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There are plenty of sensible parental controls you can put in place. You have nobody to blame but yourself.
by marknutter 13y ago
There are plenty of sensible parental controls you can put in place. You have nobody to blame but yourself.
- GotAnyMegadeth 13y agoOn them, not by them.
- bennyg 13y agoGotta' read reviews before you buy anything on the app store.
- thirdsight 13y agoI don't enforce parental controls (restrictions). They are too old for that crap. However I don't want adverts in web pages that have detected an iPad forever redirecting to the app store. Then when you switch back to safari they reload and back to the app store app again unless you are quick. It's like the bad old days of the Internet again playing banner whack a mole.
- alexpenny 13y agoThis has been a recent phenomenon, that as of yesterday started gaining public acknowledgment. http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/shady-app-install-ads-are-automatically-redirecting-mobile-users-to-app-store-google-play/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/shady-app-install-ads-are-a...
- ceejayoz 13y agoMalicious ads on ad networks are hardly a recent phenomenon.
- zequel 13y agoYou can download (free) browser apps, Terra for instance, that spoof the browser useragent (ie, firefox, another one iirc).
- ctz 13y agoYou have nobody to blame but yourself. Which is why Apple settled their class action on this subject, and as a direct result altered the appstore to mark free apps with IAP as such.
- norswap 13y agoI think you misunderstood the OP. The problem is not that his kids bought things behind his back.