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 person who authorizes sensitive changes and can be alerted if protection is interfered with. 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
When they want to loosen what is off-limits or step protection down, that change is routed to you for a yes or no. It is not a switch they can quietly flip in a weak moment.
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.
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 no-go sites they added themselves, so you can review a request to remove one.
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.
Consent runs both ways.
Nobody is enrolled as a keyholder without agreeing to it. The protected adult invites you, and you accept in your own signed-in session after reading what the role does and does not include. Either side can step back — you can decline, and the person who invited you can withdraw the invitation.
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
They will get the occasional request or alert and can respond within a reasonable time.
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.” It is a request between adults, not a trap.
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.
What being a keyholder is not.
You are not a monitor
You do not get a window into their day. You see protection health and the requests they choose to send you — nothing else.
You do not operate their device
There is no console where you reach across and run their machine. GuardianBlock does not hand a keyholder a way to operate, lock, or wipe someone else's computer.
You cannot make removal impossible
Keyholder approval adds real friction and accountability, not a hard barrier. A local administrator can ultimately remove or bypass installed software — and if that happens, protection health changes and you can be alerted.