Being someone's accountability partner.
Someone you care about has decided certain sites are off-limits for them — starting with gambling — and they have asked you to help them hold that line. As their keyholder, you are the accountability partner who authorizes sensitive changes through your own authenticated account and can receive protection-health alerts. You are support, not surveillance.
What a keyholder actually does.
GuardianBlock only works because two adults agree to it. The protected adult sets up their own protection; you hold the one part they deliberately chose not to control alone.
Authorize sensitive changes
Review requests to change Custom Blocks or grant eligible temporary access. During the agreed commitment, ordinary early deactivation requires your approval and at least 24 hours of cooling-off. Support and safety recovery remain available; after the commitment, a separate self-deactivation path applies.
Receive request and tamper alerts
When they ask for an exception the active policy allows, the specific request and the reason they wrote come to you. If protection is paused, removed, or interfered with, you can be alerted where the device leaves evidence of it.
Be the steadier voice
You are the version of their decision that is still there when the urge arrives. Mostly that means doing nothing — and, once in a while, saying a calm and honest no.
The important moments are designed to ask for a second factor.
Authorizing a change or stepping protection down is meant to be deliberate. These actions are designed to require a fresh sign-in and multi-factor authentication, so a sensitive change cannot be pushed through on a borrowed or unattended session.
You hold the line — you do not watch them.
GuardianBlock is built so a keyholder gets exactly what they need to help, and nothing that would turn the relationship into monitoring.
Whether protection is healthy
Across their device: protected, offline, or needs attention — so you know the safeguard is actually running.
Explicit exception requests
The specific site they asked to reach and the reason they chose to write — and only when they choose to send it.
Accountability alerts
A heads-up where the device leaves evidence that protection was paused, removed, or interfered with.
Custom sites they chose to block
The domains and categories they deliberately added, so you can review changes. A declared block is not evidence that they visited the site. You can propose a new block; they decide whether to accept it.
You never see their browsing history, the sites they visit, their searches, their keystrokes, or their screen. There is no activity feed, and there is not meant to be one. If your goal is to monitor someone, GuardianBlock is the wrong tool — and that is on purpose.
What being a keyholder is not.
You are not a monitor
You see protection health, accountability alerts, declared Custom Blocks, and requests and decisions. You do not receive a browsing-history feed or a default alert for every blocked visit attempt.
You do not operate their device
There is no console where you reach across and run their machine. GuardianBlock does not give a keyholder a way to operate, lock, or wipe someone else's computer.
You do not remove protection for them
During the agreed commitment, you approve or deny ordinary early-deactivation requests. Support and safety recovery, and the separate self-deactivation path after the commitment, remain available. You do not remotely uninstall protection, and protection-health changes are reported to you where evidence exists.
Who makes a good keyholder.
The right person is someone the protected adult trusts to be steady and discreet — and who is willing, once in a while, to be the one who says no.
People often choose a spouse or partner, a parent, a sibling, a close friend, or a sponsor or counsellor.
Steady, not punitive
Someone who can hold a boundary without shaming. GuardianBlock speaks adult to adult, and the right keyholder matches that tone.
Reachable
Agree together when you can check requests and what to do if you are unavailable. A pending request is not an approval, and the role does not require you to watch their browsing.
Asked openly
The strongest version of this is a direct, honest conversation: “I have decided to stop, and I would like you to hold the key by approving sensitive changes.” It is a request between adults, not a trap.
Asked to hold someone's key?
The best thing you can do next is talk with them. When GuardianBlock opens up, set it up together.