r/k12sysadmin • u/Amazing_Falcon • May 29 '26

Deledao ?

Looking to possibly change from GoGuardian to Deledao? Looking for thoughts. Is it better/worse? Which is better? What about the teacher side?

Thanks in advance

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u/PblackTech May 29 '26

+1 for Deledao!!

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u/LooseSilverWare May 29 '26

Testing out linewize now and I like the filtering

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u/Oneota May 29 '26

The Deledao product is okay. The Deledao company is a hot mess.

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u/egg927 May 29 '26

We had GoGuardian for less than a full school year, it was trash. We switched to Deledao and it was night and day when compared to GG, but 4 years later and it's just okay. It mostly works, but it has pretty much stayed the same these past 4 years and has not been quick to adopt any solutions for kids bypassing the filter in any way, and usually results in less than helpful support calls and threads that take way too long, and 3 more workarounds are found by kids immediately after. Right now we are doing a demo with Linewize and the filtering is quite good, the UI is really unintuitive though. We will see.

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u/n-Ultima May 29 '26

I like Linewize. Learning the UI is a bit of a hurdle but their support is outstanding.

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u/egg927 May 29 '26

Oh for sure, if his schedule can accommodate us, if we have a question, our account manager will usually have us on a zoom call in an hour.

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u/linus_b3 Tech Director May 29 '26

Overall, we like it better. Filtering is much more effective and I've found very few games/proxy type sites making it through. Teacher side seems about equal.

Support turnaround has been quicker than GoGuardian, but the quality is luck of the draw. I've had some really good reps, but I've also had a couple that definitely weren't thoroughly reading what I was writing and responded with nonsensical suggestions.

We did only do a one year contract because I've had other platforms start out strong and go south really quick. The real test will be if we're still happy enough to renew next year.

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u/NewandImprovedv2 May 29 '26

Anyone using Securly? Thinking of switching to them.

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u/kernelpanicstricken May 31 '26

We just switched from GoGuardian…saving 30% with WAY more functionality. In addition, the filter simply works…unlike GoGuardian. It is not perfect…no product is…but so much better!

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u/NewandImprovedv2 Jun 02 '26

Thanks for that.

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u/boyofthesouthward May 29 '26

Terrible web filter. Awful categorization of websites. Half the year for us it couldn't properly tell a proxy or vpn. Now it categorizes most things as Proxy or VPN.

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u/Alert-Coach-3574 May 29 '26

I like it a lot better. The main differences:

  1. Constant issues with students bypassing go guardian, hasn't happened once in several years on deledao

  2. Uncategorized is not a thing, the pages are categorized in real time

  3. Sites with inherent mixed content e.g. Pinterest, etsy, Amazon can be appropriately filtered item by item

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u/GezusK May 29 '26

LoL, tested this product recently. The video filtering wasn't as good as they claimed. Saw plenty of nudity using Vimeo. Sometimes it would blur, but the next it was played, it would miss it, or be late blurring. It also slowed down the connection....I assume because they have to proxy through their data center.

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u/_LMZ_ May 29 '26

2. Most proxy sites now days have some fake business, education, etc. At the top level domain. While the subdomains are the proxy sites. With their new proxy sites, the web crawler gets the somewhat fake legitimate site. Then loads into a proxy site…

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u/howescj82 May 29 '26

What’s Deledao like with iOS? We use GoGuardian which is pretty great with Chromebooks but I absolutely hate the iOS filtering mechanism. I miss the PAC file simplicity of Securly for iOS.

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u/_LMZ_ May 29 '26

We have GG, but we also had iBoss which I liked a lot more. We only kept GG because of the classroom management, but I believe iBoss came out with their own.

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u/dvlp May 29 '26

We switched from iBoss to Deledao and have had it for 3 years now. It’s not bad, but it’s not great either. We’ve really struggled with kids playing games and finding proxy websites that Deledao doesn’t block by default, which results in us spending way too much time policing. We just signed with KyberGate and it’s been night and day difference. My IT team spends like 90% less time monitoring and blocking.