Tech Public Service Announcement: Using JavaScript Exploits to get games on Chromebooks

Chromebooks. The Spyware infested web machines we have all grown so familiar with. With there being no way to run a conventional executable like on any mainstream OS like Windows, Mac, or Linux it is no wonder why such a thing like this exists.

So what are they? What should you do with one if you find it? But most importantly of all, the ethicality of exploits in general.

What even is a JavaScript Exploit and How can it be used to circumvent school restrictions and possibly allow for the activity of gaming?

I'm no stranger to technology, which means that while my peers were out here rotting their brains on TikTok and Overindulging in Celebrity sponsor products, I have been learning what most kids my age don't, the inner workings of machines on both a hardware and software level. This interest in tech brought me down a never ending rabbit hole of knowledge that most modern consumers have neglected in favor of more traditional cultures like movies and sports. This interest brings me to the star of the show. 

Meet Bringus Studios. This guy takes weird technology and modifies them to his heart's content in the attempt of running games on it. That whole "modifies them to his heart's content" part of him is what sparked my interest in exploits. I had recently learned a simple little programming language called JavaScript, which for being so simple has managed to power 98% of all websites on the internet. 

Now I call these exploits "exploits" for a good reason. On your average home PC or personal Chromebook, these are completely harmless. The same cannot be said for Work and School sanction Chromebooks (yes some workplaces do have their employees use those trash books). 

These exploits have the potential to completely disobey school restrictions and allow for... certain kinds of explicit material to be viewed or interacted with on these devices. Who am I f***ing kidding, just bring a USB drive with porn on it, I don't give a sh*t. 

But on a more serious note, these exploits have the potential to enable gaming where it is prohibited. If you say "Well I can just find the first unblocked game website I find on google and play on that and be gaming. What's the big deal?" then I say this. Not all people can do that. Just because you can, doesn't mean someone else can.

And not to mention the fact that, for me at least, doing that feels like just taking the easy way out. I don't get dopamine for doing something any old average Joe with a computer can do. Because If I don't challenge myself to take the hard method of doing things, not only do I just not feel proud of it, but also that schools can just knock out these websites one by one, or just enable a whitelist and call it a day, and leave me stranded with no gaming.

I game on Chromebooks for two reasons: To have fun and spit in the face of authority.

Enough about all of that. What about if you found yourself in the same situation I get myself into where you manage to bypass school restrictions with an exploit you found.

Now this is the part where what you do can be biased by your social life and ethics.

Should you snitch to the admins about the exploit and force your classmates not to be able to play actually good games at the hands of the I.T. department subsequently destroying the fame you had from said exploit, or should you keep it to you and the students and not share it with the admins and risk being in trouble with your school admins? Again, that all depends on you.

For me, gaming feels like taking back a right of freedom to game when we feel so from those who view it as nothing but a "distraction" or "violence influencer". So I choose to keep my exploits sacred with me and my peers.

However, if you're a teacher's pet, you probably don't care about all of that and just want to please every authority possible. You only care about snitching about to the teachers when kids like me the microsecond I dare to commit the crime of disrespecting authority rules. But I say this to you, Where will that behavior get you in life? Probably nowhere great, because most people despise teacher's pets and snitches.

But to conclude all of this, not to talk about the ethics of this kind of attitude to authority figures, but rather the simple grand question that you probably have on your mind right now.

Why?

"Why should I care about any of this? Why should I keep these things to myself? Why wouldn't I just take the easy route and used an unblocked game website? Why did you even make this article?"

Why did I waste my time with this?

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I know that probably makes no sense to you. I just spent a good half an hour making this yappathon of an "PSA" which, let's be realistic, was never a PSA. I just made this page of complete boredom. I like writing long articles like this about a particular subject I am deeply involved in.

So Why did I just call this entire thing a waste of time?

Well simple. It's a message. One that aims to get an idea into your head that most essays or articles simple fail to do especially with all of your doom scrollers. The simple fact you read this entire PSA shows that you are different from other people and actually took the time to read and hear about what I had to say.

 This is a message was meant to get an idea in your head, one that you don't always have to sit there and take the bullshit that authorities will try and shove down your throat and expect you to comply with.

However, like may my favorite saying goes "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should"

I bet you are probably wondering at this point "Man, why did I waste my time listening to a freshman yap about tech and spitting in the face of my teachers."

I dunno, you're telling me ;)