Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it

Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday April 04, 2022 @09:02PM (#30914032)

One solution could be to setup the laptop with a personal email account and configure the school email address to forward everything.

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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by SamBam on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:43PM (#30914783)

If the student needs to use a Chromebook for school, that won't work. On my daughter's Chromebook, every app and website is tied to the account. It's not just a question of forwarding email.

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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by staticassertion on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:13AM (#30915818)

You can have multiple accounts on a Chromebook.

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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by SamBam on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:02PM (#30927153)

As others have mentioned above, GoGuardian is at the device level, not the account level.

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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by staticassertion on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:06PM (#30927654)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30915660

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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday April 04, 2022 @11:50PM (#30915114)

Yeah, I’m assuming a lot about the ability to do what you need to do without a school account.

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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by eru on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:12PM (#30914563)

Not really applicable with the Chromebook, but in general I guess the safest thing is to log in to the school stuff only from a VM? (At least that way the damage is limited.)

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