Chromebook Purge

A Chromebook Purge is an event where the AHHS Administration blocks something on the school-issued Chromebooks, replaces them en masse, or installs new software en masse.
== History ==
As you could imagine, as with any public high school, the administration liked to keep a good grip on what students were using their school-issued devices for, and thus not only were several websites blocked during the Council's time at Abington, but sometimes new software was installed en masse to monitor the students, and sometimes the chromebooks were replaced altogether. Its important to note, that the Class of 2021 (aka the original Meme Councillers) were the first class to have school-issued chromebooks. They were also the first class to be able to take them home, and the first class to have to keep a chromebook for 3 years. Thus, this class was fortunate to witness the entire 'saga' so to speak as the administration clumsily tried to administrate these newfound devices for twelve hundred students. There is quite a lot of notable events, and thus they will simply be listed in bullet-point format in chronological order.
* 3/27/2018 - Google hangouts is rumored to be one of the first major sites blocked as students were using it to chat during class. This is what prompted the Meme Council to migrate to Discord.
* 4/10/2018 - Twitch is blocked
* No exact date/Freshman year - Abington uses Chromium, a service that lets them directly view everyones chromebook screens, and allows teachers to remotely close tabs. Few teachers fully employed this, but on one such occasion, Meme Lord had his tabs closed during class by Cauldron.
** This service ended up being a virus (no shrekking idea how they made that mistake), and a good portion of the chromebooks were infected (over 100). Some were damaged beyond repair by the time the administration had removed Chromium from everyone's Chromebooks by the end of the year. A. Cardone, for example, had to get his Chromebook replaced.
* 6/13/2018 - Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and Instagram are all blocked
* 6/19/2018 - AHHS decides to remove BYOD(Bring Your Own Device), the wifi network designed specifically for students to use their own device at school. This is a major hit to the Council and students in general, as BYOD was far faster than the regular wifi and didn't have any of the restrictions.
** The first chromebooks are turned in at the end of the year
** Additionally, AHHS no longer allowed anybody to bring their own laptops/chromebooks to the school
* 8/24/2018 - Discord.com (at the time, this was not even the real discord website. It was 'discordapp.com' back in the day) is blocked
* 9/5/2018 - Comets wifi is introduced, a replacement to BYOD, but its reformatted and allows the administration to monitor those using it.
* 9/6/2018 - The discord extension app is used by the Council to circumvent monitoring by the Administration.
* 10/8/2018 - UltraSurf is used by the Council to circumvent the school's restrictions
* 11/5/2018 - BYOD is temporarily brought back, but is removed the next day.
* 3/1/2019 - Abington's proxy expires, thus allowing for a brief period of freedom for roughly a week.
* 3/29/2019 - UltraSurf is blocked, but can still be activated before getting to school.
* 4/17/2019 - Evike (an airsoft gun online store) is blocked
* 6/19/2019 - Abington decides in their infinite wisdom that returning sophomores will be keeping the recycled Lenovo N22's from last year for the rest of their time at Abington, meanwhile the freshman would receive new HP 11's. 
* 9/11/2019 - Brand accounts are blocked off of all gsuite google accounts
** This is why Meme Lord had to migrate his youtube channel to an official, personal one.
* 10/4/2019 - School's IP is blocked by Google, again.
* 11/21/2019 - Chromebook wallpapers are blocked and can no longer be changed and are replaced with just a white screen
** This is due to Brosama and another individual changing their backgrounds to a certain type of anime
* 12/9/2019 - AHHS makes one of its biggest blocks yet - removing personal accounts. You could no longer sign into your Chromebook via a google account that wasn't part of the school's gsuite. This was quite surprising, as it meant no more freedom essentially, and everything would be logged to an unchangeable, inerasable gsuite account.
** There were a few lucky individuals who escaped this, one of them being Taken Bacon, who had managed to evade a lot of the Chromebook restrictions, possibly due to a glitch on his Chromejohn.
** This was done apparently due to a student who had used a personal account to somehow get a 3rd party program to manually turn the schools wifi on and off
* 12/10/2019 - Browsing history deletion is blocked
** This ended up being a big 'uh oh' for certain individuals... (W. Davis reference)
* 12/11/2019 - The ability to use BlueTooth on chromebooks is blocked
* 12/18/2019 - Printing is blocked, locked to 'save as pdf'
** The school quickly redacts this change as dozens of students panic as they couldn't print their essays and homework
* 2/10/2020 - Inspect element is blocked, but can still be used by using the middle mouse click method
* 5/1/2020 - AHHS does it again, another monitoring service (hopefully not a virus this time) is installed en masse during the break between actual learning and virtual learning. This is known as GoGuardian, and is the service that finally blocked Discord off Chromebooks. As always, the Council found a way, and began using a chrome extension that loaded it as a separate app.
** GoGuardian is quite restrictive, even blocking most youtube videos
** Used an algorithm to block random sites based on student usage, and determining if its even educational, thus a comical amount of sites were restricted
* 5/18/2020 - Spotify is blocked
* 6/5/2020 - oktoberfest.de is discovered to be blocked (apparently this was important to Snazzmaster)
* 8-11?/?/2020 - Sometime during this semester, Abington blocks the ability to put images in school emails, unless sent by guidance or the administration.
* 9/4/2020 - School emails have been actively blocking emails sent by non-school emails. (Unknown when this started)
* 9/11/2020 - Several sites needed for classes are blocked and have to be manually requested by the teachers to be unblocked, such as MultiSim for Meestur Deeskuh's DE class.
** Additionally, all Lumen sites are blocked by GoGuardian, also needed by teachers for their classes
* 9/18/2020 - Gmail themes are blocked
* 9/24/2020 - Different camera resolutions for Google Meet are blocked, and everyone is forced to 360p.
* 10/8/2020 - Discord messaging is temporarily blocked
* 10/16/2020 - GoGuardian is finally removed, but Abington issues a new era of blocking, and Discord is finally completely blocked.
* 10/27/2020 - Youtube recommendations are blocked (this was a weird one)
* 10/29/2020 - Lingojam.com is blocked after Meme Lord makes an AHHS Translator, which apparently found its way to the administration quite quickly
* 11/2/2020 - Imgur is blocked
* 11/9/2020 - Urban Dictionary is blocked, likely due to definitions made by students for Abington Heights and its staff. The Council definitely didn't contribute to that!
* 11/15/2020 - The funny site is blocked
* 12/10/2020 - Relay, the successor to GoGuardian, is implemented. Like GoGuardian, Relay automatically blocks sites and uses an algorithm to find sites students are using who shouldn't be, and gives the site a category such as "social media".
* 12/14/2020 - Another massive block - profile pictures are removed. Each user would see their own profile image, but for everyone else it would simply be the google default - the first letter of your first name.
** This was due to a Sophomore, J. Berdnarz, who changed his pfp to Osama Bin Laden (Kinda funny honestly).
** You could keep your current one to look at yourself, but if you tried to change it, it would now permanently reset to the gsuite letter type.
* 12/18/2020 - Administration blocks a plethora of certain Youtube channels and videos, including, for some reason, anything to do with Call of Duty.
* 1/15/2021 - Google Translate is blocked (still dont get this one)
* 2/14/2021 - Web Archive is blocked (Again, what the shrek)
* 3/23/2021 - CoolMathGames is blocked, possibly one of the worst hits yet, as well as narwhal.io
* 3/25/2021 - Onworks (a vpn) is blocked automatically by Relay
* 5/17/2021 - Unblock everything, a helpful extension used to get around Relay, is blocked.
* 5/21/2021 - Wifi is further restricted - A device must now be registered with the school wifi to connect, so having the wifi password wouldn't even help you. "EduNet", the school's wifi network is restricted from students and rebranded as "AHEduNet".
** Additionally, several personal browsers are blocked, such as LeafBrowser, which students were using to circumvent the ever increasing restrictions.
** The only place to get data was in the basement, best in Vannaniel's class.
*8/9/2021 - The new Chromebook generation, the Dell 3100's, are brought in as the new successors to the HP 11's.
* 10/22/2021 - AHHS bans every app from the webstore - This was one of, if not the, largest crackdown on Chromebooks yet. Not only was every app banned except a very small handful of apps needed for certain classes, but every app on every chromebook was also force-uninstalled.
** Fortunately, as always, the Council found a workaround with proxies.
** Additionally, there were some Chromebooks unaffected like before, this time MondayMan being one of the lucky souls to have an unaffected chromebook.
* 3/1/2022 - AHHS bans all extensions and adds a force login - Yet another very large, very strict crackdown on the Chromebooks, just as devastating as the app ban. Not only was every extension banned, and every one you had installed either disabled or force-removed, but students now had to log into their chromebooks every time they were opened, more than likely to allow the administration to track login/usage times. I hate to make this reference, but, this is literally 1984.
** Ringo and Tactician still try to share a new web-based proxy, but its difficult to use in these conditions. Thus its here where new bots, specifically made for Meme Councillers to access the Council while at school, are made: Machinicholas, and Bready Snazzbear.
* ~2/9/2023 (estimated) - Google Hangouts is entirely inaccessible as it is replaced with Google Chats.
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