ParentFilter how to

Watch each tool do its job.

Five clips, each the real product doing the real thing. The film in them is Big Buck Bunny (© 2008 Blender Foundation · CC-BY 3.0) — an openly licensed short we can show you completely, which is exactly why we use it.

Programme · 5 clips

Rate a film you’ve watched

Five questions about what was actually in it — and “didn’t notice” is always an answer, stored as no answer rather than as “none”.

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Programme1 / 5

Look up a report card

What families reported and what a careful reader found — before you decide whether it’s a movie-night film at all.

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Programme2 / 5

Analyze a film you own

Pick a movie file on your computer. The page reads it here — the film is never uploaded — finds the moments worth a decision, and shows you every one.

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Programme3 / 5

The phone guide, beside any TV

The film plays on your television exactly as always; your phone runs a timer beside it and warns you before each moment — you hold the remote. A tall clip gets a phone, not a letterbox.

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Programme4 / 5

The browser extension

Automatic filtering during streaming playback: it matches the film against your guide library on your own computer, and nothing filters until you tap “Filter this film.”

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Programme5 / 5

Connecting the extension

Install it from the Chrome Web Store, then:

  1. Pin the Parent Filter icon (puzzle piece → pin).
  2. Click the icon → Connect with one tap. A ParentFilter page opens; sign in there if you aren't already, press the one button, and the extension is connected. Nothing to copy.
  3. Open a film on your streaming service, start it playing, and click the icon. If a guide exists for it, one tap filters the film.

Prefer to connect by hand? The token on your account page still pastes into the popup under "I already have an access token". Ad-supported streaming plans can't be filtered — ad breaks throw off the timing, and the extension refuses rather than filtering the wrong seconds.

Why can’t it just analyze my streaming film?

Streaming video is encrypted, and breaking that encryption is illegal — it’s the line that sank earlier filtering companies. So ParentFilter never touches the stream: guides are built from files families lawfully own, and during streaming playback the extension reads only the clock — never a single frame.

That split is also why it’s private — nothing about your viewing exists on our servers to leak — and why the shared library matters: one household analyzes a film once, and every streaming household can use those timings forever.