Google is reportedly threatening schools who wish to disable AI on student Chromebook laptops.
Many ppl warned this would happen when Chromebooks first came out. We were ignored.
This is a leopards eating faces moment.
Short term, there are lots of other search engines; it's easy-peasy to change the default across the entire fleet.
Pure #Linux is the long term solution.
Chromebooks have already been deprecated by Google. Don't get suckered again, schools.
@mattsheffield As a member of the US school system, I hate Chromebooks so much. If you have never used one, it's one of the worst tech experiences imaginable. Even worse than self checkout. Keystroke logging, browser surveillance, (hapara), you can only run chrome, Google workspace, Gmail, plus the school WiFi blocks access to websites. No UblockOrigin 😭. And I can't bring my own computer 😉 because in order to tell if I used AI to write an essay, they need a Google doc log of everything I wrote.
@AnarchistLakeland 100% agree. They are awful, trash devices. No one should use them. They're deliberately crippled spyware.
