Are chrome://flags and other internal Chrome pages blocked on managed devices?

Chrome's internal pages expose experimental features, network diagnostics and developer tools. Curious students find them fast, because search results and forums mention them as tricks. They are not harmful in themselves, but they are a way to change browser behaviour outside the rules.

Skie adds these addresses to Chrome's blocked URL list through policy. Typing chrome://flags, chrome://net-internals or chrome://inspect shows a blocked message, and view-source and javascript: addresses do not run. The block is enforced by the device owner, so the user cannot edit the list.

It is part of a larger set. Developer options and adb are blocked at the Android level, safe mode is blocked, and installing unknown apps is off. Taken together, the browser and the system are closed in the same way, and there is no inside route that skips a rule.

For teachers who use view-source to teach web basics, this will be a limitation. Suggest a lab computer for that lesson, or ask the Skie team about a dedicated group. Do not turn the rule off for a whole school on one request.

The rule shows in the effective policy for the group. If a student claims to have reached a flags page, check the device's last policy version and compliance score, and report it so the team can look into it and fix it for all devices through an update.