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Parental control bypass is the bigger issue here, kids will do anything to get around parental controls and Google made a promise when they set up parental cont
by vxNsr 3y ago
Parental control bypass is the bigger issue here, kids will do anything to get around parental controls and Google made a promise when they set up parental controls that it was secure and would prevent your children from accessing things you didn’t want them to. This breaks that promise.
- hobs 3y agoWhen a child is powerful enough to start taking control from you it might be time to start giving it away.
- robertlagrant 3y agoThat's true. It's also true that it might not be.
- jeroenhd 3y agoIt should be noted that once this technique makes it to the playground, every kid will learn about the magic taps that make the web available, including kids that aren't ready yet. Obviously, parents using parental control will have questions what their kids are doing for hours in the Google Settings app every day, but every kid will probably get that day or week of free browsing until their parents get suspicious. That assumes parents bother to check on the statistics made available by parental controls, of course; if nobody checks, then the kid will access the web unrestricted for years.
- newaccount74 3y agoI suspect my kid found a way to use Spotify to browse the web, because he seems to use it all day and when I ask him what he listens to he just says "stuff".
- sebzim4500 3y agoOn the other hand, what kid wants to talk to their parents about what music they listen to?
- xenophonf 3y agoWhat kid _doesn't_ want to talk to their parents about the stuff they're interested in? My kids have introduced me to some really interesting music, and vice verse.
- TillE 3y agoI shared my dad's love of like Jethro Tull and Talking Heads, but uh there was also plenty of music I wouldn't want to talk with my parents about. There are endless examples in any era of popular music.
- matan-h 3y agoI checked that, and it's actually possible : Spotify → your plan → see available plans →click on some plan → click "advertising" → find "reCAPTCHA" and click on "Google Privacy Policy"→scroll down until "google" → you get it :)
- henriquez 3y agoOr even decades
- nkrisc 3y agoI haven’t used Android in some time (and never with parental controls), but is it possible to access this view at all of you’re under parental control restrictions?
- hiatus 3y agoThis is a really strange comment for a technical message board. Is there a similar promise that there are no exploits in Android that can be used to circumvent parental controls?
- jeroenhd 3y agoThere are web views in all manners of apps and tools. No parental controls are watertight. While I can see your hesitations, I think the solution is rather straight forward: block the Google Account settings behind parental controls. I don't think you'll want your kids logging out of their parental controlled accounts so they can create new ones anyway, so that's probably a good idea regardless of the we webview they can trick into opening Google.com. You'll find webviews inside most apps because your average weather app developer isn't really interested in preventing kids from using their privacy policy webview to access porn. I don't get it myself (why not just launch the default browser instead of adding a webview?) but I hope you'll see that these types of workarounds are not unique to Google's settings.
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