Yes — you're the administrator of your own machine, and we won't pretend otherwise. Uninstalling is the accepted escape hatch. The point is that you can't bypass it quietly: tampering with the hosts file is auto-repaired and reported, stopping the service triggers a "protection is down" message to your buddy, and launching Tor Browser is reported too. The deterrent is social, not technical — and in practice that's what works.
Everything that weakens protection: removing a site, disabling a category, pausing, and deleting a block schedule. Everything that strengthens it — adding sites, keywords, categories, schedules — is instant (your buddy is notified of changes either way).
Only limits on adding things: unlimited custom sites (free plan includes 10), recurring block schedules, and accountability reports. Premium never affects enforcement. If your subscription lapses or the license file disappears, every existing block, schedule, and setting keeps working exactly as before — expiry can only stop you adding new premium config. There is no way to pay, cancel, or expire your way past a block.
Everything runs locally on your machine. No accounts, no telemetry, no server of ours ever sees your browsing. Telegram messages go only to the buddy you chose, sent from your own Telegram account. The optional license check is a signature verified locally; while a subscription is active the app periodically fetches a renewed key — that request contains your subscription id and nothing about your browsing.
Without it, blocked HTTPS sites would show a scary connection error instead of your block page. The CA is generated on your machine at install (the private key never leaves it, readable only by root/Administrator) and the daemon only signs certificates for domains that are already blocked and pointed at your own computer — it cannot intercept real traffic. Uninstalling removes it.
Cancel any time via the customer portal — premium features stay active until the end of the paid period, and your blocks are never affected. Something wrong with billing? Email kuzminivan2004@gmail.com.
Yes, MIT-licensed. The premium gate is honor-system by design — if you can patch it out, you could also just uninstall. Paying supports development. Source on GitHub.