Helpful Tools to Avoid Online Porn

A Freedom Fight software review.

Before we get into the analysis of various tools on the market to help avoid online porn, it will, first, be helpful for us to work through the following grids in order to understand what you are looking for in your search for software that can assist your journey.

If you are currently going through the process of recovery, the single best thing you can do to ensure you do not have access to porn is to whitelist your mobile device. Whitelisting your phone means only allowing your phone to access approved websites. This is the best way to remove any access to porn. We have created a helpful resource with screenshots for you to do so at How to Lock Up Your iPhone and Android.

Typically those seeking out these tools fall somewhere into one of the following groups. Which of these camps you fall into, will help determine what tools will best serve your needs:

• Freedom Seeker

  Someone at the beginning or right in the middle of an ongoing battle for freedom from porn and currently in need of all the help they can find.

• Freedom Fighter

  Someone who is walking in freedom, and sees the value of ongoing accountability to help develop and maintain safe internet habits. 

• Concerned Spouse/ Friend

  Someone seeking tools and information on behalf of another whom you care about and is struggling with porn.

• Concerned Parent

  Someone seeking tools on behalf of their child in order to protect them from seeing online porn.

Covenant eyes is by far the largest market shareholder for accountability software. It offers both screen accountability and has partnered with Cleanbrowsing to filter and block designated websites from being accessed. Covenant Eyes also excels in providing a wide range of customer support via email, chat, and phone to ensure your software is working when you need it.

• KEY FEATURES

   Screen accountability. Covenant Eyes continuously captures screenshots of your phone at random, analyzes them, and sends blurred images to your accountability partners through email. Chiefly, this process is optimized to run in the background while having little impact on your device.

• PRIVACY

  Screenshots are blurred to protect your personal information and only shared with your chosen allies to maintain privacy.

• PROMO CODE

  freedomfight (30 days free with code.)

• LINK

   Click here to learn more.

• KEY FEATURES

  Real-time reporting lets accountability partners or parents to engage in healthy dialog right away, and even helps prevent a relapse from happening. When a user searches a “highly objectionable” piece of content, it is flagged, and a description is sent to the accountability partners as a text or email within five minutes depending on the user’s preferred choice.

• SECURITY

  All communication between the software and Accountable2You is transmitted over TLS security. A2U does not capture screenshots and they follow the industry standard for web security.

• LINK

  Click here to learn more.

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Canopy is a parenting preventative software. Its aim is to make the internet a safer place for you and your family. This software primarily blocks and filters whole websites, inappropriate parts of nonpornographic websites, and apps. Canopy works best if you are a parent and want to protect your children. However, it can also be used for those struggling themselves if you make the “parent” account your accountability partner.

• KEY FEATURES

   Canopy has strong blocking/filtering software that is unique to its competitors. It blocks inappropriate images and videos in web browsers, replacing them with harmless white rectangles. Canopy filters all websites, but does not filter inside apps (like Snapchat and Instagram). No other parental control app can filter in apps either. Canopy does give parents the power to block any app they think isn’t right for their family. Additionally, you can set different restrictions on different devices.

  In addition, Canopy prevents sexting because it automatically scans and analyzes photos taken on the device, as well as photos that are downloaded. Before the child device downloads or sends a photo, it will need to be approved by the parent.

• PRIVACY

  Canopy maintains secure servers to protect users and they do not permanently keep or sell user data. Their website states the following, “We don’t scan your emails, text messages, phone calls, or live video. Our goal is to protect your family, not invade your privacy.

• PROMO CODE

  freedomfight (Get 30 days free and 20% off.)
  

• LINK

  Click here to learn more.

Acquiring tools for help staying away from online porn is an essential step. However, our experience shows it will not, alone, be the silver bullet for recovery from porn addiction. 

Here is a look at what a more robust journey to healing will look like.