How GuardianBlock works.
Your keyholder holds ongoing approval authority for sensitive changes through their own authenticated account. There is no reusable unlock password to hand over.
Decide while you're thinking clearly. Let it hold later.
Install the GuardianBlock app on Windows
Download the signed installer and run the guided setup — a normal Windows install with the usual UAC prompt. No terminal, no registry editing.
Choose an accountability partner — your keyholder
Invite someone you trust to hold the key: a spouse, parent, sibling, friend, or counsellor. They accept in their own authenticated account and use MFA for approvals, so both of you opt in.
Set what's off-limits
Gambling is the flagship block. You can also add Custom Blocks — the sites you have personally decided are off-limits.
Your partner authorizes sensitive changes
Day to day, GuardianBlock runs on its own. Sensitive changes — like removing a block — become a request your keyholder sees and decides on, instead of a quiet one-click toggle.
Three parts working together, reporting health.
GuardianBlock is a local app on Windows 11, not a network filter. Each part is designed to report whether protection is in place, and each browser integration is tested and documented browser by browser.
A local Windows service
Runs quietly in the background and keeps your policy applied. It reports whether protection is healthy — in place, offline, or needing attention — so a problem doesn't pass unnoticed.
A tray status indicator
A small tray app shows protection status at a glance. It is a status light, not a switch: it has no disable, uninstall, or bypass controls.
Browser integrations
Integrations for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox apply your policy in the browser and report health. Coverage is described browser by browser, tested and documented for each — never assumed everywhere.
When you want something allowed, your partner decides.
There is a bounded way to ask for an exception, and gambling sites stay off the table by design.
You request an exception
Hit a site you think should be allowed? Send an Emergency allow request from the app, with the specific site and your reason.
Your partner is notified
Your keyholder receives the request — the site and the reason you gave — not a feed of your browsing history.
It's approved when the policy allows it
An exception can be approved when the active policy classifies that site as eligible. Your partner's yes is required, and it stays bounded by the policy you both set up.
Gambling sites in the strictest category cannot be opened through a temporary exception, even with your partner's approval.
Real friction, honest limits.
Three things worth knowing before you set it up.
It leaves your network alone.
GuardianBlock works inside Windows and your browsers. It does not alter DNS, VPN, firewall, proxy, or network-drive settings. It protects the person who installs it — it is not a network filter for a household or a workplace.
No DNS, VPN, or firewall blockingTurning it off is a deliberate act.
A deactivation request goes to your keyholder, waits out a cooling-off period, and needs a signed single-use authorization before anything is removed. The strength here is the keyholder relationship you chose.
Limits and recoveryFriction and accountability, not magic.
You set it up while thinking clearly so a calmer decision still gets a say in a harder moment. It adds real friction and brings a person you trust into the loop.
Set it up in a calmer moment.
Choose your keyholder, then set it up together.