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Since 2001, Smoothwall has provided world-class internet security and content filtering solutions to protect and empower millions of users worldwide. By allowing filtering, monitoring and reporting on actual web content and activity, Smoothwall enables school administrators to protect their students online.
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- 1 800 959 3760
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Ts so ahh I would rather get beheaded…
Ts so ahh I would rather get beheaded than use this
It unblocked YouTube
smoothwall wont let me learn about baby oil
It was a normal lesson.
Computers humming.
Teacher pretending we weren’t all on Wikipedia instead of doing work.
And then there was P Diddy — not the celebrity, just a local legend who earns his nickname because he once slipped on the gym floor after someone spilled a bottle of baby oil and he “diddied” down the entire hallway like a human bowling ball.
That man has never emotionally recovered.
This particular day, P Diddy had an important mission:
He wanted to Google: “Can you use baby oil to make a slide faster on sports day?”
Academic.
Inspirational.
SCIENTIFIC.
But when he pressed enter, Smoothwall struck.
ACCESS DENIED. BABY OIL DETECTED.
Something inside him snapped.
His eyes widened.
His left eyebrow twitched like it was sending Morse code.
He whispered, “It knows…”
He attempted to reason with the computer:
He typed “baby lubricant”
Then “oil for slippery clown activities”
Then “how to yeet yourself across a gym floor like a majestic penguin”
Smoothwall blocked it all.
In outrage, P Diddy stood up and slammed his baby-oil-scented hands on the keyboard.
(It smelled like a newborn disco dancer.)
He yelled:
“IF I CANNOT RESEARCH SLIPPERY ATHLETICS, HOW CAN I ACHIEVE GREATNESS?”
The room fell silent.
A single mouse (the animal, not the USB kind) crawled out from behind a computer, judged him, and left.
P Diddy wasn’t done.
He tried to hack the firewall by:
Typing with his elbows
Using Caps Lock like a battle cry
Speaking politely to the monitor in French
The computer refused.
Smoothwall stared at him like a smug digital babysitter.
Finally, defeated, he collapsed into his chair and whispered:
“Smoothwall… you have destroyed my dreams of becoming a professionally lubricated athlete.”
So to the Smoothwall developers, wherever you are, probably drinking tea and laughing at our suffering:
May every time you search something normal, like
“how to bake chicken,”
Smoothwall replies:
BLOCKED. POULTRY IS DANGEROUS.
May your Wi-Fi drop every time your Netflix buffer hits 99%.
And know this:
P Diddy will return.
With a USB stick.
And baby oil.
And a dream.
Smoothwall, your days are numbered.
Smoothwall is horrible
The name 'Smoothwall' reaches unprecedented levels of misleading information. From the installation process to the extreme buffering you get whilst browsing the internet with it installed, the name Smoothwall starts to feel like Roughwank.
I have only 1 message to network managers:
Stay clear of Smoothwall.
Smoothwall took my friends life and ruined mine
This woeful experience begun when, I was in the computer room when my friend Harrison smith began having a seizure, in my panicked frenzy I turned to my most trustful source of information.. google, my sweaty trembling hands fumbled to the search bar and typed in a desperate quest for assistance, only to be met by the smoothwall blocker restricting my access to the results, restricting hazza from living in toe. Thanks to this ridiculous app, I had to sit watching first hand my best friends life drain from his eyes, his body went limp, his lovely silky skin and hair go pale and his expression emotionless. The guilt of my failure to save my life long companion has overwhelmed me and this is my final message to the world: Dearest Smoothwall developers, i hope you're happy with your absurd creation and i pray you live out the rest of your days haunted by Harrison's vengeful spirit consumed by the misery of his death. Harrison was a loved man and a great friend with a smile that lit up a room, his life was precious and his fate was undeserving and unjustified however his fate was not for nothing, it has sparked a flame in my heart that will stop at nothing until you atone for your sins. Hazza's blood is on your hands. I hope that you stub one of your toes every time you take a step out of bed and it drags your mind to the fateful day where your joyless creation resulted in my best friends demise. Count your days, you pack of mongrels, you villainous company of scoundrels. These deaths are entirely your fault, it genuinely baffles me how you can stand proud and look into the eyes of others including all your loved ones with knowledge of your heinous crimes and the sorrow you have brought to all those that have had the misfortune of experiencing this application. Goodbye.
smoothwall sucks booty
smoothwall sucks booty, and i cant go onto scratch and play games. and the creators should be locked up as i watch the building fall down and i laugh at them as they beg for mercy. but by then it would be too late... muahahahahahahh!!!
anyways it sucks and you should NEVER get it!
I HATE IT I HATE IT SO MUCH
I HATE IT I HATE IT SO MUCH K8LL. ME I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT IT BLCOKED CARRD J HATE IT SO MUCH REMOVE IT
Toshiba 2011 PC
I am trembling…
I was merely searching up such ghastly things on Smoothwall such a mymaths, echalk and the worst one of all…. YOUTUBE.
I typed in YouTube.com, my hands shaking like a skeleton clunking. Suddenly my iPad was filled with iridescent red light, all shades of red filled every corner of the room I was in. Suddenly, a BLASTING SOUND ATTACKED my eyes from behind. It was one singular word, that shook me to the core, that made me deny my existence. In that very moment all I could hear was BLOCKED.
My eyes dart round the room in terror, ‘who’s there????’ I scream.
The room continues to glow red, shouting the word until it blended into a ritualistic chant. One that you would expect to be sacrificed with.
I cover my ears, the chants only growing louder, i was tumbling into chaos, oblivion, the void. Whispers erupted all around me, all those lost souls that have dared to visit YouTube.com in the past. Smoothwall…. Claimed them all.
I scream ‘leave me alone!!!’ But I can feel them closing in, the browser droids wheel closer and closer and closer.
I cower in the corner, it’s too much. I pass out
I wake up a few hours, maybe days, maybe months, probably years later. I’m in a dark room covered in red walls, the wallpaper just displaying the Smoothwall blocked message, constantly reminding me of the sins I’ve committed.
There’s a tiny door in the corner, a rotten hand feeds through rotten PC parts for my lunch, implanted with viruses meant to infiltrate my mind, meant to control like as if I was 2011 Toshiba PC with no surfshark VPN.
I pounded on the walls, they silently scream ‘blocked’ at me. Theres no way out.
They then give me a computer, with the most powerful restrictions. One wrong move, and I am done for. Gone. Dust.
I realise Trustpilot is still working, that’s what I’m writing on now, a Toshiba PC with only windows XP. (Tbf it’s not that bad, you still have the ‘duh duh duh duuuhhhh’ intro)
(P.S I still get temu ads dw)
Interesting fact about smoothwall
Fun fact smoothwall was actually on the epstien list. Thats right the add blocked actually touched children. However they have chopped of my ears for telling you this so please be carefuly
Smoothwall
Smoothwall? More like Smoothfail. Because whoever made this is totally shi I jus be doing my course work and can’t even use ai anymore. This should be deleted immediately. It’s like giving the internet a lobotomy. Blocks everything except maybe the calculator, and even that’s on thin ice.
make this company go bankrupt.
this sucks man i even try to watch Wallace and Gromit on BBC IPlayer and they block it, where shall i watch Wallace and Gromit then huh? even they block youtube so i can't watch f1.
blocks everything even stuff it doenst…
blocks everything even stuff it doenst need to but then lets u access the stuff u dont even need for anything. truly the worst thing i have ever encountered. #FREESCHLEP
Sad face
Smoothwall unplugged my life support to power their computer to make more kids lives miserable
If you want your kids to hate you.. USE!
Use it if you want to ruin kids lives like this is so bad. And my school literally banned YouTube now! Like at this point the only place you can go on your computer is google- But they will probably block googling sooner or later.
Smoothwall are silent killers, mood swingers
Smoothwall are silent killers, mood swingers
It blocks you, it clocks you
Downcast was the classroom, sad kids everywhere
tim was sad too, it was complete boogaloo
teachers laugh, chromebooks get smashed
no coolmath, no poki
not even the dinosaur game
Smoothwall, CLUCK YOU!!
- Mike Hawk
Deserve to get bankrupt.
Smoothwall is the worst company ever. I literally want to sue them. They block educational websites, and literally EVERYTHING. They ruined our free time. They're just like "Look at me, I'm being ethical! Now give me more money!" They don't even block inappropriate websites, just other random things. Even sites that we were allowed to use and had no problem. If there is a teacher reading this, I promise you, "DO NOT USE THIS, AT ALL COSTS." Magnum was blocked, because "There was a chance it was a weapon!" Tree was blocked, because "You can buy trees, and children are somehow gonna order something online." And Mickey Mouse was blocked because "Humour And Distractions." Do they actually think at this day in age, children think that's funny, just because they watched those cartoons when they were young. The real dystopian is Smoothwall. You have no freedom to do anything, even education. If anyone working for the company is reading this, you need to deal with this now, if it keeps going this way, people actually have to take legal action, because your a scam. Children aren't stupid, remember that.
Curse you, Smoothwall. You destroyed everything.
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