is Linux mint safe from stuff like bark? my parents have been considering setting it up and well I’ve got some….ahem not great stuff on it (links to .onion sites) am I ok? I also use proton vpn
Basically what the title says. Iphone Screen Time was applied w/o me knowing and now I can't delete my previous search or website history. We share an apple ID, but there's no option to disable Screen Time from my phone. I also worry that disabling screen time briefly to delete it all will send some sort of mass notification or something if I manage to access it on another device. There's websites I've visited that, if they decided to look into what exactly I was looking at there using the suggested search, would probably definitely get me in a metric-fuck-ton of trouble (putting it lightly). I just need to disable it so I can delete my history and the re-enable it, then I'll be good. Any advice please?
I have a 3yo and 5yo and weekends are becoming chaos every single time i let them use the ipad.
It always starts peacefully then suddenly one wants “5 more minutes”, the other starts crying, then they both want the same game/video at the same time and somehow i end up negotiating like a hostage mediator 😂
I tried timers but the transition feels brutal. especially for the younger one when the ipad suddenly gets taken away.
I started looking for apps that focus more on fair sharing / taking turns peacefully but honestly all i find are heavy parental control apps, blocking apps, tracking apps etc
Maybe im searching wrong but i cant find something simple made specifically for siblings sharing one device
Does anyone know an app for this ?
otherwise im seriously starting to think about building one myself lol
Basically my son's getting an iPhone mini 13 for his birthday. I'm an android user no access to any apple products. So as you can imagine im struggling and never used a. Apple device in my life...
But how do you set up parental controls? I want to limit what apps he have/install. Approve apps ect... See what websites he uses or searches. Preferably remotely. But most importantly see his location.
On his current android I have Norton, Life360 and Google family link and it seems to cover everything.
When I've added his new apple account on the phone, and tried to enable screen time. There's no option to enable a password/pin.
Any suggestions?
my dad out of nowhere decided to install qustodio on my phone, even tho i did nothing wrong, he says, "because you're too young", long time ago we used to have ipads (until the iphone 6 release since the screen was bigger than before) and 90% of the time i didn't have supervision, same as my pc, my mum thinks im too stupid and an 40 year old man would send me d pics, but let's get into something.... "Who fixes the wifi everytime it goes down?" Me!, "Who fixed Moms computer more than twice?" Me!, i Have around 11 years of experience (most likely 6 years ago, since the most advanced thing i could do was doing stuff with the ipad or pluging micro usb cables) my parents gave me a phone a year ago, and the just decided to install qustodio, i ask my dad why and the only thing he says is "ok then give me your phone and i'll stop paying your cellular data" i've vulnerated it a couple times but he's now saying that if i do it one more time he'll take my phone away, and also he says i'll have it UNTIL I AM 18 (wich is in 4 years btw) what can i do?
"settings --> general -->transfer or reset iphone --> erase all content and settings --> continue --> (if option keep eSIM and Erase Data) -->put your password in --> brute force the screen time password. " This doesn't work anymore as it locks you out if you get it wrong too many times, are there any other bypasses? For example does turning the phone off and on again 12 times still work?
We have set up Apple screen time app limits on our son’s devices.
Everything works fine as expected on his iPad and iPhone but on the MacBook and for Roblox only the app limit is not working.
The Roblox icon shows as greyed out in the hot bar but it doesn’t actually block the app.
I have tried resetting all limits from the MacBook itself, restart, etc - nothing seems to fix this
Sorry if a bit too technical but was hoping some parents have dealt with the same issue. I've got 2 children, 14 & 12. When we travel as a family, they always use their iPads on hotel WiFi.
Is it safe for them to use as is? I’ve seen people recommend VPNs, but I’m not sure what that really covers. From what I understand, VPN can hide your IP, but it doesn’t fully protect devices on shared networks.
So is hotel WiFi generally safe for kids? Is a VPN enough, or are there other things I should be doing?
Would appreciate any advice.
Hi, what app would you recommend to control a child’s iPhone, but a parent has an android. What I’m looking for in the app is a current child’s location and blocking a specific app. I know that it is easy to bypass it, but for now It doesn’t really matter that much
My 7 year-old is asking for a smartwatch since her friends have them but I dont want to give her full smartphone access
Hi I’m 19f and live on my own now with my own devices but I would like to share my story.
When I was 13 I got my first phone and my mom immediately put controls on it. At first I didn’t think much of it because I was struggling with mental health so I would understand why. I started talking to my friends about my mental health and apparently my mom could read all my messages. She barged into my room one night screaming at me saying I had no reason to feel like I did, and to stop making her sound like a bad mom. It got to the point I couldn’t ask people for help or I would get yelled at. By the time I was 16 my phone was still locked at 8:30 pm. I was tired of not being able to talk about my problems and I felt stuck. I ended up getting a second phone and kept it hidden, made all new accounts for everything, etc. at 17 my mom found out that I had a second phone and she was so mad that she didn’t have control and hit me. When I fought back she called the cops saying I attacked her and I got arrested. In the state I live in you can’t be charged as an adult at 17. I was in jail for two months before my grandmother bailed me out because my mom wasn’t going to. I was in there with murders waiting to go to prison. Parental controls genuinely fucked up my life as the kid who had them on their phone.
Can anyone help how I can change my region or i-p address which I can access restricted apps easily please help me guys
Hi everyone, I just found this sub while searching for a solution...maybe someone can help me.
The situation: my nephew has a new PC , and wants to play some games. He needs to enter a PIN for games that have an age restriction...which his mom forgot. So...how do we reset this? It seems to be a Microsoft family thing. I never used that.
The games in question are No Man's sky and Hogwarts Legacy, which seem ok for a 13 year old??
I was wondering if there’s a way to get around my Wi-Fi restrictions. I thought about using a MAC address changer which might work, especially since I’m on a router system like a Gryphon setup, but I’m not sure if that’s actually effective. My situation is that I mostly need internet access for research and studying. My parents are very religious and don’t really support or allow information outside of Christianity (IFB), which makes it difficult for me to access educational material. (Like gender roles in our society, studies in different cultures including other religions, and my favorite which my mother disagrees on "why women don't need to wear only skirts")
I’m almost an adult 19 turning 20 soon, and will likely move out within a year or two, so I just need a temporary solution that allows me to continue learning and doing research. I’ve considered using tools like a MAC address changer or VPNs, but I’m not sure what actually works or if there’s a better way to access resources like Wikipedia for educational resources offline. And can they see what I a doing offline? Since I have a lot of book PDFs. I am not asking to hack anything just if MAC/VPN would work?
Firstly this app breaks family relationships and make kids sad and stressed. Those three founders thought it would be a ”brilliant” idea to make a parental control app thingy and make it a product and charge ridiculous prices for their plan like 90 USD. They think that they are “protecting children from the online world” but in fact the earn money through breaking family relationships and making kids sad, how mean.
This app is like an online spy, the parent side can see basically everything and that’s privacy issues. The parent can see what the kid did basically live, which is more like dark web. According to United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CDC) article 16, it states that “no child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with their privacy, family, home, or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on their honor and reputation”. This means that Qustodio may already broke United Nations rules, which is absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable.
So if you are a parent trying to find a parental control app DO NOT use Qustodio and instead use other ones such as the Apple one or just don’t add it.
The conclusion for parents is: if you want to be happy with your kids, don’t add controls to their devices, or you will regret it.
My son (15)has sensibly suggested he be allowed unlimited time on certain websites that he uses for school homework (like sparx maths) but has an hour limit for general browsing/ you tube. I want to support this collaborative discussion we had and help him manage his screen time sensibly but I can’t see that I can deliver this through Microsoft family safety app. Is there a way to do this?
Whenever I talked with my parents, they would always say: "We're doing this because we care about you and want to protect you." Honestly, I feel like I still get confused about the boundary between parental control and protection.
I know there are many apps that allow parents to monitor what their kids are watching on social media, which is surveillance of children's online behaviors. Then kids have no privacy on the internet. This is definitely parental control. But if the initial purpose of an app is to protect kids' online safety and digital well-being. Parents just set the tasks and rewards for the kids' screentime without detecting the content the kids are watching. When there are any unusual activities identified from kids' digital patterns, parents would be encouraged to communicate with their kids. Is this still a form of parental control? Or does protection become control only when trust disappears?
Parents, kids, I'd love to hear your perspectives on this?
I've been through Qustodio, Bark, and Norton Family over the past year and a half trying to find something that actually works for my kids (10 and 13). Each one had issues — Qustodio kept logging my daughter out, Bark was sending me alerts about every meme my son saw, and Norton just felt like it was from 2015.
Last month a friend at work mentioned an app called Defenras. Canadian company apparently. I was skeptical because I'd never heard of it but the price was reasonable so I tried it.
Honestly it's been working better than the others. The thing I actually like is it blocks stuff at the DNS level, so it works in every browser — not just Chrome or whatever. My older one used to switch to Firefox to get around our old app and that doesn't work anymore.
Also they claim they don't collect any browsing data which I was suspicious about, but I checked the privacy policy and it actually does look like they don't. No data being sent to servers. That made me feel better about putting it on my kids' phones.
Not perfect — I wish it had geofencing, and the parent dashboard is pretty basic. But for what we needed (blocking adult content, gambling sites, and some specific apps), it works.
Anyone else used it? Curious what other parents think. Or if there's something better I haven't tried.
i have windows 11 and there are two wifi networks at my house and idk how to get past them. i’m pretty sure if not one then both of them are timed restrictions but i js wanna play some games bro like 😭🙏
Hii! I never had family link or parental controls myself, but my girlfriend does, she turns 18 in a few months, still has family link and her parents said that they wont enable her phone ever -- she has to buy herself a new one if she wants to get rid of it. She told me she could delete her google account and stuff but then would lose everything on the phone, so she doesnt wants to. The problem with buying a new phone is that its not exactly affordable for any of us now since we pay for our medical expenses ourselves and arent really financially supported by parents outside stuff like food, while still being in school.
Soo i wanted to ask is there a way to disable it from a device??? Idk contacting the support or whatever? Thanks in advance!