Privacy and contact controls

Privacy controls let you choose how you appear and how people can contact you. Open Settings → Privacy & security → Safety to review the account choices. For what Glob Social collects, stores or shares, read the Privacy Policy.

The controls on this page change specific behaviour. They are separate from the permissions on an individual node and from choosing to make work public.

Named presence and online visibility#

Show my name beside my cursor and in presence (turn off to appear anonymous) controls named presence. It starts on for an adult who has not made a choice. Turning it off keeps your account out of named cursor presence.

Show me as online allows your name and picture in a node's online list. This starts off. Online counts can still include people who are not named in the visible list.

Choose these separately. A person can allow a named cursor without opting into an online list. Sending a chat message still identifies its author; these settings do not anonymise your posts.

See Live rooms and presence for cursors, counts and temporary join notices.

Search engines and following#

Allow search engines to index my profile and authored nodes is the permission choice for search-engine indexing. Allowing indexing does not require a search engine to include a page, and turning the setting off is not a way to make public content private.

Allow adults to follow me controls whether adult accounts may follow you when following is available. It does not start a follow, create a friendship or open a direct message.

Protected accounts have these controls locked to their protective choices. The app labels locked settings and does not accept a change that would remove the protection. See Age and safety protections.

Who can message you#

Open First-trip preferences and find Who can message me. Friends only is the default; eligible accounts can choose Anyone.

This controls new contact. A conversation already begun can remain usable after you change the setting. To stop contact from a particular person, use Block rather than relying only on the message setting. See Messages and group chats.

Blocked people is also available in Privacy & security. It lists the people you blocked and gives you an Unblock control. Lifting a block does not restore an ended friendship or follow. Blocking explains the effects.

Warnings before opening another website#

Leaving Glob warning has two choices:

• On the first visit to a new domain.
• Every visit outside known-good domains.

The first is the adult default. The second is the protected choice and is locked for protected accounts.

When the Leaving Glob sheet appears, choose Stay in Glob or Continue. Read the destination before continuing. If the warning check cannot be completed, the app can keep the link closed and offer a retry.

Reset Leaving Glob warnings clears the sites you previously confirmed. It does not change the policy you selected or remove a locked protection. The reset remains separate from the locked setting controls.

Check that a change saved#

Wait for the confirmation after changing a Safety setting. A failed save retains the last confirmed value. If Safety cannot load, use Try again; an unavailable control is not confirmation that a preference is off.

For node access, see Sharing. For visits into a dimension, see Invitations and visits. Account, export and deletion requests go to [email protected]; Keep, export and leaving explains the in-app controls.