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Bark for Chrome

Monitor chrome web browsing for inappropriate content.

Users100KCurrent public install base

Rating1.2Store average score

Reviews151Public review volume

Manifest versionV3Extension platform version

7-day growth0Net users gained this week

7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity

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2026年7月15日2026年7月21日

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Version1.3.3

ManifestV3

Size8.82KiB

Languages1English (United States)

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Bark for Chrome is installed on the child's Chrome browser to help protect the child against inappropriate content.

Bark detects messages containing cyberbullying, sexting, signs of depression or suicidal thoughts, and many others -- without you having to spend hours reading your child's messages.

Bark supports dozens of popular social media platforms, along with email, and text messaging.

Children spend an increasing amount of time socializing online. Unfortunately, new technology creates new risks. Parents need a smarter solution to help keep their children safe online without sifting through their social media feed or randomly grabbing their child's phone and scrolling through their messages.

You connect your children's accounts and we notify you if and when there's a potential issue. This approach helps to build trust and an open dialog with your family around internet safety.

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Store average score1.2Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text

Synced text average1.2Average computed only from synced review bodies below

Reviews with text118Synced review bodies

Total ratings / reviews151Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Luci Abbott2024年5月18日

- The reviews on the site are fake. If you right click a profile picture and select "view in new tab", the image will unblur. Sometimes it will say "stock image" /in the URL/. And when it doesn't, you can right click again and reverse image search, which will lead you /to stock photo websites/. And if you copy + paste the reviews into Google and hit go, the reviews (which are mock FaceBook posts) won't show up, only /the bark website/. Because they aren't real posts. They don't exist on FB. - This app warns parents about /everything/. My mom keeps telling me that I don't know how Bark works and that it doesn't tell her everything I do, but it flags me going to Deviant Art, talking about Lemon Demon, saying "oh my God"(---or OMG!), saying "never gonna give you up", using the word "hot" or talking about /anything/ LGBTQ+ related. - Parental controls only teach kids to not trust anyone and how to do things in secret. - Kids have different views from their parents and that is okay. They shouldn't be punished for that.

Wyatt Huynh2024年2月25日

Dont Download this!!! I take perfect care of my pc and make sure to keep everything cleaned up so it doesnt run like garbage but it just keeps lagging.my google will randomly close and i cant do anything about it (┬┬﹏┬┬)

Robert Larson2024年2月3日

peice of trash

Zander Smith2024年1月11日

put on and did absolutely nothing.

john parr2023年12月17日

This is the worst extension to ever exist. It destroys your relationship with your parents completely. If your parents install this for you, please talk to them about it. It is a complete invasion of privacy and should not exist at all. If your parents get this for you, the are truly just terrible parents and don't have any trust for you. This is so messed up honestly. My parents are even looking through my computer here and there and checking discord WHERE I KEEP ALL MY PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS. They check everything. I've lost all of my friends because of this app and i can't get them back because of 1. bark and 2. being an introvert. This app is destroying me and my relationship with my parents. Google, if you see this, please take this off the chrome extension store and off google play. This app completely violates your privacy. I understand we aren't legal adults and don't have rights yet and that our parents can technically do this to us as our parent, but still. This app is so messed up. You can't curse, cant talk about anything related to mental health, violence, anything like that. I try talking to my friends about issues in my life and my depression and it gets flagged. My mom comes along and doesnt like it. Cuts off all cords with that friend. It just makes your mental health so much worse. Parents, if youre seeing this, please, just please, dont get this for your child. The only way they will learn is through experience. You cant train them for whats out there if they dont have access too it. I understand you dont want them on p_fsdfsdf_0_sfgsdfg_r_asdfsdg_n and stuff like that but theyre just kids they wont be on that stuff. Stop doing this to them. It will destroy your relationship with them and it is a terrible choice. Please dont do this to your kid. -A 6th grader with depression and messed up parents

Looking4Magic2023年12月2日

I hate this. My bond with my parents is going lower by each step because of this stupid thing. I can't have any privacy, and this app puts you in a position where you are worried about hackers and other things like that. I feel uncomfortable asking my friends to text me when they have problems, because their personal lives can be read by my parents. They keep telling me they don't look at the alerts, and yet I can feel our relationship severing. This app is a complete joke, and I can't wait to get away from my overly-invasive parents, and this overly-invasive app. This is ruining my childhood.

rayansh2023年8月5日

super bad to be honest

Spider1i1y2023年6月23日

I know I'm gonna sound like every other teenager on this app, but this sucks. I had this on my phone and after a week it was lagging. I kept restarting it, fixing my internet, it was just bark itself. It's basically a whole virus that takes over your device. Bark doesn't just monitor "sexual" material like p**n it also monitors what is considered "cyber bullying." Why should bark tell my mom that I told my bsf "Loser" or anything like that. The cyber bullying images that are shown on the Barks' website are just stupid. I have friends vent to me and I don't need some virus to notify my mother about it so she can read it too. They're my friends, not my mothers. I feel bad when I have to tell my friends that they can't vent to me because some app is going to send it to my nosy mother. This app made me lose all trust with my parents.

Vlad2023年6月19日

(1. Go into your settings, and disable bark VPN (2. Use Opera GX, it's the only browser bark cant detect on all platforms (3. Always use incognito, it will help block account association tracking (4. Your welcome.

AI product read

Parental monitoring Chrome extension that tracks children's web browsing activity and Google Gemini AI interactions, sending the data to Bark's backend for content safety analysis

Helps parents monitor their children's online activity for safety risks (cyberbullying, sexting, depression signals, suicidal thoughts) without manually reading through their messages or social media feeds

1. Parent installs Bark for Chrome on child's Chrome browser (child must be signed into Chrome with Google account). 2. Extension monitors all tab navigations and sends URL/title data to Bark's backend API. 3. Extension also intercepts Gemini AI prompts by monkey-patching XMLHttpRequest on gemini.google.com. 4. All data is tagged with the child's Chrome profile email (via chrome.identity). 5. Bark's backend analyzes content for safety concerns and notifies the parent via the Bark service/parent app.

Target users: Parents who want to monitor their children's online browsing activity / Families using the Bark parental monitoring service

Cannot verify whether Bark's backend API rejects or processes data from accounts without active paid subscriptions
The extension has a very small codebase (5 text files) which limits the surface area for hidden features
No UI code present - the extension operates silently in the background with no popup or options page

Monetization

No paid features detected

The extension source code contains no payment processing, subscription tiers, premium feature gating, billing APIs, or upgrade UI. All keyword matches for 'paid' were false positives (matching 'prototype', 'production', 'provider', etc.). The extension is a pure monitoring agent that sends browsing and Gemini prompt data to Bark's backend. Bark.us as a destination service is known to operate on a paid subscription model for parents, but the extension itself does not enforce or gate any functionality behind a paywall.

Confidence: 80
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / High
Login required: Yes
Reason: The extension uses chrome.identity.getProfileUserInfo() to retrieve the Chrome user's email address (monitor.js lines 107, 144; watchdog.js lines 29, 50). If no email is found, the extension silently returns without sending any data (monitor.js line 108, 146). This means the Chrome browser profile must be signed into a Google account for the extension to function. The email is sent as an X-Bark-Email header to Bark's backend API. The extension itself has no login UI; it relies entirely on the Chrome profile's Google account.

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Medium-risk permissions

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Publisher

Bark

Brandon Hilkert

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +19493719176
Address: 695 N Kays Drive STE 4 Kaysville, UT 84037 US

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