Yes. My university was using Fortigate back in the day and it had 3 behaviours
-Allow with no mitm (trusted sites)
-Block with no way around it(all residental IPs, pornsites)
-Allow but mitm the connection. The browser would present the classic ERR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER warning that most people would ignore. I couldn't figure out what criteria decided that a certain site needs the mitm treatment.
My theory is that it was installed to curb filesharing and then it snowballed into generic blocking of various things on the university network.
>intellectual freedom to explore and tinker you'd want to flourish at a university.
Ah that sounds sweet. Reminds me of the anecdotes I read from the pioneer age of computing that people tell here sometimes. Well, the place I studied at was nothing like that. >_>
-Allow with no mitm (trusted sites)
-Block with no way around it(all residental IPs, pornsites)
-Allow but mitm the connection. The browser would present the classic ERR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER warning that most people would ignore. I couldn't figure out what criteria decided that a certain site needs the mitm treatment.