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Review summary

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Considering 344 reviews, most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many people found the website, app, and user experience to be highly problematic, frequently blocking educational content and essential websites while allowing inappropriate material to pass through. Customers also expressed significant concerns about privacy, reporting that they felt the software extensively monitored their activities and screens, leading to feelings of constant surveillance. Reviewers were also dissatisfied with the product's functionality, noting that it often slowed down devices and created a dysfunctional system. The staff's implementation of the software was also a point of contention, with many feeling that the restrictions were excessive and hindered their ability to complete schoolwork and engage in creative activities.

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Website

Users describe negative interactions with website blocking. Many reviewers report that the service blocks a... See more

User experience

Reviewers express strong dissatisfaction with the user experience, describing it as restrictive and... See more

Application

Reviewers highlight negative aspects of the app, expressing widespread dissatisfaction. Many customers report... See more

Product

Consumers find the product to be highly problematic. Many reviewers describe it as "worthless" and... See more

Staff

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Reviews shaping this summary

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

IT IS AWFUL! IT SELLS OUR DATA TO AI COMPANIES AND THEY LEAK PERSONAL STUDENT INFO! IT PREVENTS US FROM USING EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES AND LETS US PLAY GAMES! at least [redacted]'s creator finally leaked... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Securly is terrible and just spies on you. You can go on a very harmless website and its still blocked, like they banned CoolMathGames, COOLMATHGAMES. They also banned Scratch, and other Harmless webs... See more


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Why Securly Is Terrible.

It is Stupid, Even If Kids Are At Home, No Privacy, Some Teachers Use It To Outright Tell Everyone Else In The Classroom Exactly What they Are Doing, Also The Kids Never Agreed To Have Securly, It Is The Absolute Worst Thing Ever, Terrible, Would Not Recomend

31 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

invasion of privacy

Securly is absolutely horrible. An invasion of privacy, why does a child have have to go through all this verification just to use the bathroom. It gets worse, if you're out for more than just 5 minutes, you get flagged! now, maybe i'm overreacting but as a person in their first year of middleschool this feels absolutely unnessecary.

13 December 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Why Securely should change

When I MET (Making Electronics Terrible) Securly, I found some very punch-able fat gnomes that were biting on cords. This led me to wonder, why were these fat gnomes standing in between me and Youtube? I SWEAR THESE GNOMES WILL FIND YOU ANYWHERE AND GO IN YOUR WAY, I TRIED TO BREAK THEM BUT THEY ARE SOLID. RUN FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT WHILE YOU STILL CAN! Honestly, I just think that there could be a better way to block inappropriate websites. All Securely does is make kids type more bad reviews and ask their parent for a laptop. -1B stars

19 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Useless.

Its just a terrible website and extension, spies on you, takes info, and even blocks helpful stuff, and also, WHY DOES IT SPREAD THE BLOCKED PAGE TO MULTIPLE PAGES AND TABS? I was playing a game, I hadn't saved yet, and I was far in, until I searched something up on Google, that was blocked, and it spread to my game site, so now, I lost all of my work, thanks. Oh, and it turned on my camera to see what I was doing, Blatant spyware.

28 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

HELP

It was pretty bad.

No.

No, not even that's enough to describe the abomination that Securly is.

Steals information, sued by families, among other things.

The gnomes.

Dear God, the gnomes are terrifying.

I could go in-depth for an hour on the things these gnomes have done to poor, innocent children just trying to use a search engine.

I only have so much time left here...

No, no... the gnomes are down the street.

They're at the door...
No... Please, please! I didn't mean to!
I didn't know searching "How to boil a gnome" was punishable by death!

This is my last message.

Send help.

25 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

forever watching...

I don’t think Securly is just a filter.

Something is wrong with it.

It started normal enough. Maddux, Lochlan, and Caleb were in class, trying to get work done. Pages were slow. Things were blocked that shouldn’t have been. That part was expected.

But then things didn’t stay normal.

Maddux was the first to notice it. Tabs would open on their own—but only for a split second. Just long enough to see something in the corner of the screen. Something small. Watching.

Lochlan thought it was a glitch. He said Securly just bugged out sometimes. But then his screen froze, and when it came back, every tab had the same title:

**“ACCESS DENIED”**

Over and over again. Dozens of them.

Caleb tried to restart his computer. It didn’t shut down. The screen dimmed, but didn’t go black. That’s when he saw them clearly for the first time.

Gnomes.

Not the kind you’d expect. Not decorations. Not anything normal. They were… wrong. Too still when you looked directly at them. Too fast when you didn’t.

Maddux said one moved.

No one believed him—until Lochlan’s cursor stopped responding. It started moving on its own, dragging across the screen, opening blocked tabs, clicking things that shouldn’t even exist. The system logs opened for a second, just long enough to show a line that kept repeating:

**“gnome_process.active = TRUE”**

Caleb unplugged his computer.

It stayed on.

That’s when the alligators appeared.

At first it was just an image. A distorted, low-quality picture forced into the corner of the screen. Then another. And another. Every time Securly blocked something, it replaced the page with one of them. Their mouths were always slightly open. Too many teeth. The images would stretch, glitch, and then reset.

Maddux tried to close the tabs. More opened.

Lochlan covered part of the screen with his hand. He said one of the gnomes was closer than before.

Caleb stopped talking entirely. He was staring at something none of them could see.

The computers didn’t respond anymore. Not to input. Not to shutdown commands. Just Securly running in the background, blocking everything… except whatever this was.

The last thing that showed up before the screens went completely black was a message:

**“This device is protected.”**

They never figured out how to fix it.

The next day, everything looked normal again.

No gnomes. No messages. No alligators.

Just a regular school Chromebook.

Caleb logged in first. Nothing weird happened. He opened a tab, typed normally, even laughed a little.

Lochlan said maybe it was just some kind of glitch.

Maddux didn’t say anything. He was staring at the bottom-right corner of the screen.

There was a tiny notification. So small you could miss it.

It said:

**“gnome_process.active = TRUE”**

A second later, it disappeared.

Caleb shrugged and said, “At least the alligators are gone.”

And then, completely normally, his cursor moved on its own…

…and typed:

**“they were never the bad part”**

No one laughed.

Except, for just a second—

very quietly—

something else did.

22 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Securely is actually run by Donald Trump

The one good experience I have had with securely is when it lagged my laptop so much that my laptop turned into a pear. I managed to sell the movie rights to the pear and now my mother forgives me for breaking the kitchen table when I lost at fortnite. Other than that one good experience, securely tracked my search history and sold it to the Russian government. When I found out, securely kept me quiet by putting around 3495 alligators on my roof. Thankfully, my neighbour has a semi-automatic sniper rifle

11 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

READ THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I HATE SECURLY THEY CAME TO MY HOUSE AND TOOK MY COMPUTER AND SAID WHY AREN'T WE ON HERE THEN PROCCEEDED TO TAKE MY COMPUTER SAYING WE DESERVE IT YOU DON'T ALSO ARE GNOMES NEED MORE SPACE TO ATTACK THEN THEY TOOK A RABID CHICKEN AND THREW IT AT MY FACE TO FIGHT ME OFF THEN THEY PROCCEEDED TO ROB ME!!!!! TAKE EVERYTHING I HAVE AND BURN IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY EYES FUN FACT GNOMES LIKE FIRE THEY WILL BURN ANYTHING IN THERE PATH. THEN THEY WILL PUT YOU IN THERE HELICOPTER AND PUT YOU IN THE GRAND CANYON WITH YOUR HANDS AND FEET TIED BEHIND YOUR BACK AND TAPE OVER YOUR MOUTH WITH NO FOOD AND NO WATER. THEN WHEN YOU ARE SUPER SUNBURN'T AND ABOUT TO DIE THEY WILL BRING YOU TO THERE HEADQUARTERS FEED YOU AND LET YOU DO ANYTHING AND RIGHT WHEN YOU THINK IT IS OVER THEY WILL DO IT AGAIN. THEN THEY WILL TAKE YOU TO SPACE AND VAPORIZE YOU AFTER 20 YEARS OF THIS.
STAY SAFE .

23 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

There are no web players left

There are no web players left. No way to listen to my favorite music. How will this help when there are mountains of fanart lying there unblocked. This piece of software can't do anything right.

23 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Would rather download Albania Virus

Legitimately might be a worse idea than downloading a virus onto your computer. Not only is it selling my data, blocking websites I need for school, and inspiring the younger generation to accept a security state as a normal way for a society to function, but it has also made me very paranoid and suspicious of other people around me.

20 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

School is going to far ( student perspective)…

In general this application on school Chromebook’s is creepy. Going to the bathroom is a normal human thing. If us students are punished for going to the bathroom they you might as well rename the school worst then jail. The school can already see what we do on are Chromebook’s why do they need to know where my class is how long I’ve been out. If this was done to teacher the way that we’re getting treated they would get upset. I feel like the school owns my every move there. This is to far I am outraged over this.

18 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I HATE SECURLY

All it does is RUIN MY FUN AND GAMES!!!!!!! I ABSOLUTLEY HATE THIS THING!!!!!!! IT IS TRASH!!!!!! EVERYONE HATES THIS!!!!!

18 March 2026
Unprompted review

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