GoGuardianReviews 141

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.

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?

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.

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

INVADING MY PRIVACY WITH THIS VIRUS ITS TOXIC AS@#$% GET THIS OUT OF KIDS LIFE IT CAN SPY ON YOU OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL DONT USE ITS SPYWARE

As someone who is in school, I can say that my school uses GoGuardian. However, this app made me have trust issues as this app made me think that there was someone watching me everywhere. If I need to search something up for my assignment, NO. GoGuardian gave me trust issues because now I am paranoid that GoGuardian will close my tab for doing by WORK.

Most schools use GoGuardian, and that's bad because they are not able to trust students enough to do their work. However, teachers should be able to walk around the room and check if their students are on appropriate sites and doing the things that they need to do...not only that, but there is something called History...

Overall, this app is HORRIBLE.

I'm at home right now and my annoying $#*! teacher turns on goguardian and BLOCKED YOUTUBE FOR NO REASON NOW I CANT EVEN LISTEN TO MY music this app is just a dumb way to make sure students are not on task they take away the fun for no $#*!ing reason they even block websites that ARE NOT EVEN BAD LIKE ITS VERY ANNOYING LIKE IF WE ARE DOING something bad THEN GET YOUR LAZY ASSES UP AND TELL US NOT TO and it's very weird and creepy that they can see your camera. Without for your damn permission they won't even let you remove your search history which is just a invasion of students privacy and seriously why the hell would you want to have it on even on the weekends and at home it makes no sense like we can't even have fun anymore because it's this stupid app and taking away the fun whoever made this $#*!ty $#*! app i hope you get bankrupt also hope this stupid company gets hacked. I'm not done there they also block videos that are not even inappropriate let's see if you're watching music and it's blocked tHis VidEo iS BlOcKeD BeCuAse iT bRinGs calgArY muSic WHICH IS VERY DUMB they freaking blocked coolmath to like its not even fair this app sucks its very annoying that's stupid screws use this app

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!

"why do they want my location? What is this? I don't feel safe. My students don't deserve this! They are blocking everything! ####you!" (words said by many innocent ones) why? Just why? This needs to end. The hacking, stalking, blocking, adviat shinde (the one who carted this website) look around don't you realized how much you done to us? Kids are crying, teachers are mad. Some don't Evan care about us on much how gogardian treats us. we are trying to tell you the problems that are in that website but you just ignore it. It hurts to see our favorite YouTuber gets blocked or a favorite song or Evan a favorite show. Its apposed to keep us away from the harmful gun or violence ECT but insted its doing the opposite. Extra: now I found this website called lightspeed filter go check it out! In conclusion: I love tacos :)

BAD. I hate it because it blocks RANDOM safe websites for NO ABSOLUTE REASON. Such as...
Neal.fun
Scratch profils
RANDOM Youtube websites... etc.

This app is so stupid it literally blocks stuff that's not even inappropriate I understand yall are trying to keep us safe but having it on at home or even the weekends that's a little too far and The most creepy thing is that they can see your history and you can't even clear it they also block videos that are not bad and Appropriate websites too this app needs to be banned ASAP

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

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?)

All my students hate it and when I watch them I am a creepy stalker? My school district needs to get rid of it ASAP!

Advait Shinde the@#$%* created this stupid site that blocks youtube and other game sites.It invades privacy and teachers can use it to close tabs and they can disable browsing

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 :)

Goguardian is an awful extension. It blocks anything you go on. And even if it doesn't break school rules. IT STILL BLOCKS ITTT. THIS EXTENSION DESERVES TO BE REMOVE FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH WITH HOW BAD IT ISSSSSSSS.

I was writing a report about go gaurdian and found out it watchs you at home and they watch you AT ALL TIMES. Today my friend was writing a different report and on my teachers screen it said he looked up something inerproperiate but he did nothing. Please we all have to work together to get go gaurdian banned.

GoGuardian makes it hard to keep passwords and private conversations to ourselves since teachers can see everything, and yes, EVERYTHING on our computers. It's like someone watching everything you do. Even though the point is to restrict people from doing certain things, there are other ways to work around that.

I LOVE GO GUARDIAN THE FOUDNER IS **************x SMARTER THAN EISTEIN. BEST THING EVER MADE GO TRY IT OUT. THIS IS INSANELY GOOD.
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WTF IS THIS DOGSH*T I CAN EVEN WATCH YT I HOPE THIS FU^KING THING GETS BANNED.THE FOUNDER AND CEO OF GOGUARDIAN Is this DUM@$$ CALLED ADVAIT SHINDE, AND HE IS A MOTHERF*CKING B*TCH. THIS IS A GOOFY EYED CROOKED NOSED COTTON PICKING TOENAIL BITING TOILET DISPENSING PIECE OF *censored*. IT BLOCKS EVERY SHT ONLINE, BLOCKS YT Stuff, AND UR $#*!ED PEN!S-FACED TEACHER CAN TRACK YOUR LOCATIONG, ALSO THEY CAN SET TAB NUMBER LIMITS, AND CLOSE UR TABS> THIS IS PRIVACY ABUSE I F*CKING HATE THIS> SRSLY BAN THIS PIECE OF TURD> ALSO THIS IS A MOTHERF*CK*NG SPYWARE WTF IS THIS *censored*
Message to CEO of GOGUARDIAN.
Hey I just met u, and this is crazy, but here's my number, and ur a gay monkey.
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To TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL, I'D RATHER BE WATCHING P-HUB THAT USE GOGUARDIAN>
Just so u know, P-hub IS S*IT. Don't search it up. But it is nothing compared to GAYGUARDIAN THAT D*CKHEADED THING.
Now you know that GOGUARDIAN SUCKS@$$. I'm putting my self at risk for writing this review cuz GAYguardian is probably on. :(