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Ofcom Begin Process of Imposing Age Verification on UK Internet Sites - ISPreview UK (www.ispreview.co.uk)
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[–] TheGrandNagus 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This stuff never works. And plenty of sites don't even implement the checks anyway.

I'm all for preventing kids from seeing harmful content, or being on social media at a young age, but these solutions are just plasters on an open wound.

I'm not saying it would be perfect, but it seems to me like routers should come with a QR code sticker on top that, during initial setup, will take you to a parental controls menu. One that should be vastly more idiot-proof than they currently are.

From there, people with kids can decide whether they want it on or not.

Will it prevent everything? Of course not! But it does place control in the parent's hands, makes it much simpler to understand, and doesn't come with data-handling plus privacy quandaries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Allow parents to implement DNS logging/blocking? I did this inadvertently where I used to live in a shared house at one point. Set the DNS settings of the routers DHCP to point to my pihole.

Then a few months later I realised when I looked at the logs when trying to diagnose an issue that I had logs of everyones DNS history. I needed a shower after glancing at that. Trivial to bypass if you know how to of course, but logging it instead of blocking it means you are less likely to realise at first while a block is obvious and you can go on to bypass it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Once again, nations think the internet have borders.