Comments on: How adult books ended up on my young son’s Kindle http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2013/01/04/how-adult-books-ended-up-on-my-young-sons-kindle/ Blogging in the real world Tue, 21 May 2013 15:03:10 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: James Bassett http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2013/01/04/how-adult-books-ended-up-on-my-young-sons-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1029205 James Bassett Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:08:41 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=59002#comment-1029205 The same thing happens with Google Play. I've found it is safer and easier to manage if you just set them up with their own account. It also stops them making in-game purchases on your credit card! Set up a brand new account, make sure you turn on content filtering (with Android this applies to youtube as well as the Play store) and DON'T assign a payment method to the account. That seems to have worked pretty well for us so far. The only issue I've discovered is that the content filtering in YouTube isn't great. It relies on others flagging the content. However, content can't be flagged from any of the apps (android, Wii etc) even though the flag button is present. You just get a message telling you to go to the website and flag it from there. The same thing happens with Google Play. I’ve found it is safer and easier to manage if you just set them up with their own account. It also stops them making in-game purchases on your credit card! Set up a brand new account, make sure you turn on content filtering (with Android this applies to youtube as well as the Play store) and DON’T assign a payment method to the account. That seems to have worked pretty well for us so far. The only issue I’ve discovered is that the content filtering in YouTube isn’t great. It relies on others flagging the content. However, content can’t be flagged from any of the apps (android, Wii etc) even though the flag button is present. You just get a message telling you to go to the website and flag it from there.

]]> By: Simon Mitchell http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2013/01/04/how-adult-books-ended-up-on-my-young-sons-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1029103 Simon Mitchell Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:49:10 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=59002#comment-1029103 "but the result of the child’s account being linked with my Amazon account" "During research for a feature on online porn and child protection" Yes, yes, I can certainly see this scenario being repeated up and down the country. Won't Amazon please think of the children? “but the result of the child’s account being linked with my Amazon account”

“During research for a feature on online porn and child protection”

Yes, yes, I can certainly see this scenario being repeated up and down the country.

Won’t Amazon please think of the children?

]]> By: Sarcen http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2013/01/04/how-adult-books-ended-up-on-my-young-sons-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1029052 Sarcen Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:27:33 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=59002#comment-1029052 That is the one downside of the Kindles, you have to have an active Amazon account (which has a payment method active - and one-click purchasing enabled) and as stated this tends to be the parents Amazon account. The parental controls while good should allow greater granularity. That is the one downside of the Kindles, you have to have an active Amazon account (which has a payment method active – and one-click purchasing enabled) and as stated this tends to be the parents Amazon account. The parental controls while good should allow greater granularity.

]]> By: David Wright http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2013/01/04/how-adult-books-ended-up-on-my-young-sons-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1028776 David Wright Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:29:21 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=59002#comment-1028776 What was Amazon's response, when asked why such material got through the parental controls? Are they working on a remedy? What was Amazon’s response, when asked why such material got through the parental controls?

Are they working on a remedy?

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