Top 10 Reasons Why GoGuardian Sucks
If you don't know what this is, GoGuardian is basically a spyware extension that schools put on students' computers. It allows schools to block most websites, including those that are school-appropriate.Even websites like Quora and TheTopTens are blocked by GoGuardian at my school, which forces me to log in under the much less restrictive guest mode.
Feel free to add anything I didn't already list here.
Illegal. Literally illegal. Schools clearly don't understand the Fourth Amendment.
I'd be so happy if GoGuardian got banned forever, or if something else stopped it from being a digital spy balloon over America.
Dude, what the heck? This was a problem, but at least we used a different system similar to GoGuardian. It wasn't really effective, so kids (including me) could play Among Us in the classroom and even Roblox at home. It's nuts kids don't get to do whatever they want.
But you should feel lucky. In most schools, they monitor kids without the computer. So, we should be grateful we can at least log off if we want to.
The people at GoGuardian do not update what they block, meaning they don't ever change what they allow you to look at.
They obviously do this to make students angrier, and that decision is the opposite of helpful.
At my school, GoGuardian will sometimes block school-appropriate websites that teachers want you to use. For instance, my 9th-grade computer applications teacher once told us to go to www.brainpop.com, but it was blocked for no reason.
I can understand blocking videos that are actually inappropriate, but why in the world does it block certain song lyric videos while allowing others of the exact same song? It's stupid and extremely annoying.
GoGuardian makes YouTube videos inaccessible to students for trivial reasons like, "This video is blocked because it belongs in the category 'People & Blogs'." This is so annoying.
These are the schools that want kids to be educated without the need for worldly things. It's so sad that they won't allow kids to do what they want.
Bro, most games aren't even inappropriate. I had to go to this website called "Blooket" because my teacher hosted a game. GoGuardian blocked me! At lunch, I asked my principal about this, and the principal said it was inappropriate. I don't get it. That game isn't inappropriate!
With GoGuardian, I can't do anything I like. I wanted to watch a panda cam, and it blocked me! Seriously, what have pandas ever done?
So true. Some games aren't even inappropriate for school.
GoGuardian is as annoying as Roblox moderation, but worse.
I understand that schools want us to focus on work, but still, GoGuardian is probably a reason why my Chromebook belongs in the bin.
I think that if someone is typing something to their friend or family during a free period or at home, it might be something private that they don't want their teacher to see. Students want their privacy and should be able to turn off GoGuardian if they don't want their teacher in their business.
They say that they only give you the most updated versions of everything they offer, but it still takes up a lot of storage.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. No warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I don't think that GoGuardian complies with the 4th Amendment. It basically spies on whatever you do.
The 4th Amendment grants the right to privacy, but schools still violate the privacy of students by spying on literally everything they do online.
There is nothing creepier than knowing someone is spying on you, even when you are in your own home.
If you're thinking of getting around GoGuardian with a proxy, there's a 99.9% chance that the proxy you're using is blocked. This makes it much harder to bypass the extreme restrictions.
For me, some proxies are still available, but I think in other districts, it does block proxies.
Hmm. Yep. Protecting safety, all right. But how come they get to use YouTube and stuff? Not fair.
Once I was taking a science quiz in a different window. However, my stupid teacher destroyed everything in the other window by closing all the tabs.
She destroyed my tab groups! They were for organization!
I haven't had this problem, but from what I've read, some schools allow teachers to close tabs on students' computers for no good reason whatsoever. As if simply being spied on wasn't bad enough.
This is just something annoying, but not too bad because I used a website with the leave site popup, so teachers couldn't close it.
One time in school, someone was drawing Beyblades, those spinning things, and Pokémon and anime. But then the teacher clicked off his tab. He was annoyed, so whenever he was in school, he would use his home login. But even then, there would be websites that say cool math but have all sorts of games at your fingertips. The school shut it down one day, and he was mad!
This stupid extension literally spies on you 24/7. One time, I went to Roblox at like 2:00 AM, and GoGuardian was still on. Seriously? That's just stupid.
Come on. I understand at school, but doing it at home is ridiculous. We should have freedom.
It's a boring logo, and it reminds you that it's there and that someone is likely watching you.
It isn't even bad, but it just reminds you that you are being watched constantly.
The logo is just terrible. I see it all the time.
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This is the most annoying out of them all on my list because it can prevent you from playing games, watching YouTube, etc.
This happened to me once. I was banging on my keyboard and I got locked out.
This was in second grade. I was seven.
Never had this happen, thankfully. I still think it depends on the teacher and less on GoGuardian for making it.
One time, I signed in to my school account on my home computer, and GoGuardian said that it was setting itself up on my computer. When I removed my school account from Chrome on my home computer, it seemingly disappeared. I hope the school isn't going to restrict me from playing video games when I'm at home and not on my school account.
I hate it when teachers freeze my screen by disabling my browsing. It makes me want to flip them off!
When I was in school, teachers were removing my websites last year. This is why GoGuardian should be deleted. Imagine getting your history deleted by teachers for no reason.
I tried to play a game on Cool Math Games, but it gave me that evil screen. I also couldn't play Poki (though that one's understandable), or even Wordle parodies!
Bro, oh my God, that smashes the Fourth Amendment to pieces with a sledgehammer!
Wait, what? Oh my God, I'm so scared. I didn't know this.
It can what? I didn't know this. Now I'm scared.
This is annoying because it means your administrator won't let you use schoolwork help websites. Even your teachers force you to use these, and you find out they've been blocked for no reason.
I was trying to use Complex Sentence Generator (so I can make my sentences sound smarter), but it blocked it right when I was checking up on it. GoGuardian sucks!
Why? Literally, I was using a website for my assignment, but then I saw that stupid screen again.
Okay, at this point, GoGuardian is literally a bloatware spyware thingy, NOT an educational extension. You don't need to track my location for educational purposes! I'm scared.
Illegal. It is quite literally illegal. I didn't even know this until I read this, and now I am in fear.
It tracks your location? Google said that is a clear breach of the law!
This idea isn't a tragedy, but overall it kind of sucks. I can't even do anything on my computer when I'm home sick, or else my teacher will realize I'm not doing my schoolwork and get mad. They don't understand why you can't work at all when you aren't feeling well. I really think you deserve to play a game or do stuff on it after a long day of hard work.
Annoying, but my teachers only do it when they need to. Really, I'd rather be mad at my teacher for using this than at GoGuardian for making it.
If teachers do this, this might be the most annoying thing for 100% of gamers.
Once, my teacher took a screenshot of me playing a game that I was using for only a minute because I finished my work. She put it on the screen for the whole class and claimed I was on it all class.
I don't really know how to say this, but this stinks when you're getting on a game for ten seconds or so just to bookmark it. Your teacher takes a screenshot and gets mad at you for no reason because they have false proof. Or when you get an inappropriate Google search result, they will probably think you're looking at inappropriate stuff on purpose and take a shot of it.
Just because it's categorized as unknown doesn't mean there's an issue with the website. It's still technically safe! Once, I tried going into Settings on my Chromebook to enable dark mode so my eyes wouldn't get roasted, but then I got that evil screen. It might be categorized as unknown.
Even if it's categorized as unknown, what's the issue? It's still okay to use the website!
This should be removed, along with GoGuardian itself.