Norton Family

Norton Family helps you protect your kids so they can enjoy the Internet safely.

What is Norton Family?

Norton Family is a Chrome extension that aids parents to monitor their children's internet activities, promoting safe internet use. The essential pre-requisite for its operation is the installation of Norton Family product on the user's device. This extension uses specific permissions to monitor child web activities, display customized block web pages, navigate back to the previous page, and communicate between the extension and the desktop application.

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Extension stats

By: NortonLifeLock Inc

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Users: 90,000+

Rating: 2.58 (262)

Version: 3.9.0.17 (Last updated: 2023-07-17)

Creation date: 2020-05-05

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

tabs
webNavigation
nativeMessaging
declarativeNetRequest
scripting

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 60.73K

Email: DL*****@nortonlifelock.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 2872 ▼ 23

Other rankings

#10611 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 2 #1 in family keyword 16 ▲ 4 #68 in child keyword 4 ▼ 1 #186 in activity keyword 20 ▲ 18

Other platforms

Norton Family (v3.9.0.17)

3.19

(16) 1,567+

Norton Family (v3.9.0.17)

2.20

(21) 72,304+

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Extension summary

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If you are a Norton Family user, you’ll need to install this extension to continue monitoring your child’s activity on Google Chrome. It gives you insights into their online activities so you can start a conversation about responsible online behaviors. Installing this chrome extension does not install Norton Family product on your windows device. Norton Family has to be installed separately and is a pre-requisite for this extension to work.

This add-on uses permissions that produce the following Chrome messages to perform necessary functions within the add-on.

“Read and change all your data on the website you visit” Shown for permissions needed to monitor child web activities and also to display customized block page for websites that are not allowed as per the house rules configured by the parent.

“Read your browsing history” Shown for permissions needed to go back to the previous web page from customized block page.

“Communicate with cooperating native applications” Shown for permissions needed to communicate between the extension and the desktop application.

This add-on also uses permissions that are not displayed in Chrome to perform necessary functions within the add-on:

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Effective at blocking inappropriate content when set up correctly
Provides parental control features
Useful for monitoring children's online activity

Cons

Blocks essential websites like Gmail, Google Docs, and educational resources
Inconsistent performance with frequent glitches and crashes
Overly restrictive, leading to frustration for users attempting to do schoolwork or access games

Most mentioned

Blocks too many websites
Difficult to adjust settings for specific needs
Causes significant interruptions to academic-related tasks

Recent reviews

Outstanding app! It takes some tweaking to get it just right for the blocking setting you want, but once you do, it does an amazing job. The one star reviews are most likely from someone just setting basic blocking and not tweaking it when it blocks something necessary. Just like anything else, it takes active participation, not passive.

Jason Burton, 2024-08-10

Very inconsistent. Blocks me from accessing websites, but is unable to send requests to unblock. Crashes on itself. Unable to complete academic-related research.