How do I bypass parental controls on my Chromebook?
I have parental controls activated on my Netgear router. I am using a bypass account on a Windows computer and an Android tablet, but cannot figure out how to do so on my Chromebook. Is there a way to do this by routing the Chromebook's Internet access through a VPN, perhaps? Alternatively, can I activate parental controls only for the guest wifi network, and then use the main wifi network for the Chromebook?
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It doesn't seem there is a Genie for Chrome OS yet, so you cannot login to your bypass account. Connecting through a VPN seems to be an option, given that you find a VPN client to be installed on Chrome OS.
"can I activate parental controls only for the guest wifi network, and then use the main wifi network for the Chromebook?"
If your router model supports this, then yes, else no.
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This is very easy, so much so that my kids discovered it making open dns not an ideal choice for me. On the chromebook click on your network connection, open the connection you are using, go to advanced and look for networking. Simple select use google dns and that chromebook will bypass open dns. This is so easy that my 10 year old laughs at it so I had to get DD-WRT with a WRT1900AC router which allows me to force DNS on a router level. So now all devices use Open DNS regardless of what DNS provider is used locally. The only option as a parent now id the whitelist any sites you do want to visit.
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Unfortunately your comment is irrelevant here. This is about Chromebook OS behind a Netgear router with Live Parental Controls enabled and how to bypass LPC. With LPC enabled you cannot configure a different DNS service on the end user devices, because this would be blocked already by LPC.
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This is correct for nearly every end user device, not just for the Chromebook that you can configure a different DNS service. However, many (also ordinary) routers allow to block DNS (port 53) passthrough with an outbound firewall rule, so that only the router's IP address can be used as DNS resolver. This is the usual method to prevent from circumvention, as outlined in many other threads here.
But again, this is irrelevant in this thread which is about Netgear LPC and about bypassing it with a Chromebook. Your method does not work and is not easy in this scenario, because LPC already blocks bypassing of different DNS configuration.
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