👨👩👧 For Parents
Which app
do you want
to secure?
No lengthy article — straight to the settings that actually protect your child. Choose an app and get the most important steps explained concisely.
How does this work? Each app tile leads to a compact overview: the top risks at a glance, a step-by-step settings guide, and the most common tricks children use to bypass safety measures. Those who want more will find a link to the full research article.
Select an app
Roblox
Open gaming platform with 144M users — 40% of them under 13.
Grooming by adults via chat
Unnoticed purchases via Robux
Extremist groups & recruitment
↗ Full Research
Snapchat
"Disappearing" messages — but location, facial data and AI chats stick around.
Snap Map: real-time location to metre accuracy
My AI permanently stores all chats
Biometric facial data collected via filters
↗ Full Research
TikTok
15–20 child deaths linked to challenges. Internal documents show TikTok knew — and did nothing.
Suicide content served to 13-year-olds within 2.6 minutes
100% leakage when fetishising minors
Keystrokes harvested via in-app browser
↗ Full Research
YouTube
$170M COPPA fine, casino algorithm, Elsagate — and 85% of German teenagers watch daily.
Rabbit-hole algorithm reaches harmful content in 2 clicks
Elsagate: disturbing content disguised as children's videos
70% of views driven by algorithm — not user choice
↗ Full Research
Fortnite
$520M FTC fine, 8+ documented grooming cases — and voice chat as a gateway for offenders.
Grooming via voice chat & friend requests
Manipulative V-Bucks mechanics & purchase pressure
Extremist content on user-created maps
↗ Full Research
Minecraft
Age rating 6+, but thousands of unmoderated servers — and the difference between Bedrock and Java is crucial.
Unmoderated third-party servers with no age checks
Grooming via server chat & YouTube channels
Anarchy servers (2b2t) with Nazi propaganda
↗ Full Research
Instagram
Meta's own research: 1 in 3 teenage girls develops body image problems through Instagram.
Algorithm actively amplifies diet & body image content
Meta knew since 2019 — and concealed it
DMs from strangers allowed by default
↗ Full Research