SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 -- School Wi-Fi networks have blocked gaming sites for the better part of two decades. Students have spent the better part of two decades routing around them. In 2026, one phrase has become shorthand for both the frustration and the workaround: Unbanned G+.

The term does not refer to a single website, product, or company. It functions as a collective label, part search query and part community signal, for a category of browser-based gaming portals that sidestep institutional firewall restrictions by hosting lightweight HTML5 games on platforms that school network administrators already trust. Google has no official connection to any of it.

The mechanics behind these platforms are less complicated than the name imp...