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We are worried about children being compromised. This is as much about data getting into their heads as it is about basic exfiltration.


That is still out of scope. And as parents you have to accept that you cannot keep control of everything. Your child might see stuff in the streets, might see stuff on someone else's device for which you weren't prepared, or find ways to circumvent any limitation you put to his life.

And being educated != being in jail.


Oh sure, kind of like we adults cannot keep control of everything, like secret browser loopholes. Hey, one dev parent's scope is another dev parent's creep!

But honestly, maybe re-read the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

These are parental controls. They aren't working in this one specific way. That's. The. Scope.


scope related to security risk. The device and its data are not being compromised by the kid escaping to a browser.




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