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- redspacecat
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https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+use+the+internet+in+the+usjust because there ARE tons of websites doesnt mean anyone other than a few thousand people use it AT BEST.im not from the other countries, but here in the states there are like 5 websites people go to and thats basically it. sure you'll find a minicommunity here and a microcommunity there, a blog here and an alternative news source there, but barely anyone is there.“5 websites and that's it” is crazy. The US literally has half a million websites on Google Sites, hosts around 60% of all websites worldwide, and is the third country with most internet traffic, only beaten by China and India. It's not just 5 websites and that's it.
Anyways, yeah, with a country this big and with so much traffic it make sense to have laws about what companies can't do with minors' data. Most of them just don't want to get their asses sued, so they just ask “hey are you under 13? we won't check this, but you agree to be truly transparent on your age! under 13? sorry mate, try in a few years” and problem solved.
- josueart
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just because there ARE tons of websites doesnt mean anyone other than a few thousand people use it AT BEST.Okay, yeah. We got a bit deviated. We're still talking about COPPA. It's necessary and useful, and not a silly restriction so you can't access websites. You wouldn't want your children signing up on suspicious, unknown platforms where people interact with others without your knowledge, right? I certainly wouldn't.
It's not about assuming every website is bad, but about ensuring platforms handle children's data responsibly. “I'd rather see a law like this in place than leave it up to companies to decide how to treat kids’ privacy”, that's what I'm trying to say.
- PaxtonPenguin
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Related to School IT (and how to defeat it), by putting a . after the TLD (e.g. scratch.mit.edu.) you can defeat the web blocker (unless the web blocker removes the dot). The fun thing is that people have actually taken down the reason why that works, thrice. It's called the root server, and theres 13 of them in the world, and each one has like 200 servers linked together.
- Alpha_Centuria
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School IT
There are no alerts when you are offline, its up to the people running the school to guess. (if they even do their job) I don't think there is an alert for reenrollment either. The only thing they get an alert for is if you get in devmode, and it isn't even triggered because you can't even use it, it's blocked. Also there is a new way (highlight to reveal)->>>>>>GitHub.com / fwsmasher / cryptosmite<<<<<<<-(#1611)I don't think it's a good Idea to post a powerwashing tutorial herePowerwashing your Chromebook is NOT theft. 99% of the time you can't escape your school by powerwashing. If you can then it's the school's fault and they deserve it imo. the worst thing that can happen is that your school will have to login for you but that's it (and you lose your stuff). (removed)(#1605)My district has also blocked Crosh (Chrome Treminal) along with all google searches with the word “Crosh”! It seems as if they've had an “incident” with one of the students and have even gone as far as blocking misspellings and the word with spaces!man can y'all help me I have light speed filter agent dos any body know a way to bypass itNo.
Even if I did, I wouldn't tell you.
My school blocked the terminals on Chromebooks, but so far hasn't blocked cmd.exe on the 11+ year old windows machines in the building (which can somehow run Chrome 124, not quite certain how. It does take an average of ten minutes to load, though)
Also, the admin password used to be the same one used to sign in on those windows computers- then the admin account was hacked and the IT department had to change their password. One does wonder why it was ever the same in the first place, or if they just never got around to changing it.
For some reason, on all school google accounts running Chrome, the inspect feature is blocked. This is ironic, considering there is a class about website design that has been running for the past 5 years- and that's the primary way to debug websites.I haven't had any luck with powerwashing (even if it did work, that'd be theft) and I've read that some districts are alerted when a device is powerwashed. chrome://net-export is also blocked because it dumps the school's wifi creds…
And yes, I know there are better ways to un-enroll school chromebooks(None of which should be discussed here as stated in OP) I only mentioned powerashing because it most likely won't work if the school district has the most basic of security policies enabled.
Edit: While I don't condone the use of these “unenrollment methods,” be aware that if you do choose to use them, school admins are alerted once a device is inactive for a period of time (Usualy around 15 days from what I've read). Not only that, but they are also notified when a new device is re-enrolled with their domain, so they can very easily contact you once you show up in their weekly report. I would link to my sources, but they're all on r***it (definitely a no-no site)
To bad my school bans GitHub
- RobotChickens
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(#1811)idk what one you use, but I haven't once been stopped from watching a video. If you have the right one it does nothingYouTube will not let you use an ad blocker there, you cannot watch videos with one because the video player will disable. YouTube suggests instead either buying a YouTube premium subscription to remove ads the fair way or to just let the ads roll and deal with it.(#1806)You could try to petition the IT dept (or principal) to use a different, better software. Just an idea, idk if it will work.
My IT uses an extension called Securly, which seems all cute fine, and dandy when they sell the teachers, students, AND PARENTS AND THE SCHOOLS data.
IT IS NOT COPPA safe.(#1805)XD(#1789)My school had to remove our adblockers because they were blocking and breaking things the teachers needed.
my school district just removed and blocked the ad blocker that they installed
!!!! like i dont want constant ads everywhere they got that for a reason
- Catzcute4
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our school infostuffs can be 3/4-deciphered by looking at the profile, the only hard part is the last 4 digits which is still not too much
luckily, there exists ways to change the pw
btw my school doesn’t ban Crosh, or for that matter, basically any shortcuts execpt stuff like google assistant, luckily i barley know how to use crosh
luckily, there exists ways to change the pw
btw my school doesn’t ban Crosh, or for that matter, basically any shortcuts execpt stuff like google assistant, luckily i barley know how to use crosh
Last edited by Catzcute4 (Feb. 22, 2025 18:23:50)
- Catzcute4
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Scratcher
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Related to School IT (and how to defeat it), by putting a . after the TLD (e.g. scratch.mit.edu.) you can defeat the web blocker (unless the web blocker removes the dot). The fun thing is that people have actually taken down the reason why that works, thrice. It's called the root server, and theres 13 of them in the world, and each one has like 200 servers linked together.so i did that with scratch, and the fourms were fullscreen, but then when i tried posting, i got:
Forbidden (403)
CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.
More information is available with DEBUG=True.
lol
- GvYoutube
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Scratcher
1000+ posts
School IT
i tried logging in and it took 5 hoursRelated to School IT (and how to defeat it), by putting a . after the TLD (e.g. scratch.mit.edu.) you can defeat the web blocker (unless the web blocker removes the dot). The fun thing is that people have actually taken down the reason why that works, thrice. It's called the root server, and theres 13 of them in the world, and each one has like 200 servers linked together.so i did that with scratch, and the fourms were fullscreen, but then when i tried posting, i got:
Forbidden (403)
CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.
More information is available with DEBUG=True.
lol
- TheTVoigt
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Scratcher
13 posts
School IT
My school IT blocked turbowarp and the cyan turbowarp mod
when I receive [the website blocked page v]
crash out
Last edited by TheTVoigt (Feb. 25, 2025 21:11:06)
- Redstone1080
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Did I mention my school board had a cyberattack the first week of second semester?
We needed to change our passwords, and the wifi and school board web services were also down for a week.
Now, you'd think after an event like that, I'd be diligent in changing my password, changing it completely.
You would think that.
But no. It ends in a number, and I incremented it by one.
Yes, you're allowed to laugh at me.
We needed to change our passwords, and the wifi and school board web services were also down for a week.
Now, you'd think after an event like that, I'd be diligent in changing my password, changing it completely.
You would think that.
But no. It ends in a number, and I incremented it by one.
Yes, you're allowed to laugh at me.
Last edited by Redstone1080 (Feb. 25, 2025 21:19:04)
- 2016s4m29
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School IT
(#1831)Oh god. That is very serious
Did I mention my school board had a cyberattack the first week of second semester?
We needed to change our passwords, and the wifi and school board web services were also down for a week.
Now, you'd think after an event like that, I'd be diligent in changing my password, changing it completely.
You would think that.
But no. It ends in a number, and I incremented it by one.
Yes, you're allowed to laugh at me.
- minniesworld
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School IT
Did I mention my school board had a cyberattack the first week of second semester?I would just flip the case of my password. I use caps lock instead of shift anyway…
We needed to change our passwords, and the wifi and school board web services were also down for a week.
Now, you'd think after an event like that, I'd be diligent in changing my password, changing it completely.
You would think that.
But no. It ends in a number, and I incremented it by one.
Yes, you're allowed to laugh at me.
- BigNate469
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School IT
Did I mention my school board had a cyberattack the first week of second semester?See, most of my passwords contain random Unicode symbols that aren't even on most keyboards. They're pretty hard to guess.
We needed to change our passwords, and the wifi and school board web services were also down for a week.
Now, you'd think after an event like that, I'd be diligent in changing my password, changing it completely.
You would think that.
But no. It ends in a number, and I incremented it by one.
Yes, you're allowed to laugh at me.
- GvYoutube
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Scratcher
1000+ posts
School IT
Lemme geuss, it's just random emoji like:Did I mention my school board had a cyberattack the first week of second semester?See, most of my passwords contain random Unicode symbols that aren't even on most keyboards. They're pretty hard to guess.
We needed to change our passwords, and the wifi and school board web services were also down for a week.
Now, you'd think after an event like that, I'd be diligent in changing my password, changing it completely.
You would think that.
But no. It ends in a number, and I incremented it by one.
Yes, you're allowed to laugh at me.
(emojis here)
- mali3000
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Did I mention my school board had a cyberattack the first week of second semester?:O that happened to my school district like 3 years ago, they just switched wifi networks and changed all our passwords to two numbers and then an adjective and a noun.
We needed to change our passwords, and the wifi and school board web services were also down for a week.
Now, you'd think after an event like that, I'd be diligent in changing my password, changing it completely.
You would think that.
But no. It ends in a number, and I incremented it by one.
Yes, you're allowed to laugh at me.
the thing is, they wont let us change our passwords again, which is baaaddd because thats not very secure!!!!!!
i bet they changed some other stuff too just not anything we could observe.
before they changed our passwords they gave us these qr code things that we had to reset our computers and scan every time we wanted to use them >_< that was only for like 2 weeks though
- mali3000
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School IT
i usually make my passwords with full sentences and spaces and numbers and stuff. and weird capitalsLemme geuss, it's just random emoji like:Did I mention my school board had a cyberattack the first week of second semester?See, most of my passwords contain random Unicode symbols that aren't even on most keyboards. They're pretty hard to guess.
We needed to change our passwords, and the wifi and school board web services were also down for a week.
Now, you'd think after an event like that, I'd be diligent in changing my password, changing it completely.
You would think that.
But no. It ends in a number, and I incremented it by one.
Yes, you're allowed to laugh at me.
(emojis here)
- Wolfieboy09
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Scratcher
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School IT
My school has it where devices (you can bring your laptop), are connected to the school wifi, they can block websites by blocking the response/not returning the DNS record, and I found a way to bypass it: Use a VPN. To log into the school wifi, you need your school username and password, and you in.
The teachers have their own username and password, and when I learned what it was one day, not surprised it was the easiest login creds ever
The teachers have their own username and password, and when I learned what it was one day, not surprised it was the easiest login creds ever
- BigNate469
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School IT
My school has it where devices (you can bring your laptop), are connected to the school wifi, they can block websites by blocking the response/not returning the DNS record, and I found a way to bypass it: Use a VPN. To log into the school wifi, you need your school username and password, and you in.Yeah, my school was smart enough to block the VPNs (along with every other browser extension), too.
Edit: 6,000th post
Last edited by BigNate469 (March 1, 2025 22:24:33)
- GvYoutube
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School IT
My school has it where devices (you can bring your laptop), are connected to the school wifi, they can block websites by blocking the response/not returning the DNS record, and I found a way to bypass it: Use a VPN. To log into the school wifi, you need your school username and password, and you in.my 5th grade teacher made a joke where his password was just dots. this was because windows 10 replaces characters with dots for security
The teachers have their own username and password, and when I learned what it was one day, not surprised it was the easiest login creds ever




I haven't had any luck with powerwashing (even if it did work, that'd be theft) and I've read that some districts are alerted when a device is powerwashed. chrome://net-export is also blocked because it dumps the school's wifi creds… 

(None of which should be discussed here as stated in OP) I only mentioned powerashing because it most likely won't work if the school district has the most basic of security policies enabled.



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