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by leetcrew 2621 days ago
> believes her parents can see her history even if she erases it

she's not necessarily wrong if her parents are tech savvy. many routers can save recent web history if you enable it.

she could use a VPN of course.

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They aren't. She thinks they must have installed something in the computer.

To be clear, I didn't mean to imply she's wrong. She may have good reason to believe that, but I haven't inquired further, just offered to teach her to install Linux.