAYYYY BETTER I CANNOT BELIEVE WCPSS SPENT A FRICKING 350K ON THIS BROOOO ALSO IT HAS FRICKING ACCESS TO YOUR IP ADRESS AND MOTION SENSOR SOMEONE PLS TELL ME WHY IT NEEDS UR MOTION SENSOR

This is a violation on students privacy even when students are home they are still being watched they block music being played what content you are able to consume even if its kid friendly

Lightspeed blocks almost every single website which makes it harder to find decently enjoyable things to do once I'm done with my work.
One example of a blocked website is "gdbrowser", which is a website that allows you to browse Geometry Dash but not actually play any levels. You can't play any levels, so there's no reason to block it. I tend to use gdbrowser to test Lightspeed bypasses since it loads a handful of resources and there's a lot of page switching involved.

Lightspeed's website claims that it "puts an end to bypass prevention," but I've spent a few days decompiling its code and they do the absolute bare minimum for bypass prevention (check if the URL contains data: and one or more of the following: extprint3r or Blobby-Boi, as well as removing any bookmarks/tabs that point to javascript: or specific Lightspeed extension URLs). These bypass prevention checks can simply be circumvented by adding, modifying, or deleting an extra line or two of code from your bypass website. Also, the filter is heavily prone to slowdowns and hangs, since its worker code has to manually do the filtering itself (via the webRequest API).

It only seems that Lightspeed is really secure because ChromeOS carries the security for Lightspeed.

Despite ChromeOS's somewhat decent security, I've already found 2 methods to disable Lightspeed: one that fully hard-disables Classroom and Alert, and one that fully disables the filter. I also plan on reviving LightSPED Killer Agent for more newer ChromeOS devices.

The fact that I even have to spend days investigating a way to bypass the filter just to access basic websites should tell you something about Lightspeed (and realistically every other filtering extension).

They literally said on one of their websites (of which is blocked because they do not want people finding workarounds) that malware isn't the issue, its kids bypassing the filter. That's like saying "The virus about to destroy your entire organisation isn't the problem, a bored 14 year old is." Like come on.

it is borderline malware it doesn't just install on the chromebook for school but all chrome apps if you sign in to the account that has the lightspeed extension it forse installed on your own device like the tracker on it and when I tried force deleting it on my own laptop and it gives the error "not admin" when I am the admin I had to format my whole laptop and it was given web cam access at my own home this is horrible

This is nothing more than spyware whitewashed and renamed under the cover of a filter. Like NO filter needs teachers to CONSTANTLY look at your screen, which is already a breach of privacy. Not to mention, people have seen sites getting blocked for "being a distraction", but that "distraction" is sometimes school appropriate or even contributes to student learning.

i was in class on my computer on Chess.com and the teacher calls my name and says "so you winning" that might have been the fastest time i closed a tab. Two weeks after i had the Dino game (online) open from another day, i was playing chess and a notification appeared saying "{teachers name} has closed one of your tabs" but the chess was still there i looked at my recent tab and there it was the dino game closed 45 seconds ago.

This is a terrible app. It blocks all the good websites and blocked me for typing "uwu" into Google and when an unblocked website comes up it gets blocked within 3 days. Dont use this app ever.

I’m a 9th grader, and my county literally just updated to the newest version of Lightspeed. It is the most annoying thing ever. Every time someone in my class finds a new proxy or a "unblocked" site to actually have some freedom, Lightspeed blocks it within like a day.

It’s like the software is actually smart and stays ahead of us. We used to use Google Sites or certain mirrors to get around the filters, but now it’s like it detects the "behavior" of the site and shuts it down before the page even loads. It’s super frustrating because it doesn't just block the fun stuff—it blocks actual research sites and images I need for projects. It feels like we're being treated like little kids. If you’re a student, you already know the struggle. This filter is way too overpowered.

This company is so evil wdym I can't view random images that are harmless I can't even go to some educational websites because there catagorised as games like blud they arn't even gamessss. I also have no privacy to ts is so bad would definintely not recommend.

Dude this thing sucks. Literally. This is pure shit. I can't even view images without seeing this horrible blocked placeholder svg. Their customer service is also horrible, as it is only an AI chatbot, and refuses to contact me with a real human. Not to say, they block legitimate sites. To any sysadmin looking to get this, don't. It's a horrible waste of money, and I hope these scummy owners fix their cesspool of a "product".

IT IS SO STUPID AND EVILI GET NO PRIVACY AND IT IS SO STUPID JUST REMOVE IT

Lightspeed is actually terrible. I have personally viewed the source code , and let me tell you, it is EVIL. Here is a comprehensive list:
Google email, literally your ip address, your screen, tab names, browsing history, current tab url, wifi network name, search queries, files downloaded, time spent on sites, network configuration (which might include your password), bookmarks, PLAIN TEXT data being sent, and probably more.

they see everything on your school device
you have no privacy
they somehow fail to block unsafe things
they block educational youtube videos and websites
they can LIMIT TABS WHATS THE POINT IN LIMITING TABS ITS NOT GONNA STOP ANYONE FROM PLAYING COOKIE CLICKER
if your gonna block stuff and restrict things on school computers then do it right