Why there is no uninstall lock

Uninstalling B-Simple is never obstructed. Not in the free version, not after paying, not at three in the morning. There is no device-admin lock and no extra confirmation, and it does not nag you to put it back. Everything below is why that stays true.

You cannot keep a secret from yourself

The usual way to build an uninstall lock is a password, and it does feel like a wall on the day you set one, which is part of why people keep asking for it.

Except you chose it. Who is it keeping out? A password you set yourself is a three-second step sitting in front of a wait measured in tens of minutes. It is the weakest control in the app while feeling like the strongest, and that gap is where the harm is: someone who trusts the password stops respecting the wait, and the wait was doing the work.

A password is only ever a wall when a second person holds the key. That is a different kind of help, built on a relationship, and it is not what this app is. A password you hold yourself is a lock you are also carrying the key to, which is a different object from a lock, however similar the two of them feel on the day you set one.

People already build this for themselves, and it traps them

In the same forums, next to the requests for uninstall protection, there is a home-made version. One person describes it plainly: “The ones that couldn't be deleted, I changed their passwords to randomly generated passwords without saving them.” That is what a self-set lock becomes when somebody takes it seriously.

Picture the person who does it properly, setting a password they cannot recall and then not writing it down anywhere. There is no account here and no server, so there is nobody they can ask and nothing anyone can reset for them, and what they have built is not an app that is harder to remove but an app that is permanent, on a phone they own, with no way back to it.

So the one feature that could make this app a trap, in the ordinary sense of a thing you cannot get out of, is the same feature people ask for when they want it to take them seriously. That is why it does not exist here, and why it will not be added later.

The arithmetic

Uninstalling an app takes about a minute and B-Simple's shortest wait is ten, which means that lifting a block is slower than removing the whole app, and that is on purpose rather than an oversight. Nothing here is trying to beat you at your most determined, because nothing that runs on a phone you own is able to.

What the wait governs is the in-app switch and the deleted rule, the things people do without quite having decided to. Those are the paths that fail people, and the wait sits on all of them.

People sometimes ask for a seventy-two hour wait before a blocker can be removed. Seventy-two hours is not a pause, it is three days of being told no by a phone you own, and it holds hardest on the person who had a good reason to want out of it - which is the person any of this was supposed to be for.

One thing that is different here

Many blockers are built on Android's Accessibility permission, and the common way people get past them is to switch that permission off in Settings, which takes seconds and stops the blocker seeing anything. B-Simple is not built that way, because it filters DNS through Android's VpnService instead, which means that particular route out simply does not exist here.

That is the whole of the claim. Turning off the VPN still works, and so does uninstalling, and neither is obstructed. If the VPN is switched off, the app tells you afterwards, with the time it stopped.

What you get instead of a lock

The wait, which you choose when you set up, anywhere from ten minutes to an hour. Making it longer takes one tap, and making it shorter means sitting through the wait you already have before the change applies, which is the same journey as lifting a block.

Your own words, shown back to you before the wait even starts, then a phrase to type at the end of it, and a site that relocks itself fifteen minutes after you open it without needing you to remember.

None of that stops you doing anything. It slows you down at the one point where being slowed down is the help you were asking for when you set it up, and the door stays open the whole way through.

A lock would decide for you. The wait leaves the deciding with you, and that is the thing worth strengthening. If you need this, keep it. Strengthen your volition.

How it works shows the VPN running, on video. Why blockers stop working is the longer version of the argument above.