My school has provided us some emails with a custom domain (not @gmail.com but @myschool.smth) and we as students are only able to login via gmail, however i obviously do not want that. What can i do to prevent that? I tried logging into the email via Thunderbird but i get blocked because my administrator doesn’t allow that.
Drop out
Stop being edgy and use Gmail if you want to fit in
You get to choose what you use in your personal life, but you won’t have much choice in your workplace.
My opinion is, be prudent. Compartmentalize school and life as much as you can.
How do i compartmentalize tho? only thing that comes to mind is to have containers, maybe flatpak or distrobox could help?
You can read your student code, most of them do not have anything that compels you to use the services that are provided. If that is the case, refuse to use the service and make your position known, they’ll generally give you a workaround or if they say that’s how it is, you can ask for the part of the student code with the nonexistent objective reason why you must use it.
If you don’t want to be a squeaky wheel, there are technical ways of limiting the information loss, but the easiest is to not install anything and be conscious of what location, network, & device you use
Tell them it is against your religion https://stallman.org/saint.html
Tell them it is against you religion https://stallman.org/saint.html
I would recommend in this situation:
Use Firefox or similar browser that has the ability to create container tabs
And open your school email in a dedicated school gmail container tab.
Then limit the container to just the dedicated sites. At least you won’t leak your browsing to google any more than you have to.
This add-on is needed to do some extra features with containers on firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
For work and school you have to deal with the tech stack that is given. It is just life.
You could open gmail inside a separate firefox container. As long as you don’t use the email beyond school purposes it would be fine.
What’s your issue with using gmail exactly?
