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. You set one, and it feels like a wall.

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 with the key left in it.

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: set a password you will not remember. People do this. It is what a self-set lock becomes when somebody takes it seriously.

Picture the person who does. They set a password they cannot recall and do not write it down. There is no account and no server, so there is nobody to ask and nothing to reset. They have not made the app harder to remove. They have made it permanent, on a phone they own, with no way back.

The one feature that could turn this app into a trap is the one that looks most like care. That is why it does not exist, and why it will not be added later.

The arithmetic

Uninstalling an app takes about a minute. B-Simple's shortest wait is ten. Lifting a block is slower than removing the app, and that is on purpose. The app is not trying to beat you at your most determined, because nothing running on the phone itself can.

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 your own phone, and the person it holds hardest is the one who needed out.

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. It filters DNS through Android's VpnService, so that route does not exist.

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. You choose it when you set up, from ten minutes to an hour. Making it longer takes one tap. Making it shorter means sitting through the current wait first, the same as lifting a block.

Your own words, shown back to you before the wait starts. A phrase to type at the end. A site that relocks itself fifteen minutes after you open it.

None of it stops you. It slows you down where slowing down helps, and the door stays open.

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.