Smoothwall Reviews 452

TrustScore 1 out of 5

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Most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many people found the website and app to be extremely restrictive, blocking even basic and educational content, which significantly hindered their ability to complete schoolwork and research. Customers frequently reported issues with the product's inconsistency, noting that it would block innocuous searches while sometimes allowing access to inappropriate content. The user experience was widely criticized for being slow, glitchy, and frustrating, with pages taking a long time to load or not loading at all. Some people also felt that the social media filtering was overly strict, preventing access to platforms and content that were necessary for their studies or personal interests. Reviewers expressed significant dissatisfaction with the product's overall functionality, describing it as a hindrance rather than a helpful tool.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

blocks people for the stupidest reasons even our old blocker wasn't this strict! It blocked my friend for searching for a Minecraft burger yet it lets him see pictures of a Minecraft creeper. Which do... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

literally blocked stuff for "education content" on everyones soul it said that man and it blocked all the resources i need for my course work like brianmac and other stuff. so random and useless. furt... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Although I hate Smoothwall for blocking alot of stuff, including pointless stuff, thats not why I’m writing this review because I want it to be unbiased. My issue is that it is incredibly dodgy. It ta... See more


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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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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

this skibidi gyatt killed my friend

this skibidi gyatt killed my friend

Smoothwall has been a huge disappointment. The setup process is overly complicated and the performance is mediocre at best. It blocks too many harmless websites, making it difficult to get any work done. The support is practically non-existent, leaving you to figure out problems on your own. Overall, it’s more of a hindrance than a help.

September 24, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

a roast

SMOOTH WALL YOU ARE UGLY AS H*LL OH MY GOD DOSE THIS ANSWER MY YOU,ER A DUMB A** YOU BLOCK GAME SITES I BLOCK GAME SITES THATS WHY KIDS SUFFER SO EVIL NO NO NO NO WHAT THE H*LL IT WRONG WITH YOU DELETE THIS BLOCKER NOW [edit] for anybody out there who ever writes a 5 star review LET ME TELL YOU THIS PLS GO F$$$$ YOURSELF AND FOR ALL OF THE TEACHERS WHO WRITE THOSE GOD D*MN 5 STAR REVIEWS PLS GO TO H*LL AND NEVER COME BACK THANK YOU :)

September 4, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

smooth wall makes my friends depressed

Smooth wall is a horrible website that should not be allowed and I'm not just saying this because I'm a random kid who wants to play video games but no smooth wall is just awful and full of sad single 30 year old men who just want children to suffer i.e smooth wall block useful websites and normal websites for no reason. this has made it virtually impossible to do school work and puts a lot more stress on pupils and this has made a lot of my friends depressed and unhappy with life so I hope smooth wall are happy with making poor young children depressed

September 2, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Smoothwall restricts too much things.

I go to a school that has Smoothwall installed. Smoothwall blocks some content that shouldn't be blocked, such as Youtube. It FORCES Restricted Mode on, and removes all core features of Youtube (comments, recommended videos, hell maybe even the description). Then they block Steam, Discord, Epic Games which I can see why but here's the thing. Smoothwall is easy to bypass: Turn the internet off, launch Edge/Chrome/whatever and turn it back on. Then for example type in roblox.com or discord.com and if it isn't blocked, wait a couple of seconds. If the page refreshes and it is blocked, try again. If it isn't blocked, then you now have access to the internet again. Atleast I think so. Anyway to finish this review this extension is a piece of crap and should not be installed.

July 10, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Smoothwall more like smoothbrain

Smoothwall more like smoothbrain my friend had cancer his last wish was to look at a Xbox 360 but smoothbrain blocked it I only had my school iPad and it was only me that was there and he dead because of smoothbrain 😭😭😭😭😭

September 5, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Not the Dino game!!!!!

Smoothwall, everyone hates u ok so go and delete yourself. One day I was at school and we had free time . There was no Internet and the dinosaur game popped up(Dino has to jump over cactuses).But NOOOOO smoothwall blocked it and me,my friends and the staff were furious.I HATE U!!!!!!!!

June 30, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

No one likes YOU smoothwall.

smoothwall is a vile ugly disgusting gross corona virus. DOODY HEAD extension. the creators of smoothwall obviously LOVE ruining childerens child hood. smoothwal is so dirty and poopy, my WEE is cleaner than this website. smoothwall creators can DRINK MY WEE.

June 28, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The Crappiest thing in History

"Smooth" wall more like "Fuckall" wall, if you want a nice way to do nothing but everlasting boredom, then get it, this has caused mental distress in my family. Its just so bad and pointless. Greatest thing that has come to my life was when I finally got rid of it, even tho it really doesn't want you to, its program is very incessant that I shouldn't get rid of it, I feel bad for the people who made the company, cause they had a good concept but ended up pushing out this crap. When I had this crappy thing implemented into my PC, it wouldn't even let me access websites I needed for work/or school.
I have a story of a mate, who lost his job because he couldn't access a website because of Smooth wall.
I wouldn't recommend this if my life depended on it.
If you get this then you should wish you online freedom goodbye.

June 21, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Delete Smoothwall Immediatly

We accidentally released a virus on to this application so we kindly regard everyone to delete smoothwall until we remove it. We are extremely sorry for this inconvenience and we are trying to remove the virus as quick as we can.

June 18, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

smoothwall failing an a level and suicide

I watched in vain as my friend recieved the blue screen of smoothwall causing him to fail his A level in modern social media as the search term poo poo ahh quandale dingle bingleton skibidi toilet kai cenat rizzing up livvy dunn before he jumped off a cliff. I remeber watching on as i yelled his name, desperate for him to come back.

June 12, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Die Smoothwall

This extension is just summed up by the High quality reviews below 👇. Trust me the reviews are so true

Someone I used (used underlined) to know called Vladimir Pupin and his family depended on accessing a online game where you win actual money for doing well, and when the money grabbers at Smoothwall decided to implement their useless piece of s*** on our school him and his family had to go to work in the mines because their only source of income was gone. I never saw them again and heard they died in a mining accident where other smoothwall victims were put.
Thanks smoothwall for this kind move to our lives, we thank you

June 12, 2024
Unprompted review

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