Minus-Minus goes on your child’s phone or tablet. You turn on the categories of internet you do not want reaching them, and the websites, in-app content, and channels on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Twitch in those categories stop arriving.
Early access opens in waves.
A site in a category you turned on is refused before the request leaves the device. Search on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and YouTube is held in its restricted mode.
An app the filter cannot see into can be blocked whole. So can the second browser a child installs to get around the first.
On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Twitch. A channel in a category you turned on is blocked inside the app and kept out of the recommendations.
Each one is set per device, not per account. The kitchen tablet and the school phone can carry different rules.
Whether blocks are happening and when the device last synced. The day log shows the hours the filter was reporting, the hours it had no connection, and the hours your child turned a permission off, removed the app, or the data could not come through.
If the day’s activity suggests your child may need help, with mental health, bullying or an inappropriate relationship, you are told the kind and the day.
A device, a name, its switches. Your child’s age and sex if you choose to give them. Nothing else.
Five on Standard, ten on Techies. Early access opens in waves, and we write once, when yours does.