sabotaging the competition (how to disable, bypass, or variously interfere with some school monitoring and web filtering software) (wip)
note that these are things that worked at some point in time for me and my friends at our school, and may not work for everyone depending on how on top of things your school's IT person is! also if you have solutions for anything you can comment them and i'll add them to this post
GoGuardian (chrome extension): delete the profile you've been using with your school account, create a new one (with the school account,) and select the "no" response when it prompts you to sync your history/tabs/theme/extensions. this worked for me when i was in middle school, but i haven't checked since then
GoGuardian (app): network settings > vpn > goguardian press the little information icon and turn off "connect on demand," then turn off the vpn this works for me as of right now and is how i'm on tumblr making this post. it's also very patchable and probably will not work for everyone, but might be worth a try if your school hasn't figured it out yet
VisigoAgent (app): if your school has installed visigoagent and you keep getting an annoying popup asking you to give it screen recording and input monitoring permissions, this stops the popup from existing while it's running :3 indent everything after "while True"
import subprocess import time
while True: result1 = subprocess.run(['killall', "System Settings"], capture_output=True, text=True) result2 = subprocess.run(['killall', "VisigoAgent"], capture_output=True, text=True) if result1.stderr != "No matching processes belonging to you were found\n": print("Other output from System Settings killer: " + str(result1)) if result2.stderr != "No matching processes belonging to you were found\n": print("Other output from VisigoAgent killer: " + str(result2)) time.sleep(0.1)
courtesy of one of the Torment Hypercube people who is not on tumblr! to be run in a local python file
If you can't bypass whatever web filtering thing your school uses: annotateweb.com is good for looking at webpages! Torment Hypercube is also working on other proxies for this purpose, which will be added to this post when the person maintaining them responds to my discord message










