alt Hacker NewsTreating users like adults and allowing them full control over setting system capability and app launch restrictions on devices (and even implementing fully optional, widely blocking restrictions as "parental safety options") was the industry taking it seriously. You considering the freedom of choice to the user as disastrous and the lack of heavily restricted lockdowns by default as "refusal to take concerns seriously" is just a reflection on your attitudes about other people, not any real argument for improving privacy or safety. You ARE a morally panicked maniac if your only grossly offensive things you want to keep pretending are horrifying examples have absolutely nothing to do with the invasion of privacy of children and more to do with puritanical outrage on children accessing adult material.
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Except parents not being trained to really use it unless they look for it specifically.
> implementing fully optional, widely blocking restrictions as "parental safety options") was the industry taking it seriously
The myriad of settings, accessed differently on every site or service, that everyone needs to be aware of, and actively fight dysfunctional defaults and frequent "helpful" resets after updates, are not the solution parents or anyone else are looking for.
Why are the defaults set to favor the company, in a way that makes them real customer/user-targeted security holes that people have to play endless wack-a-mole to secure themselves?
That is industry taking plausible deniability and the monetizing potential of parasitical behavior at scale "seriously" indeed.