Plucky Filter is a self-control internet filter for people who want more distance between themselves and online temptation. You set your own boundaries, and Plucky enforces them so long-term goals win over short-term temptation.^1 In classic mode it blocks images and videos across the web. You can allow sites you trust, but the first allow, and any uninstall, waits through a delay you chose while clear-headed.^1
Fine-grain rules can block Google Images without blocking Search, or block part of YouTube while allowing your classes.^2 You can also schedule access, black out the internet, vary the delay by time of day, let someone you trust see which sites you have allowed, or ask a supporter to expedite an urgent allow instead of waiting out the delay.^2
Jon Wilkes of Single Eye Software built Plucky and has worked on it full-time since 2015.^3 His wife Kristin writes that Jon created Plucky because he needed a filter that worked for him: he had found the loopholes in other filters and could not find a reliable accountability partner, so he asked, "Can't I just get the Internet without the images?"^4 The name alludes to the pluck-eye principle in Matthew 5:27-30.^3 Why It Works grounds the delay in Romans 7-8 and says a filter cannot save anyone, but Jesus can.^5
Plucky runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, not iOS.^1 Edge and Firefox are its most supported browsers. Chrome, Brave, and Vivaldi no longer work well since they broke support for MV2 extensions, and they work only on legacy versions that can never be updated.^6 Plucky is subscription-based on a sliding scale, free where regular USD payments are unrealistic, and used in over 100 countries.^1
Users say why they stay with it:
"Of all the filters I've tried, only Plucky works for me."^1
"I'm a better husband and father because I get my work done instead of getting derailed by YouTube."^1
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