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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Dec 2017
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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ForceYouTubeSafetyMode not consistently following expected behavior

Reported by stepheng...@amplifiedit.com, Mar 18 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 7647.84.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. in an Unmananaged Chrome browser, goto youtube.com and sign in using a managed user with ForceYouTubeSafetyMode = true (Cloud Policy) - observe Restricted Mode setting @ bottom of page (off)
2. Login to ChromeBrowser using the same account - observe Restriced Mode setting @ bottom of page (off - expected on)
3. Clear the browser's Cache, and observe Restricted Mode Setting (on)
4. Sign back into YouTube - observe Restriced Mode setting (off - expected on)

What is the expected behavior?
Whenever the Cloud Policy is present, it should override the previous setting.

What went wrong?
In steps 2 and 4, when a ChromeProfile policy should be forcing Restricted Mode, somewhere they are pulling the previous setting which is by default Off.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 48.0.2564.116  Channel: stable
OS Version: 7647.84.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 20.0 r0
 
Cc: pucchakayala@chromium.org

Comment 2 by emaxx@chromium.org, Mar 29 2016

Cc: saswat@chromium.org emaxx@chromium.org dskaram@chromium.org
Owner: treib@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
Summary: ForceYouTubeSafetyMode not consistently following expected behavior (was: ForceYouTubeForceSafetyMode not consistently following expected behavior)
Marc, could you please take a look?
Feel free to assign the bug back to me if you are not the right owner for this.


And, I guess, the ForceGoogleSafeSearch policy may also have the same issue.
My testing on SafeSearch was that it was working as intended.  It appends a
query on the URL which forces the state of SS to on. There is no such query
within Youtube appended to the URL, from an End User PoV.
Cc: treib@chromium.org

Comment 5 by treib@chromium.org, Mar 29 2016

Cc: atwilson@chromium.org
The YouTube policy uses an HTTP header rather than a URL param, so it's not easily visible to the user. But if the SafeSearch policy works, then I'm confident that the YouTube one works too.

From the description, it looks to me like YouTube doesn't use the header if you're signed in to YouTube. Could you try this again, but in step 3, instead of clearing the cache, just sign out of YouTube?

Comment 6 by treib@chromium.org, Apr 13 2016

Labels: Needs-Feedback
Here's another report of the same (or along the same vein):
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103198181016995207918/posts/f43MSTBJHnU

See the paragraph of "The teacher found a work around..."

I will attempt to reproduce without clearing cache, but even the clearing of the cache shouldn't break the process, and if it does, should be addressed.

Comment 8 by treib@chromium.org, Apr 19 2016

My theory is that clearing the cache is not actually related, but it's rather signing in/out of YouTube that makes a difference.
Either way, agreed, this should be addressed. I'm just trying to narrow down the cause.
Thanks for your help in tracking this down!

Comment 9 by saswat@chromium.org, Nov 10 2016

Cc: -saswat@chromium.org

Comment 10 by treib@chromium.org, Nov 15 2017

Owner: ----
Status: Available (was: Assigned)

Comment 11 by dskaram@google.com, Nov 17 2017

Cc: -dskaram@chromium.org

Comment 12 by emaxx@chromium.org, Dec 15 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Available)
The ForceYouTubeSafetyMode policy has been deprecated in favor of the ForceYouTubeRestrict policy.
Please reopen the bug or file a new one if the new policy suffers from a similar issue.

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