blank launcher too
information
about:blank launcher (AKA rainyware launcher) was designed to get around school monitoring software like securly classroom by opening any URL in an iframe on about:blank
i got criminally charged over this btw
includes bookmarks to go to various sites that work with rainyware launcher
most websites really don’t like getting embedded so they have issues or downright don’t work at all
technical description
the monitoring software on our school chromebooks is “securly classroom” bypasses have come and gone over time, one of them being the crash+hang method. but this method was (and still kinda is) unpatchable because it uses an iframe inside the browser’s default blank page which results in a “waiting for device” on the teacher software.
FAQ
can i still use this?
if you have the file for it, you CAN- but that doesn’t mean you should. you could get into trouble for so much as having it in your downloads after the mass effort to get rid of it (made everyone reset their chromebooks).
people were told “you’ll be in big trouble if you download that software again”
so you CAN- but it’s at your own risk and if you get in trouble too bad so sad
but if you go to a different school idgaf do whatever you want
will this let me access blocked sites?
depends, if your teacher blocks it using the securly classroom extension, then yes but if it’s blocked on the firewall or is in the global global block list, then it can’t get around that.
mr kromer blocked spis and this gets around that
will my school be able to see my history?
yes and no, your browser history will show nothing, not even the launcher itself (except the web version) which is good but the school’s firewall CAN very much decrypt HTTPS (only on the chromebooks).
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known issues
logging in doesn’t work on most sites
the server that hosts all our downloads says it’s because of cookies, but the remote dashboard for our minecraft server works fine so it’s really mixed
a lot of sites just downright refuse connection
a lot of sites really don’t like being embedded inside of an iframe and so you get big bailed by cross origin security policy but it works great on the sites that don’t
sometimes clicking buttons in sites closes the tab
this is a setting on securly classroom, i don’t know what it’s supposed to do but it can close rainyware launcher tabs when you interact with it.
only a few of our teachers use it so it works in most
downloads
the officical version is no longer available due to the bookmarks not working and also so people won’t download it and give it to eachother again. if you REALLY need it then use the github repo version.