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How can I avoid proprietary software on school & company computers? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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School computers are riddled with spyware & proprietary software, the fact that they use windows is bad enough, but then you are forced to use edge or chrome and other proprietary software and often you are blocked from installing open source alternatives like librewolf or duck duck go may be blocked.

What I am asking is, how can we get around this, do i just need to bring my own laptop using FOSS privacy respecting software. or is there another way around this. Thanks for the help.

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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Literally, nuts. I imagine that was the end result of a handful of meetings trying to figure out what to do with you.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah. The principal and the other administrators floated suspension, among other things. My parents had to take off work to come in and fight them with me. The staff were all so hopelessly ignorant of all things IT that they were acting as if I’d been using some kind of malware. After they decided to kick me off, they emailed all my teachers telling them I’d been banned for “hacking” and “deploying computer viruses”. It was all quite surreal. This was in Virginia, USA.

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