3 ms·
It's true but I don't like how I can't filter content for my son. He's 4yo and is a little prone to act in real life like the characters in the cartoons do and
by luckydata 7y ago
It's true but I don't like how I can't filter content for my son. He's 4yo and is a little prone to act in real life like the characters in the cartoons do and I would like to at least temporarily filter things that have fighting in it (like power rangers) because he tends to fight his classmates (they like it, the teachers give us endless grief about it).
No way to do that and it seems like a pretty basic form of control that should be table stakes for a kids oriented service.
- dqpb 7y agoKeep him away from YouTube then. They have an outbreak of "kids shows" designed to corrupt and traumatize the minds of children.
- detaro 7y agoAt least you can fill a hard disk with content downloaded from YouTube quite easily, and restrict selection that way.
- jerf 7y agoYouTube with the "parent firewall" is an awesome resource. "Hey, Dad, what other kinds of carnivorous plants are there?" "Give me a sec here... no... no... no... ah, National Geographic, that'll work." "Hey Dad, what does the Earth look like from the space station?" "Hey Dad, what's a lemur?" Amazing tool. YouTube with kids wandering around on their own is scary.
- nhumrich 7y agoYes! This all day long. I want either a whitelist or blacklist for shows on netflix children accounts. Amazon prime kidtime lets you do this for their tablets (even though the feature is very hidden), and its awesome.
- ceejayoz 7y agoNetflix permits blacklisting on kids' accounts. I've very happily used it to suppress the especially inane stuff. (Account > Parental controls > Restrict specific titles)
- luckydata 7y agoThat's a sad mockery of what parental controls should look like. First of all the UI is buggy - lets you select the same content twice, so if you try removing power rangers you have to remember what you picked previously. Second it doesn't allow you to set limits by profile, I don't want to remove adult stuff from my profile or my wife's, just my kid's. Hard fail in my book.
- silversconfused 7y agoWe set up a PC with two mirrored video outputs for netflix. One goes to the TV in the living room, and another is VGA over CAT5 to a smaller monitor in the kitchen. Makes monitoring consumption easy.