No Shorts mode
Hides Shorts shelves, Shorts links, reel renderers, and Shorts watch pages.
Chrome extension
Blocks harmful videos before your child watches them.
Mom Guard is a privacy-first browser layer for YouTube and social feeds. It scores visible titles, descriptions, captions, post text, and page context locally, then hides, blurs, or logs the risky parts parents care about.
YouTube first
Keep useful YouTube. Remove the algorithm traps.
The MVP focuses on Chrome desktop because it is inspectable, parents understand the pain, and YouTube is where the value proposition is easiest to prove.
No rabbit holes
Hides the homepage feed, recommended sidebar, autoplay, comments, and live chat when parents enable focus rules.
Bandwidth saver
Turns feed media into placeholders where possible, so images and videos need an intentional click before loading.
AI feed cleaner
Uses local rules plus similarity scoring for sexual safety, violence, self-image, scams, harassment, AI companion risk, and brainrot.
Parent dashboard
Daily watch time, top channels, hidden items, risk categories, and exportable weekly summaries.
Fair block screen
Kid-facing language explains the family rule and creates space for review instead of making blocks feel arbitrary.
Privacy posture
Designed to avoid creepy surveillance by default.
Mom stores safety signals first, not every word a child reads. Parents can choose summaries only, balanced watched-title logs, or strict local logs. Snippets stay off by default and are redacted when enabled.
- Privacy mode: summaries only
- Balanced mode: watched titles, blocked content, and category summaries
- Strict mode: fuller local log for families who explicitly choose it
- No cloud upload in the MVP extension
- No ads, no selling child data, no keylogging
- Future: parent-approved encrypted sync and email summaries
Build path
From heuristic MVP to local embedding model.
1Ship YouTube controls, local watch summaries, and the current rules-plus-similarity classifier.
2Validate category language, thresholds, false positives, and parent review flows.
3Port the Go embedding work into a small JS/WASM package behind the same classifier interface.
4Add encrypted sync, multiple child profiles, approval requests, and school-managed policies.