I’m currently setting up a windows 11 machine for a kid and want to make sure that their traffic is easily monitored. I’ve debloated much of it. Normally, I’d get rid of Edge and put on Firefox. But I noticed that Microsoft Family has the ability to monitor website usage.

I was wondering if there’s similar functionality with Firefox or Chrome.

I’m most familiar with the iOS parental toolkit.

Finally, I want to let him have some access to some games, but I don’t want him to purchase any games yet. I’m open to suggestions to getting this aspect locked in as well. I was just going to mimic my set up with Playnite. But I haven’t really dug into it yet.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    29 days ago

    Just installed Timekpr-next on my children’s Linux machines. Helps in controlling their screen time a little.

    Apart from that we just talk regularly and use Steam Family to control the games they can install. And for non-Steam games they ask me anyways. And they also want to talk about games, even dicey ones. I might be special, but I also let them play GTA. They mostly use it to drive around anyways. The occasional explosion is nice to look at. To create mayhem they usually go with Goat Simulator anyways.

    Discord and Roblox are much more problematic. Though one kid already uses Discord to chat with his friends. We have regular chats about chatting on other servers.

    Minecraft seems to be good for now apart from some griefers. But I guess you should be as careful with that as with other games and services that allow chatting.

    • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      29 days ago

      Cheers! Robolox is a no go for now. Minecraft is okay, but only for friends that he knows in real life.

      But I agree, discussions and trust are the most important. I monitor so he doesn’t stumble upon anything and if he does, we can have a discussion.