Post #2902675

2026-01-08 03:20 UTC

It really shouldn’t be that hard to make a “block all” system. And then whitelist things you want to allow on a piece meal basis. The reason such a system doesn’t exist is because it would hurt engagement and monetization numbers and these corporations won’t stop until every man woman and child has been exploited

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@homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2026-01-08 14:53

well, and this guy may do that, but I think he's calling out all the millions of parents who don't know how to do that. You're talking about a vast swath of the population that has literally no idea what any of their passwords are. Or what to do when they don't work.

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@AA5B@lemmy.world 2026-01-08 15:07

They do exist, and start with block all apps. I used one such on my kids iPhones. There were a few features of value but notably I cared more about preventing excessive use or staying up all night. I do start with blocking by default but opened things up on demand. You could argue that feature wasn’t useful but at least it made me think about things before I allowed them. Now that they’re young adults I obviously don’t have parental controls but it’s also worse in some ways. For both Amazon and apple I’m forced to have my credit card on file in order to use family sharing, but now that they’ve aged out of parental controls my reedit card is too easy to accidentally use You can’t protect them from the internet, the best you can hope for is to ease them in with guidance and hope they’ve learned enough to protect themselves

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