"Bark for Chromebooks" is an advanced monitoring app designed to help parents oversee their child's online activities on their Chromebook. It uses algorithms to detect potential issues such as bullying, predators, and inappropriate content while providing real-time location tracking and site-blocking features. By utilizing a VPN service, it monitors internet traffic, ensuring your child stays safe online. Bark aims to create trust between parents and children with proactive alerts and essential monitoring tools.
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Bark uses advanced algorithms to detect and proactively alert parents to issues your family faces online, such as bullying, predators, sexual content, and more. You can stay on top of your child's location using our real-time map or location check-in features. We also monitor social media and also block access to specific web sites and harmful categories while only alerting you to potential problems. Bark's approach saves parents valuable time and helps build trust between families.
Using our check-in feature, you can simply press a button to send your current location to your parent. This offers you peace of mind that your child has made it safely to their destination.
To do this, the Bark app will need access to photos/videos, contacts, the list of installed apps on the device, and browsing history. We use Accessibility to monitor your child's third-party message data.
Additionally, we use a VPN service to monitor your child's internet traffic for harmful content even when the app is not in use. Bark collects read and write call log data to enable contact monitoring even when the app is not in use
User reviews
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Pros
Provides safety measures for online activities
Helps parents monitor their children's digital footprint
Cons
Invades children's privacy
Sends excessive notifications to parents
Blocks apps without permission
Creates distrust between parents and children
Consumes a large amount of data
Most mentioned
Lack of privacy and constant monitoring
Increased tension between parents and children
Excessive data usage by the app
Problems with app restrictions and blockages
App alerts parents for minor issues
User reviews
Bark sucks. It sucks. Take my word for it. If you have a bark phone, it's too late. You can't uninstall bark off. It tracks you. I heard from a news article that this app was used to track over 1k people! I have the 4gb plan and it's use 80%, then I used 1p%, AND IT THROTTLED THE PLAN. I can't even use GOOGLE PHOTOS. I'm trying tk get memories from 4 years ago and my mom allowed photos, yet it's still blocked! I don't think this is awesome safety for kids, it's the exact opposite.
Bark is terrible. Bark looks at everything in my phone.My texts, gallery,history, and even my location. My phone literally alerts me that this is dangerous for my phone numerous times. So it's not just me saying that it's dangerous. Bark, you'll probably read this. Please just kick us [me and my simbling] out of us paying the company for this. And it got my parent addicted to it, and I'm worried about them. Please 🙏.
This app is eating all my data. I was given the 4gb plan, and bark has used 80% with this app alone in 14 days, and I used 10% of it. It has been going through all my emails from school, all my apps, and flags even the most minor things.
SebiaBall, 2024-12-08
Hadasa Smith, 2024-08-28
Juliana Villano, 2024-08-19
