alt Hacker NewsWhat for? I use family link for my kids devices. It works good enough. Everything else seems way too intrusive.
Apple is horrible in this regard. Their solutions never really work.
A joint venture for an (optional) cross-platform family app would be more than enough. This, plus a (voluntary) content rating that's offered via an API (could even be simple meta data on a webpage). Done.
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the answer, as always, is always a protocol.
the major players need to allow me to elect one of them as my family manager, and control permissions across ecosystems, from my management portal. i should be able to freely swap apple, google, microsoft, facebook, or a startup as my management and permissions tool.
instead I have a disparate management account and portal for every service on the planet. roblox, fortnite, facebook all want to appear to "make it easy" as if they hold the delusional belief that their management portal is the only one I have to manage. then add a spouse that also wants to change or tinker a setting.
if any law is going to get passed: it should be that any company over a certain size, who adds parental controls, needs to expose them externally to 3rd party management software.
Nice. How does pornhub.com "verify" your age when accessing it from your family computer's Ububtu account "my kids account"?
Oh, there is no config to retrieve, no We API to speak to.
"I'm 18 or older"-button it is. Is that a workable solution?