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Croton - Decide what reaches your family’s screens

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Block malware, ads, adult sites and gambling on every device, and put social media and games on a schedule. Croton works at the DNS level, so it covers every app with nothing to install. $3.99/month for the whole family.

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One of the channels I follow posted a short of a cute dog wrestling with its octopus toy. I opened it and liked it, and before I knew it, an hour had passed. I've been through that cycle enough times that I decided to do something about it. Croton is a DNS-based web filtering service. DNS blocking isn't a new idea, but with Croton I've tried to make blocking and scheduling simple and hide the technical details, so anyone can use it, for themselves or for their kids. Of course, Croton isn't a magic bullet, and it won't undo years of doomscrolling at the flip of a switch. The idea is to give you the tools to build a blocking muscle, an antidote to doomscrolling. Big tech gave us doomscrolling and took control of our time. Blocking is how we take it back. What you get: 🛡️ Always-on protection: almost 800,000 malware, phishing, ad, tracker, adult and gambling domains, blocked in every app. ⏰ Schedules: social media, gaming, streaming, dating and AI chatbots are allowed only in the hours you pick, like after school or weekend afternoons. 👨‍👩‍👧 A profile per person: a child’s tablet and a parent’s laptop get different rules on the same Wi-Fi. ✅ Exceptions: always allow the school site a category would catch, or block single site 📊 Stats and a query log: see what each device tried to open and what was blocked. There's nothing to install: setup takes about two minutes per device on Android, iPhone, Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome or Firefox. Croton only sees the domain names a device looks up, and logs are deleted after 30 days. It's $3.99/month for unlimited devices, with a 7-day free trial and no card needed. I'd love your feedback. Let me know if there's anything you particularly liked or didn't like. Thanks!