Here’s what I want: an off switch. A single setting that says “this child cannot go online, communicate with strangers, spend money, or download anything without my explicit permission.” Instead I get a maze, complex enough that when something goes wrong, I’m at fault for a tooltip I didn’t hover over, a blog post I didn’t read, a submenu I didn’t find. Maybe that’s by design. Maybe it’s neglect. I don’t know.
Agreed. And don’t even get me started on adding bucks to Nintendo and MSFT online accounts in whole integer amounts instead of the exact purchase price of said updates.
Quote Citation: beasthacker.com, “TIL: Parental controls aren’t for parents – Beast Hacker”, 2026-01-02, https://beasthacker.com/til/parental-controls-arent-for-parents.html