Someone opened every page in here, before your child did.
A search for homework where every result was opened and checked by hand. No ads, no trackers, no popups.
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79 pages opened and checked so far. Free, 15 searches a day.
Tuesday evening. Volcanoes, due on Friday.
A nine-year-old is told to research volcanoes. The first page she finds is barely about volcanoes: it is an advert with an article around it, three download buttons that download nothing, and a tracker on every one of them.
Filtering somebody else’s results does not clean that page up. Opening it does. So we open them, one at a time: we read the page, watch what it loads behind the words, and write down what we find. Only the clean ones get in.
Every result carries the date we last looked. When a page turns and the ads arrive, it leaves.
The check
Six things we look for on every page, and what it looks like when a page does not get in.
what we look for
why a page does not get in
Ad networks
a banner that reloads itself while she reads
Third-party trackers
17 other companies told she was here
Popups and interstitials
a box over the article on a phone
Fake download buttons
a download button that is not a download button
A secure connection
a page that arrives over plain http
Right for the age
words a nine-year-old cannot read alone
This is the first month
We have opened 123 pages so far. 79 of them got in and 9 did not, and you can read exactly why each one was turned down.
Searching is free, 15 times a day. The Family Pass takes that limit off every screen at home for $39, once. No monthly bill, and no ads, ever.