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> Geez, people must be playing a lot for Google Classrooms given the amount of anger on that thread.

I'd say that people are exhausted by having to do their own jobs and simultaneously help their kids stay focussed and concentrated on their learning, while the needed tools (provided for 'free' by Google) include a totally unnecessary and unrelated requirement to enable distractions, trivial entertainment and advertising.



I've got YouTube plus at least, it helps somewhat to filter out some rather toxic advertising.

Whoever started pushing WorkSafe ads into this platform, I do not wish well for. It's the stuff of true nightmares, the sum of their worst fears, for children to see.

Edit: Eg this one. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ffC9FfMYpW4




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