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Those are very annoying and dangerous. Glad Youtube is doing something. If you have young kids, be careful on what you allow on their devices (ipads, xbox, iph
by rmdoss 9y ago
Those are very annoying and dangerous. Glad Youtube is doing something.
If you have young kids, be careful on what you allow on their devices (ipads, xbox, iphones, etc).
Just the other day, I noticed a young kid (~9yo) watching some type of porn on an iPad, while the parents were paying attention the other kid play softball. I told the mom and she freaked out.
What I am doing for my own kids lately:
-Enable Parental control on their devices, so they can't install, delete or modify any the apps.
-Force a Family Filter through DNS: OpenDNS, Norton, CleanBrowsing ( Lately I have been using CleanBrowsing - https://cleanbrowsing.org https://cleanbrowsing.org - as it enforces SafeSearch + Safe Youtube by default.
-Disable Flash & Java.
-Install an adblocker.
-Check their browser histories from time to time to see whats up. They are all pretty young (under 10), so didn't learn how to clear history yet. I wish there was a way to prevent cleaning up history on the ipad.
Any other things I might be missing?
- gizmodo59 9y agoI would rather give them something else to do instead of going through so many control measures for internet access (Not saying it should be banned). There are so many things they can learn without internet and so many things they can learn with just computer and no internet too.
- rmdoss 9y agoMe too. But easier sad, than done. At least for us.
- remarkEon 9y agoI don’t have kids yet (on the horizon) but my plan is to do what my father did to me: make me play outdoors as much as possible. They will learn programming, but on a machine I set up and control. Hopefully Boy Scouts can Bridge the gap.
- jacobush 9y agoPlease do that. And do, i.e. don't just have that ambition now, which will easily whither in the wee hours of the night. Prepare beforehand so you are equipped to execute your plan when the day comes. Plan days off or whatever it takes to make your plan a reality.
- gkfasdfasdf 9y agoThanks for your comment. I have been using opendns family filter,but I didn't know about clean browsing.org. The safe search enforcement via DNS looks handy. I will consider switching. Looks like they block Reddit too.