My guess would be that few of these machines are used for ordinary web-browsing, or not even online.

That does nothing for what’s recommended.

‘Not Interested’ -> 'Tell us why -> ‘I don’t like the video’ is what works.

They used to get hacked. They still do, but they used to too.

https://massgrave.dev/windows_11_links

Not seeing a filter-list for uBO on their github:

https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies

Built-in:

AdGuard – Cookie Notices

EasyList – Cookie Notices

uBlock filters – Cookie Notices

and you can also add:

“I don’t care about cookies”

superagent

How’s that vs just enabling the built-in lists i uBO?

pi-hole

I would imagine they have a similar setup as here in Norway (who’s also experiencing this issue) where the students own the machine and they aren’t centrally managed, especially the Mac’s

There’s WACUP: https://getwacup.com/

Use winapp2ool to add a comprehensive winapp2ool.ini to Bleachbit

Bulk Crap Uninstaller

Never left, baby! Although ripping from YouTube should be a last resort. And even then, use a proper tool like Yt-dlp.