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Most parental controls run inside the browser, so a second browser walks around them. Others sit in the child's own account, where there is a switch to find. FamilyProtect filters at the DNS layer, below the browser, so one filter covers every browser, launcher and app on the PC. It runs as the system, not the child's account, so a standard Windows account has nothing to switch off. No screen time, no message reading, no keystrokes. Windows PCs. $5.99 a month covers every PC. 14 days free.
FamilyProtect started with a pattern I kept seeing in real households (my own included). A parent sets up a filter in Chrome, feels relieved, and a week later the child is on Edge, or a portable browser off a USB stick, or a game launcher pulling in whatever it likes. The parent did not fail. The tool only ever covered one door in a house full of doors.
So this filters at the DNS layer instead, below the browser. Every app looks a name up before it connects, so filtering that lookup covers all of them at once. It also runs with system privileges rather than inside the child account, which means a standard Windows account has nothing to switch off. Those two properties together are the whole product.
What it deliberately does not do: read messages, log keystrokes, track location, or manage screen time. I did not want to build spyware with a friendly logo. You get enforcement you choose, plus a plain-language report of what got blocked, sorted so the serious things stand out from the noise.
Windows focused.
Setup steps that feel obvious to me still trip up real parents, and filtering categories that look right on paper miss edge cases in the wild. If you try it, what I most want to hear is where it confused you.
Happy to answer anything about the DNS approach or the privacy boundary.
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About Get Family Protect on Product Hunt
“Windows parental controls kids can't switch off”
Get Family Protect was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #86 on the daily leaderboard. Most parental controls run inside the browser, so a second browser walks around them. Others sit in the child's own account, where there is a switch to find. FamilyProtect filters at the DNS layer, below the browser, so one filter covers every browser, launcher and app on the PC. It runs as the system, not the child's account, so a standard Windows account has nothing to switch off. No screen time, no message reading, no keystrokes. Windows PCs. $5.99 a month covers every PC. 14 days free.
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Jamie Ede
Hi Product Hunt,
FamilyProtect started with a pattern I kept seeing in real households (my own included). A parent sets up a filter in Chrome, feels relieved, and a week later the child is on Edge, or a portable browser off a USB stick, or a game launcher pulling in whatever it likes. The parent did not fail. The tool only ever covered one door in a house full of doors.
So this filters at the DNS layer instead, below the browser. Every app looks a name up before it connects, so filtering that lookup covers all of them at once. It also runs with system privileges rather than inside the child account, which means a standard Windows account has nothing to switch off. Those two properties together are the whole product.
What it deliberately does not do: read messages, log keystrokes, track location, or manage screen time. I did not want to build spyware with a friendly logo. You get enforcement you choose, plus a plain-language report of what got blocked, sorted so the serious things stand out from the noise.
Windows focused.
Setup steps that feel obvious to me still trip up real parents, and filtering categories that look right on paper miss edge cases in the wild. If you try it, what I most want to hear is where it confused you.
Happy to answer anything about the DNS approach or the privacy boundary.