The one asymmetry
Making it stronger is instant. Making it weaker takes a day.
Everything else in cocloc follows from this. You are never blocked from protecting yourself harder, and on cocloc Lock you are never able to protect yourself less on impulse.
Tightening
Takes effect the moment you ask. No wait, no confirmation, no friction, ever. On both tiers.
- Add a site to the blocklist
- Turn a layer back on
- Extend the gate past 24 hours
- Bring a paused blocker back on
Loosening
The request is filed now and can only be confirmed tomorrow. You can cancel it at any point before then. On cocloc Free there is no wait: pause is instant.
- Pause protection
- Unblock a site
- Turn a layer off
- Uninstall cocloc
What is built, and what is not
How it blocks
At the network · in this build
Refused before the page loads
Blocked domains are written into the Windows hosts file, so they fail to resolve for every browser and every app on the machine, including private windows. cocloc also turns DNS-over-HTTPS off in Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox, because a browser resolving DNS inside itself would route straight around the hosts file. Nothing is decrypted. No certificate is installed.
On the screen · coming
Not in this build
Screen detection is coming: a small model on your own disk, looking for explicit content a domain list structurally misses. It is not in the product today. There is no screen capture, no model running and nothing drawn on your screen. We would rather say that here than sell you a page of it.
The blocklist that ships is 121 domains, hand-curated, plus a 15-domain never-block list for health, recovery and education. It covers the majors. It is not exhaustive, and it never will be.
Privacy
What leaves your computer
On cocloc Lock: four things, and no others.
- 01
The payment you made to buy it.
- 02
An email, if you write to support.
- 03
If — and only if — you name an accountability partner: events. “Uninstall requested at 01:14.” Partner alerts are coming, not built.
- 04
A periodic licence check: your licence key and a random install id, so we know the subscription is live.
That fourth one is not an account and not a profile. It carries nothing about what you did: no browsing, no screen, no domains you visited or tried to visit.
On cocloc Free it is one thing: an email, if you write to support. No payment, no licence check, no partner.
No screenshots. No decrypted traffic. No browsing history. Not to us, not to your partner.
Stated plainly
What cocloc will not do
Every blocker has these. Most don’t print them on the front page.
- ×It will not cover your phone, your tablet, or your work laptop.
Windows 11 desktop and laptop only. Windows 10 has never been tested. That’s a limit, and we’d rather name it than hide it.
- ×It will not stop a VPN, a raw IP address, or a browser pointed at a DNS provider we don’t cover.
Those are the three routes around a hosts file, and all three still work. We name them because you will find them anyway.
- ×It will not watch your screen. Yet.
Screen detection is coming. It is not in this build, so a feed, a timeline or a video on a site we cannot block wholesale goes through untouched today.
- ×It will not stop someone who holds their own admin account and knows what they’re doing.
You stay an administrator on your own machine. cocloc does not take that away. It makes removal slow, deliberate and logged. It does not make it impossible.
- ×It will not watch someone else’s device.
Not a parental-control tool. Different job, different software.
Free, or locked
The paid thing isn’t features.
Network blocking, a pill docked to a monitor edge, and a tray icon. You can pause it instantly from either one, whenever you like.
- Network blocking, entirely on your machine
- A pill and a tray icon
- Instant pause from either, no wait, any length
- Screen detection when it ships
Not publicly downloadable yet. Free builds go out in small batches, from the waitlist.
The same software with the part that holds: pausing, loosening and uninstalling all run through the 24-hour gate.
- Everything in Free
- The 24-hour gate on every loosening
- A gate longer than 24 hours, if you want one
- Accountability partner alerts, coming
- 14-day refund, full, no questions
Payments are not open. No processor is live yet, so there is nothing to charge you and no checkout to walk into.
It’s commitment.