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What an alert means (and doesn't)
How to read an alert before you react to it.
Reading it
Step 1 of 4
What's in an alert
The app or site, and the text that matched a rule: a word from their keyword list, or from our built-in adult or gambling lists. Sometimes extra text from the same screen comes along with it, like a username or a caption fragment.
What it means
Step 2 of 4
Detected is not the same as typed
LeadMeNot reads what's on the screen. A matched word may have been typed or searched, or it may have been in a caption, a suggested post, a Reel, an ad or a page they scrolled past. The alert can't tell you which. That's a question for them, asked gently.
Several alerts in a row from the same app usually mean they were scrolling a feed, not searching.
False alarms
Step 3 of 4
Alerts that aren't about them
Some words on our lists match innocent things: a contact's name, a product, a word inside a longer word. If an alert looks wrong, it probably is. They can email jason@leadmenot.org to get the word removed for everyone.
Limits
Step 4 of 4
What you won't see
No link to the page, no screenshot, no history. LeadMeNot is text-based today. If you need more context, the honest route is to ask them.
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