GoGuardian

GoGuardian gives teachers and administrators complete control over everything you do online, as well as letting them monitor you even outside of class. It also invades your privacy by giving them the ability to track your location and even see through your camera. It allows school staff to censor pretty much anything they want, even educational websites that you need for class. Its only purpose is censorship and invasion of privacy. That it is so widely used reflects the hypocrisy of a society that claims to hate censorship and value privacy, yet has no qualms about taking actions that show exactly the opposite.

Whoever came up with this has an IQ of 1. Goguardian minds everyone's business. Who cares about this stupid screenseer?

I got an F in math because I got a bunch of math videos blocked because goguardian said: "This content is blocked because it belongs too category "Education"". It even blocked GAMING MUSIC! This app does NOT deserve to be capitalized. 1 star.

I CANT EVEN DO ANYTHING ON MY CHROME BOOK I AM IN 5TH GRADE AND I DONT LIKE GOGARDEN BECAUSE IT LOOKS AT ALL OF MY STUFF AND ITS ANOYYYIIIIIINGGGGG UGHHHHHHHHH

It's so fun! I get to sit my fat-$#*! on a chair for 6 hours a day, and ALWAYS watch what my students are doing! I can unnecessarily block ANYTHING I want just because I feel like it!

Even when the kids are at home, with their doors closed and vulnerable, I can open up Go Guardian, and try to video chat them! The looks on their faces when they've been caught doing something at home that they thought they were safe doing is PRICELESS! Once, at 6:30pm, I got bored and decided to snoop on the kids on the site. (Yea, I know I probably shouldn't do that after school hours, but who's stopping me?) I caught some boy in my 2nd period class looking up some 'interesting' things on his device! I screenshot what he was doing immediately! The next day I outed him out in front of the whole class, and he left the room in tears! I felt good about it, because I just helped my school block yet ANOTHER prn website!

You know what else? I can see their location AT ALL TIMES! This amazing feature has allowed me to stalk students home whenever I want to! I can even stalk wherever they go, as long as they have their school-issued device with them. This is a very good program! I would recommend this to many teachers!

Although GoGuardian is a very useful tool for teachers, it can be quite troublesome depending on the user. For example, if a student is caught browsing on their computer when they are not allowed, the teacher is able to shut down the computer and disable all browsing via GoGuardian. However, this has to be disabled manually, or else the student will not be able to use their computer for practically the entire day. Teachers will often forget to do this and the student will be locked out of their computer for the rest of the school day. Another negative factor of GoGuardian is that the teachers can see what the students are doing at home, away from the classroom. I'm not an expert or anything, but wouldn't that be considered spyware? Not to mention that the teachers are able to digitally message, call, and type on the student's screen without any consent or warning when GoGuardian is being used. This means that a teacher could randomly begin a video call with a student at home, which is likely a violation of privacy. When a district controls GoGuardian, that makes it even more difficult. They will often block certain keywords, which can be annoying if you're just searching up the definition of a word, or doing research on a certain topic. Blocked keywords often include "unblocked" and "fortnite OR fortnight". If I searched up "unblocked definition" that would automatically be restricted due to keyword filtering (shown in image, school district hidden for privacy reasons). GoGuardian can absolutely be a useful tool, if it was just a little bit more advanced and user-friendly so that school teachers and districts could navigate it, making things easier for everyone.

This review was written by a student, but I tried to keep it as unbiased as possible :)

WHY IS GO GUARDIAN EVEN A THING IT SHOULD BE BANNED FROM THE WHOLE WORLD DUDE YOU CANT PLAY GAMES OR INSTALL GAMES PS IT SUCKS

This website is FOUL! My kid came home from school today crying. She said that she was being "stalked" her teacher told her that Go Guardian sells all your information, and USES YOUR CAMERA TO LOOK AT YOU, and now she doesn't even want to go to school again. This website single-handedly ruined her life. And I will sue!

Our school literally blocked everything. We could access pinterest, which i used a fair amount for art references, and then they blocked it along with youtube and everything else... i hate it, and it can rot in hell. (not to mention that you can LITERALLY SPY on students... how tf is this legal?)

I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot provide biased or false information about a website or any other entity. However, I can give you some general guidelines on how to identify and report any violations of your rights or privacy online.

If you feel that your rights or privacy have been violated by a website or online service, you should first review their privacy policy and terms of service to determine if they have acted in compliance with their own policies. You may also want to consider filing a complaint with the website or online service provider, as well as with regulatory agencies or consumer protection organizations. It's important to be informed and vigilant about protecting your rights and privacy online, and to take action when necessary to address any violations or abuses.

This is the worst thing ever!. Imagine I you just came back from a long day of and want to play chess. Chess is not distracting, or bad in fact it helps your brain. NOPE goguardian wants to unneccearciaaly block chess. Goguardian wants to bock nearly every website in the world!. F*cking SH*T

I believe that this specific program is basically useless. All it does is block things and expose private information, which is not good. If I could, I would choose any other better blocker, because I can't even search for videos on YouTube without a restricted message.

It may be a banal, superficial, and cliche comparison, but I believe this technology was heralded by George Orwell himself in his work titled 1984. I'm literally like that one guy who got executed for writing a diary, except the diary is Duck Life, and the execution is an irritating passive-aggressive comment from my teacher. (I don't know, I never read the book but my point still stands). As I type this out, I have my finger hovering over the buttons required to switch tabs so that my teacher does not reprimand me before our entire class. I would almost rather a public execution than whatever sick form of humiliation this is. TL;DR GoGuardian is the bringer of misery, destroyer of privacy, and harbinger of tyranny.

It is the most horrible thing on planet Earth. It even tracks your location, which is just wrong. This tool is often abused, and I would recommend just going into developer mode if it gets added to your Chromebook. I swear it makes browsing a nightmare. This is a gamer's worst nightmare. One of the ways to submit this review was even blocked. I mean, WTF?

GOGUARDIAN IS THE WORST F#CKING XTENSION EVER. TEACHERS ABUSE IT SO MUCH. IT BLOCKS SCHOOL APPROPIATE SITES AND ALLOWS TEACHERS TO WATCH YOUR SCREEN. THIS IS JUST AN INVASION OF PRIVACY. ALSO TEACEHRS CLOSE TABS AND CAN TURN ON YOUR CAMERA. AND IT WATCHES YOUR F#CKING LOCATION. IF I COULD GIVE ZERO STARS I WOULD. F#CK GOGUARDIAN F#CK GOGUARDIAN F#CK GOGUARDIAN F#CK GOGUARDIAN F#CK GOGUARDIAN F#CK GOGUARDIAN. IF I WAS PRESIDENT THE FIRST THING I WOULD DO IS BAN THIS EXTENSION

Blocks everything for me I can't go on a single website without getting blocked it would be good if stuff was blocked only during school hours but no my school computer is basically useless outside of school things please make blocking stuff only during school

It's so good it needs a 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999.999 rating. Because teachers can use it to look at what their students are doing so they will never get on something they aren't supposed to do again.

My child complained about this site that teachers use to monitor their students screen. I thought they were just monitoring the screen till I looked deeper and read that they can see the students through their screen. What if a child is home-schooled and on their computer while getting dressed?! A teacher can watch them get dressed. I don't think this site should be legal, 1 star. Do good.

I wish the creators of this awful spyware from hell get thrown in jail for spying on children. It reopens itself when you close it, it's always watching, and there is absolutely no way to get rid of it without completely powerwashing the computer.