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How do parents even handle kids' internet access now? Do they just let them do whatever or have kid filters on all over the place (that the kids probably get around anyway)?
I'm not sure kids (and regular non-tech-savvy people in general) even really "browse" the internet in this fashion anymore - they just stick to a small set of sites (and apps on their phones), like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other big platforms like that, and very rarely go outside of them. So you have filters in the sense that these platforms are ostensibly moderated, but a lot of parents don't really pay much attention, which is how you get various incidents where kids are left to just fuck around on their phones and tablets with no supervision for hours, and end up spending hundreds of dollars on microtransactions in some shitty mobile game, without understanding what they're doing.
If you know what you're doing you can lock down a phone's ability to do anything without a parent's password - but then again if the kid knows what they're doing they can factory reset the phone and disable that stuff.
You can go the DARE route and try to scare them but it won’t work. You can wait until they’re in college to give them their own devices lol.
There needs to be some security feature that looks like the internet is broken or gives some 404 error. Right now every filter tool I can think of will explicitly state the brand of the software or have some warning message which makes it easier to go around. If you have a generic “unable to connect” message then it would be almost impossible for the kid to diagnose the problem and they’ll just have to rely on random proxy sites which ideally wouldn’t work either
My moms manage my younger siblings at the access level. Screen time is limited to a couple hours per day max, no creating social media accounts, parental controls activated on all devices (so no adding apps or visiting websites that a parent hasn't greenlit). I'm sure a sufficiently motivated and computer-minded kid could get past all of this (I did when my mom tried it on me as a teen lmao) but none of my siblings are really interested in computers at all beyond watching Kids Youtube / Netflix and texting friends so their system has never truly been tested.
How do parents even handle kids' internet access now? Do they just let them do whatever or have kid filters on all over the place (that the kids probably get around anyway)?
I'm not sure kids (and regular non-tech-savvy people in general) even really "browse" the internet in this fashion anymore - they just stick to a small set of sites (and apps on their phones), like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other big platforms like that, and very rarely go outside of them. So you have filters in the sense that these platforms are ostensibly moderated, but a lot of parents don't really pay much attention, which is how you get various incidents where kids are left to just fuck around on their phones and tablets with no supervision for hours, and end up spending hundreds of dollars on microtransactions in some shitty mobile game, without understanding what they're doing.
If you know what you're doing you can lock down a phone's ability to do anything without a parent's password - but then again if the kid knows what they're doing they can factory reset the phone and disable that stuff.
You can go the DARE route and try to scare them but it won’t work. You can wait until they’re in college to give them their own devices lol.
There needs to be some security feature that looks like the internet is broken or gives some 404 error. Right now every filter tool I can think of will explicitly state the brand of the software or have some warning message which makes it easier to go around. If you have a generic “unable to connect” message then it would be almost impossible for the kid to diagnose the problem and they’ll just have to rely on random proxy sites which ideally wouldn’t work either
That’s basically how blacklisted sites in my pihole behave.
My moms manage my younger siblings at the access level. Screen time is limited to a couple hours per day max, no creating social media accounts, parental controls activated on all devices (so no adding apps or visiting websites that a parent hasn't greenlit). I'm sure a sufficiently motivated and computer-minded kid could get past all of this (I did when my mom tried it on me as a teen lmao) but none of my siblings are really interested in computers at all beyond watching Kids Youtube / Netflix and texting friends so their system has never truly been tested.
then its a learning experience for them, plus side