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.
Install
Add Mom Guard to Chrome in two minutes.
Works in Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chromebook. Chrome shows a developer-mode notice on startup until Mom Guard is listed in the Chrome Web Store.
- Unzip the download into a folder you will keep, such as Documents/mom-guard.
- Open chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode.
- Choose Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.
- Pin Mom Guard, open it, and create a profile for each child. Sign in on the Family tab to use your plan.
YouTube first
Keep useful YouTube. Remove the algorithm traps.
Built for Chrome on desktop and laptops, where parents can see exactly what is installed and YouTube is where most feeds go wrong.
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, and risk categories, with an exportable report. Family Plus adds a weekly PDF.
Fair block screen
Kid-facing language explains the family rule and creates space for review instead of making blocks feel arbitrary.
Ask a parent
Your child can request a review from the block screen. You allow one page, a channel, or a whole site, or say not now.
One profile per child
Up to eight profiles, each with its own age pack, rules, logs, and requests. An optional parent PIN keeps settings locked.
Encrypted sync
Settings and approval requests sync between your devices, encrypted in the browser with your family passphrase. mom.nz cannot read them.
School and PTA codes
Schools can publish a policy code that sets categories, thresholds, and blocked sites, locked over family settings.
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
- Browsing content stays in the browser; nothing is uploaded
- No ads, no selling child data, no keylogging
- Optional sync is end-to-end encrypted with your family passphrase
How it works
Set up in five minutes. Calm from then on.
1Add Mom Guard to Chrome and create a profile for each child with an age pack.
2Risky Shorts, posts, and recommendations are ranked on-device, then hidden, blurred, or allowed.
3When something is blocked, your child can ask for a review. You approve or decline from the parent queue.
4On a Family plan, get a calm weekly summary with a conversation starter for the most common topic.