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1) Don't give smartphones to kids 2) Give a locked down one to a teen 3) Contact your ISP to block all the porn/gambling/illegal domains and such at DNS level
by anthk 2y ago
1) Don't give smartphones to kids
2) Give a locked down one to a teen
3) Contact your ISP to block all the porn/gambling/illegal domains and such at DNS level
4) https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts for the rest of HN users, it can be really effective if you disable DoH on most browsers
- ein0p 2y agoNone of this works if your kid’s school requires a laptop. Which in 2024 all of them do. Kids older than 10 years old can easily bypass any “parental control” you can realistically deploy. But more to the point, I’d want the companies to at least stop _targeting_ kids explicitly and take measures against Internet addiction. It goes without saying that no prohibition is going to be 100% effective.