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by Tmtrains

Hey, so my last review got taken down or something. No worries, I’m back to tell you about exciting new feature these amazing developers put into this app.

Remember when if you’re looking through your kid’s activity and you see something to block and you couldn’t block them from there? You had to remember some sketchy website name and hoped you typed it in correctly after going through a million screens to get there.

People they solved it. Kind of.

Ok not really. You still can’t block a site from the activity feed because, come on that’s too hard.

Now, you can copy the website name to the clipboard.

Yeah. That’s it. That’s the only improvement this app got.

It’s still a flaming dumpster fire of bad UI and really terrible filters that literally even a 12 year old can bypass.

On top of that, they’ve totally broken parent blacklists and whitelists. A trying to change these lists is just an invitation to watch a spinner for 30 seconds and get a timeout error message.

Useless.

This app is so bad because parents aren’t who they sell to. We’re not Securly’s customers, so they have this app made by the lowest bidder.

They sell to your district’s IT dept. If you’re also tired of dealing with this trash app, let your district board know. They’re the only people Securly cares about.

by Hebehehebhehehe

this is the most creepy, disgusting thing i’ve ever seen. this should NOT be used on high schoolers! my parents and I think this is a disgusting controlling app. I have no respect for anyone’s parents who use this. If you’re worried about your child considering suicide, get them a bloody therapist. The audacity of this app is insane, honestly. I’m telling any parent reading this right now, controlling parents lead to sneaky kids. Every friend I have with strict parents are the most sneakiest, daring, rule-breaking people I’ve ever met. Let your child grow up without too many restrictions because that is how they learn. without strict parents I am more successful, smart, and independent than my friends who have helicopter parents. Seriously. Get a life <3

by Denver Mom Of Two

The app sound good. Last year it worked better, but this year it doesn’t block anything on the blocked lists. It’s incredibly difficult to add things to the blocked list—you have to list each website individually and correctly, yet nothing will be blocked. The activity feed still shows use of the exact apps on the blocked list. Now the only thing I can use this for is to shut down my kids school chromebooks when I’m not home. As a single mom who has to work, this makes it so they can’t do homework unless I’m home. Utterly useless and a waste of time. I’ve tried asking for help from support with no response.