# Beta Watch: Parental Monitoring and Control

> Parental software that monitors and controls your child's web activity. Blocks and logs websites based on websocket communication. This extension is part of Team Beta's project for CS 4310, Software Engineering I with professor Hank Stalica.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/betawatch](https://chrome-stats.com/d/betawatch)

## Overview

- **ID:** `betawatch`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Jeffrey McClain
- **Category:** privacy-security,alerts-updates,other
- **Daily users:** 10
- **Rating:** 1.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.8resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-11-14
- **Size:** 24 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/betawatch/)

## Description

Beta Watch: Parental Monitoring and Control is a Firefox add-on developed by Team Beta for CS 4310, Software Engineering I. It connects to a websocket to request blacklist, whitelist, and security level updates, blocking and logging websites accordingly. The last known blacklist is enforced if the websocket connection fails.

## Rankings

- #34,816 — Overall
- #6 — parental control

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `history`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `activeTab`
- `tabs`
- `http://*/*`
- `https://*/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/betawatch)