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liveA privacy-first family-safety suite — Chrome extension and Android app — that filters on-device rather than routing children's traffic through a server.
- Role
- Product and engineering lead
- Period
- 2024 – present
- Link
- Chrome Web Store
Parental-control products overwhelmingly work by intercepting a child's browsing at a vendor server. That converts a safety tool into a surveillance pipeline holding minors' browsing history — a category of data no small vendor should hold.
Deliver credible content filtering, enforced SafeSearch and tamper resistance without the vendor ever seeing a URL, across two platforms with entirely different security models.
- Built filtering to run on-device, so browsing data never leaves the user's machine and the product has no minors' browsing database to breach or subpoena.
- Implemented PIN-locked settings and tamper resistance so the control cannot simply be switched off by the person it applies to.
- Shipped a Manifest V3 Chrome extension under the restricted permission model, plus a one-click Focus Mode for distraction blocking.
- Built the Android app on VpnService for system-wide filtering, and moved it onto a Google Play organisation account — the classification Google requires for VPN-class apps.
- Consolidated three overlapping product names into one brand, accepting a short-term ranking hit for long-term clarity.
Weekly active users are still in single digits, and the rebrand cost visibility while search ranking rebuilt. The distribution signal that matters is not raw install count — it is that two thirds of installs land on ChromeOS, which is what a K-12 fleet looks like. That is the channel I am now pursuing deliberately.