Smoothwall Reviews 451

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

Everything gets blocked! Pointless!

Everything gets blocked! I am surprised that Trustpilot didn't get blocked. I search up the letter "e" and I get blocked for Category Allowed! I search up some pronunciation for a German task I am having difficulty with and I get blocked! Smoothwall is terrible, and with it, there is basically no point of doing anything!

March 25, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Smoothwall is the greatest thing to…

Smoothwall is the greatest thing to happen to humanity since the discovery of fire. It was only when smoothwall was invented that humans as a species ever surpassed the discovery of fire, that allowed the continuation of the species itself mind you. I was a smoothwall fan from day one ever since my father Archibald Quantavius Smoothwall invented the app in 1607. since the day I was born and until the day I die I will be a smoothwall glazer. if smoothwall have 1000000 fans I am one of them, if smoothwall have 1000 fans I am one of them. if smoothwall have 10 fans I am one of them, if smoothwall has 1 fan I am that fan, if smoothwall have 0 fans I am dead. if smoothwall is ever removed from the internet I will deploy my internet destruction virus destroying all world wide web connections as there will be no point in using the internet after that point. thank you smoothwall for being there when I had no others. I will be a fan of smoothwall for all of eternity. with that said I will have to give smoothwal a 1 star review as it stole 5 dollars from me in 2002

September 11, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolute rubbish.

Smoothwall is the slowest, most useless browser I have ever had the misfortune of using. Will take about an hour to load a page (if it even does in the first place, considering almost every site I try and click on for my schoolwork it deems it a ‘blog,’ and therefore completely inappropriate, apparently!) Also, God forbid I try and open Youtube, which will crash my entire device after about 2 videos. Absolutely useless, horrid to try and work with. In short, makes me want to start ripping my hair out every time I’m forced to open this stupid app.

March 15, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Made me crash out in class

I was on a computer in a lesson [because I had to] and I was trying to get a Chrome extension called 'Dark Reader', I was trying to go to the Chrome extension and guess what? IT DIDN'T LET ME DOWNLOAD IT, we were doing a reading lesson on the computer and dark mode helps me read, and I couldn't download it. Before I was doing the reading lesson, I tried to get Cookie Clicker as a shortcut on my computer and it didn't work

March 13, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

One day

One day, wanting to play chess, I went on the most inappropriate website ever. Chess.com. Knees knocking, I typed the website into my search bar, and pressed enter. At that moment, my stomach dropped through the floor like a boulder falling off a cliff. A single red bar with the writing 'smoothwall' over it announced I had tried to access a video game, an educational game and chess, the three most vile things in the universe. Suddenly, my front door blasted off its hinges and I heard the electrical hum of a stunning machine. There is no time left, I thought. Then, I felt a stab of pain, and then I plunged into oblivion.
I awoke in a frigid bunker with ivory-white walls. A board of metal was what I lay on. Entangled in a straight-jacket, I could not move as an unearthly entered.
He was a bag of bones with rotten skin and hollow eyes. His teeth were yellowed and rotten and were spiked, like a cat's canines. His breath reeked of human misery.
"Hello, you rotten human, I am Smoothwall."
I screamed profanities at him, using a few French ones for good measure.
"SILENCE!" he yelled, using his unearthly magic to still my jaw.
He told me all about how awful I had been on the internet, and that I would be encased in here for the rest of my life if I do not write a five star review. Also, he would harm me every day if I did not do so. THen he left.
SO NOW HERES YOUR FIVE STAR REVIEW HAPPY NOW GET ME OUT OF HERE PLEASE HELP OH MY GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

March 11, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Soyboy smoothwall PMO

I cant even google anything, i type in a skibidi question and this beta site blocks me from my gyatt. What the sigma! -999999999999999999999999999 aura, i cant watch my new skibidi toilet episodes in my rizz class, and i will do devious things to john smoothwall. Kai Cenat does not enjoy, no toilet rizz. I cant pop out at one in the morning to hawk tuah and spit on that thang. Ts PMO Baby gronk and the rizzler.

March 6, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

ABSOLUTE BOOTYHOLE

It was ABSOLUTE TRASH I tried looking up educational games AND IT WAS BLOCKED I tried looking up fun and productive things to do on a school computer AND IT WAS BLOOOOOOOOCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

March 3, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

i hate smoothwall

Smoothwall is -10000000000000000000 aura and has fanum tax L Ohio rizz. you should delete the so unsigma software or else it will hack ur neuralink and play rick rolls for your whole life then it will start yapping on about Pulchritudinous flowers

February 24, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

their af purpose

Our purpose

Smoothwall exists to help keep children safe and thriving in their digital lives. We do it by supporting and empowering them, and those who care for them - in school, at home and everywhere in between.

your definalty doing fa well makeing kids scream their heads of minus infanate rizz die in the name of thhe rizz lords

February 23, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

it suuuuuuuuuucccccckkkkkkkks

it suuuuuuuuuucccccckkkkkkkks. it actually blocked something for wait for it... EDUCATIONAL CONTENT.
yeah I get reddit and inapropriate content but it's just awful dont make your school get it

February 13, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

me sad :(

it just blocks everything :( not even something that schools should use as the most random things are blocked. Get rid of this ASAP!!!

February 12, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

stupid ahh smoothwall

this is insanely dogwater

so this goofy poofy crusty musty ahh no rizz charisma or gooning levels whoever made this has caused 948387934569 orpanages to be burnt down and 23749879849384 children to be killed i am now in a mental hospital

February 11, 2025
Unprompted review

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