Bark for Chrome Watchdog
Ensure health of the Bark for Chrome extensions
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1.56
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Helps parents monitor children's online activity to protect them from potential dangers.
- Functions as intended for remote monitoring, allowing parents to keep track of activities.
- Provides alerts for inappropriate content and behavior.
Cons
- Significantly invades children's privacy, leading to distrust between parents and kids.
- Blocks a wide range of content, including innocent sites and news sources.
- Creates feelings of paranoia and isolation among children, as they feel constantly watched.
- Can damage parent-child relationships by undermining mutual trust.
Most mentioned
- Invasion of privacy
- Distrust from parents
- Relationship damage between parents and children
- Handles LGBTQ+ content negatively
- Overblocking of content
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| Date | Author | Rating | Lang | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-14 |  | | en | Annoying to use and, complicated, and not worth your time. The sensitivity levels are crazy. Some have all or nothing, and some have all or severe. Not customizable enough. Would not recommend. |
| 2024-07-06 |  | | en | Seeing all of these infuriated kids ensures me that this is the right product to get. Listen kids, the world is full of pornography, demonic music, and socially engineered chaos. If your parents raised you right, then you would appreciate your parents efforts to keep you from harm. - A proud father of 5. |
| 2024-06-02 |  | | en | - The reviews on the site are fake. If you right click a profile picture and select "view in new tab", the image will unblur. Sometimes it will say "stock image" /in the URL/. And when it doesn't, you can right click again and reverse image search, which will lead you /to stock photo websites/. And if you copy + paste the reviews into Google and hit go, the reviews (which are mock FaceBook posts) won't show up, only /the bark website/. Because they aren't real posts. They don't exist on FB. - This app warns parents about /everything/. My mom keeps telling me that I don't know how Bark works and that it doesn't tell her everything I do, but it flags me going to Deviant Art, talking about Lemon Demon, saying "oh my God"(---or OMG!), saying "never gonna give you up", using the word "hot" or talking about /anything/ LGBTQ+ related. -I would like to stress /anything/ LGBTQ+ related is tagged as sexual. I had to stop watching family-friendly LGBTQ+ YouTubers who were my only source of comfort and support for my sexuality because of this extension. - Parental controls only teach kids to not trust anyone and how to do things in secret. - Kids have different views from their parents and that is okay. They shouldn't be punished for that. |
| 2023-08-28 |  | | en | absolute garbage. DONT USE!!! |
| 2024-04-15 |  | | en | This is actual garbage, my parents installed it and now I cant play Roblox, or watch Netflix. Honestly this makes no sense to have. Its a compleate invasion of Privacy. honestly made my body with my parents way worse. |
| 2024-03-10 |  | | en | It is interesting to me that all the reviews I see are from children complaining that their parents put this program on their devices. Privacy isn't a right when you are a child (under 18 yrs old). Perhaps if you conducted yourself in a way that your parents felt that you was trustworthy then they would trust you more, but maybe you do and this program is to keep you safe. Children are to trusting and lack the experience to be aware of the dangers of being online let alone out in the world. Just talking to people that you do not know personally online you are risking being hacked, and not just you but everyone on your network. When I see that they are making good choices and not putting themselves at risk Then I wont have to monitor what they do. That is why parents have to be present in their childrens lives. Completely and in everything. Unfortunately this is the world we live in. My children know that my #1 job is to protect them (from themselves and the dangers of this world), #2 is to love them, and #3 is to prepare them for the world. Not to be their friend. I can be their friend when they are on their own, supporting themselves. This generation has an idea that the have rights. They have rights to food, water, shelter, education, healthcare and not to be abused. Everything else is a privilege. |
| 2024-02-10 |  | | en | makes my paranoia worse, also doesnt help just teaches ppl how to get around it- plus totally made me isolate myself sm last time it was forced on me. If you're a parent reading this don't do this. It's a guaranteed way to NOT GET TOLD if your kid is doing something bad. Maybe instead help them trust you so they'll be able to tell you if somethings getting bad instead of this |
| 2024-01-18 |  | | en | terrible |
| 2023-07-25 |  | | absolute trash. | |
| 2023-07-25 |  | | en | absolute trash. |
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