EARLY ACCESS

Support.

Most problems with a blocking tool are one of three things: it blocked something it shouldn't have, it won't install, or it isn't doing something you expected it to do. Start with whichever of those it is.

Most common

Nithic blocked a site that's fine

Add the domain in Options → Whitelist. That takes effect immediately and is the fix that's entirely in your hands — reload the page afterwards.

The block page's Report False Positive button notifies your administrator, so it does something on a managed or enrolled device and nothing on a personal one. We'd rather say that than let you press it and assume it was heard.

Install

It won't install, or it disappeared

The install guide covers Chrome and Firefox separately — they differ in a way that trips people up (Chrome wants the folder, Firefox wants the manifest.json inside it).

If you loaded it unpacked and it vanished after a restart, that's Chrome's behaviour for unpacked extensions, not a crash. Keep the unzipped folder somewhere permanent — Chrome reloads it from that exact path.

Expectations

It didn't catch something

Coverage lists what we actually detect, technique by technique. It's the honest version — if something isn't on that page, we don't claim it.

We deliberately bias towards not blocking when we're unsure. A tool that cries wolf gets switched off, and an extension that's switched off protects nobody.

Accounts

Linking a device to an account

Open the extension popup and use the account link — it opens the portal in a signed-in tab and pushes a device-scoped token back. Your password never reaches the extension.

If the portal says it can't reach the extension, it's almost always the wrong Chrome profile: link from the profile Nithic is installed in.

Where your data goes

Detections are reported; clean browsing is not. Pages we never flag produce no image and no page record, and anything we do store is scoped to your own account — there is no shared pool of what people browsed.

Where a detection does capture the page, you choose what that capture looks like in Options → Cloud & Telemetry: a full screenshot, one pixelated to show layout but not text, or none at all. Worth setting deliberately rather than leaving as found — it is the one setting that decides how much of a flagged page leaves your machine.

This is early access, and some of it is genuinely new. Features marked alpha in the options page are off by default and say so where you turn them on. If something misbehaves, switching that specific toggle off takes effect immediately — you don't need to remove the extension.